Bug 394680

Summary:	Add notification popup when NetworkManager fails
Product:	[Plasma] plasma-nm	Reporter:	dan <danpharrell>
Component:	applet	Assignee:	Jan Grulich <jgrulich>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	jgrulich
Priority:	NOR
Version:	master
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

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 ***