Bug 394680

Summary: Add notification popup when NetworkManager fails
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: dan <danpharrell>
Component: Networks widgetAssignee: Jan Grulich <jgrulich>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: jgrulich
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: master   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description dan 2018-05-25 19:42:02 UTC 
I clean installed kubuntu and tried to add a vpnc vpn connection and all my settings are correct, but nothing happens when I click connect on the vpn in the 'networks' popup from the taskbar.


The problem is that I hadn't installed vpnc yet. But I only knew this because I know the command 'journalctl -u NetworkManager.service'.  I think there should be a notification or something from the Networks popup that at least reports something along those lines instead of just doing nothing.


last line of 'journalctl -u NetworkManager.service':


May 25 12:25:10 lappytappy NetworkManager[866]: <info>  [1527276310.8979] audit: op="connection-activate" uuid="0940d836-8d01-459f-907d-59c67b9d8619" name="my_vpn" pid=23878 uid="0940d836-8d01-459f-907d-59c67b9d8619" name="cyrus_science" pid=23878 uid=1000 result="fail"  reason="The VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc' was not installed."
Comment 1 Jan Grulich 2018-05-28 06:58:22 UTC 
I'll try to fix this for Plasma 5.14. I now noticed there are appstream metadata installed for each NM-vpn plugin so we can use it for checking their existence like we do in case of our vpn plugins.
Comment 2 Jan Grulich 2018-05-28 09:56:23 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 390133 ***
Comment 3 Ben Cooksley 2024-12-23 18:26:00 UTC 
Bulk transfer as requested in T17796