Ubuntu
network-manager-pptp package

"VPN Connection Failed" when trying to connect from applet

Bug #287140 reported by Pavel Tcholakov
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: network-manager-pptp

I configured a VPN connection with a remote PPTP host name, username, and password. When I try to connect I get this error.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: network-manager-pptp 0.7~~svn20081015t024626-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: network-manager-pptp
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

Tags: apport-bug
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Pavel Tcholakov (pcholakov) wrote :
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Derwin McGeary (djm62) wrote :

I think I had the same problem, with the same version of the package: I downgraded to the previous version (in /var/cache/apt/archives) and the problem went away. If you run nm-applet from a terminal and try to connect, you should see that something is crashing (lots of output on terminal).

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