[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] ppp 2.4.6 in testing breaks pptp connections in NetworkManager

[Arthur Țițeică]

În ziua de Duminică 23 Februarie 2014, la 10:39:36, Thomas Bächler a scris:
> Am 23.02.2014 08:42, schrieb Savyasachee Jha:
> > Whenever I try connecting to my university's VPN, the authentication
> > fails. Running systemctl status NetworkManager gives me the message:
> > 
> > Feb 23 16:06:06 Empire NetworkManager[285]: <info> Starting VPN service
> > 'pptp'... Feb 23 16:06:06 Empire NetworkManager[285]: <info> VPN service
> > 'pptp' started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp), PID 946 Feb 23
> > 16:06:06 Empire NetworkManager[285]: <info> VPN service 'pptp' appeared;
> > activating connections Feb 23 16:06:06 Empire NetworkManager[285]: <info>
> > VPN plugin state changed: starting (3) Feb 23 16:06:06 Empire
> > NetworkManager[285]: <info> VPN connection 'KUINS' (Connect) reply
> > received. Feb 23 16:06:06 Empire pppd[947]: Plugin
> > /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.5/nm-pptp-pppd-plugin.so is for pppd version 2.4.5,
> > this is 2.4.6 Feb 23 16:06:06 Empire NetworkManager[285]: <warn> VPN
> > plugin failed: 0 Feb 23 16:06:06 Empire NetworkManager[285]: <info> VPN
> > plugin state changed: stopped (6) Feb 23 16:06:06 Empire
> > NetworkManager[285]: <info> VPN plugin state change reason: 10
> > 
> > I went to /usr/lib/pppd and found 2 folders, 2.4.5 and 2.4.6. Should I
> > recompile networkmanager-pptp and pptpclient?
> The networkmanager, networkmanager-pptp and pppd-ldap-simple packages
> should probably be recompiled.
> 
> extra/networkmanager 0.9.8.8-1
> /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.5/nm-pppd-plugin.so
> extra/networkmanager-pptp 0.9.8.4-1
> /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.5/nm-pptp-pppd-plugin.so
> community/pppd-ldap-simple 0.12b-6
> /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.5/pppd_ldap_simple.so
> 
> (Good thing that anyone actually uses testing/ppp to notice these problems.)

I've seen these issues but I didn't have enough time to come to a sane 
conclusion in order to report it.

IIRC rp-pppoe in core has the same problem.

pppd[27117]: Plugin /usr/lib/rp-pppoe/rp-pppoe.so is for pppd version 2.4.5, 
this is 2.4.6

Bug report at: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/39007

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Arthur Țițeică
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