Bug#1001461: network-manager-openconnect: doesn't have a VPN tab to configure the VPN gateway

[Tomas Pospisek]

Package: network-manager-openconnect
Version: 1.2.6-1
Severity: important

Hi,

after installing network-manager-openconnect there's no VPN tab in the
configuration dialog and so I can't enter the VPN gateway address
anywhere to set up the VPN connection.

I did restart NM via

sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager

and I did also restart the nm-applet via

killall nm-applet; nohup nm-applet &

but no luck.

What I do:

* click on the applet
* click on "VPN Connections"
* click on "Add a VPN connection..."
* select "Cisco AnyConnect or openconnect (OpenConnect)" (I can also
select Juniper, PaloAlto or Pulse - there won't be a VPN tab in either
case)
* click on "Create..."
* the config dialog is shown
* only "General", "Proxy", "IPv4 Settings", "IPv6 Settings" tabs are shown
* there's no place I found to enter the VPN gateway
* also whatever I do in that dialog, the "Save" button is always greyed
out

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.1
APT prefers stable-security
APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_CH:de
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages network-manager-openconnect depends on:
ii adduser 3.118
ii libc6 2.31-13+deb11u2
ii libglib2.0-0 2.66.8-1
ii libnm0 1.30.0-2
ii libopenconnect5 8.10-2+b1
ii network-manager 1.30.0-2
ii openconnect 8.10-2+b1

network-manager-openconnect recommends no packages.

network-manager-openconnect suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

[Tomas Pospisek]

Package: network-manager-openconnect
Version: 1.2.6-1
Followup-For: Bug #1001461

When I try to a VPN connection by executing `nm-connection-editor`,
after pressing the button "Create..." I see in the console:

** (nm-connection-editor:27682): WARNING **: 15:31:07.165: Could not load editor VPN plugin for ?org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openconnect? (missing plugin file "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/NetworkManager/libnm-vpn-plugin-openconnect-editor.so").
(nm-connection-editor:27682): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 15:31:07.165: gtk_widget_get_parent: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
(nm-connection-editor:27682): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 15:31:07.165: g_object_set_data: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
(nm-connection-editor:27682): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 15:31:07.165: gtk_notebook_insert_page: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (child)' failed
(nm-connection-editor:27682): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 15:31:07.166: gtk_widget_set_sensitive: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
(nm-connection-editor:27682): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 15:31:07.167: gtk_widget_set_sensitive: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
(nm-connection-editor:27682): libnm-CRITICAL **: 15:31:07.167: ((libnm/nm-vpn-editor.c:49)): assertion '<dropped>' failed
** Message: 15:31:07.167: Cannot save connection due to error: Invalid setting VPN: unspecified error
(nm-connection-editor:27682): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 15:31:07.167: gtk_widget_set_sensitive: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
(nm-connection-editor:27682): libnm-CRITICAL **: 15:31:07.191: ((libnm/nm-vpn-editor.c:49)): assertion '<dropped>' failed
(nm-connection-editor:27682): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 15:31:07.191: gtk_widget_set_sensitive: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
(nm-connection-editor:27682): libnm-CRITICAL **: 15:31:07.191: ((libnm/nm-vpn-editor.c:49)): assertion '<dropped>' failed
(nm-connection-editor:27682): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 15:31:07.191: gtk_widget_set_sensitive: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
(nm-connection-editor:27682): libnm-CRITICAL **: 15:31:07.210: ((libnm/nm-vpn-editor.c:49)): assertion '<dropped>' failed
(nm-connection-editor:27682): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 15:31:07.210: gtk_widget_set_sensitive: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

when I search for
`/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/NetworkManager/libnm-vpn-plugin-openconnect-editor.so`
I see that it is in the package network-manager-openconnect-gnome.

Since I am running Xfce it is not self-evident that I have
to install a package that says that it is for Gnome.

So I think that it'd be optimal to:

* add a note to the package description saying:
"you'll probably need the network-manager-openconnect-gnome
package as well, if you want to manage the connections from
the GUI"
* maybe add a "Suggests: network-manager-openconnect-gnome"
to the package?
* and the nm-applet should not fail silently if it doesn't
find an editor component, but instead it should say so:
"I could not find the VPN editor component. Did you install
the network-manager-openconnect-gnome package?"

*t