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After Network manager update, i am not able to connect PPP VPNs

Asked by jmedeiros

Hi,
after update the the Network Manager (made earlier from the main Ubuntu server), all my PPTP VPNs connections fails with the following error:

Jun 4 01:54:34 marinmedeiros-laptop NetworkManager: <info> Starting VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp'...
Jun 4 01:54:34 marinmedeiros-laptop NetworkManager: <info> VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp' started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp), PID 11831
Jun 4 01:54:34 marinmedeiros-laptop NetworkManager: <info> VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp' just appeared, activating connections
Jun 4 01:54:34 marinmedeiros-laptop NetworkManager: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 3
Jun 4 01:54:34 marinmedeiros-laptop NetworkManager: <info> VPN connection 'F2C' (Connect) reply received.
Jun 4 01:54:34 marinmedeiros-laptop pppd[11834]: Plugin /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.4/nm-pptp-pppd-plugin.so is for pppd version 2.4.4, this is 2.4.5
Jun 4 01:54:34 marinmedeiros-laptop NetworkManager: <info> VPN plugin failed: 0
Jun 4 01:54:34 marinmedeiros-laptop NetworkManager: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 6
Jun 4 01:54:34 marinmedeiros-laptop NetworkManager: <info> VPN plugin state change reason: 10

Then I listed the contents from /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.4:

total 76K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2009-06-04 01:50 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K 2009-06-04 01:45 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15K 2009-06-02 10:12 nm-pppd-plugin.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30K 2008-12-27 04:00 nm-pptp-pppd-plugin.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2K 2008-12-27 04:00 nm-pptp-pppd-plugin.la
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15K 2008-12-27 04:00 nm-pptp-pppd-plugin.so

And I listed the conents from /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.5:

total 220K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2009-06-03 08:25 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K 2009-06-04 01:45 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.0K 2009-06-02 09:07 minconn.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15K 2009-06-02 10:12 nm-pppd-plugin.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9.9K 2009-06-02 09:07 openl2tp.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11K 2009-06-02 09:07 passprompt.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.0K 2009-06-02 09:07 passwordfd.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11K 2009-06-02 09:07 pppoatm.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15K 2009-06-02 09:07 pppol2tp.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.9K 2009-06-02 09:07 radattr.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 53K 2009-06-02 09:07 radius.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15K 2009-06-02 09:07 radrealms.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27K 2009-06-02 09:07 rp-pppoe.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15K 2009-06-02 09:07 winbind.so

If someone can help me.

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jari (jaript) said : 		#1

Try to update network-manager-pptp also.

sudo apt-get install network-manager-pptp

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jmedeiros (jutay-medeiros) said : 		#2

Hi,
thank you for your response but this is already the newest version:

root@marinmedeiros-laptop:~# apt-get install network-manager-pptp
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
network-manager-pptp is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

The installed version is 0.7-0ubuntu1~nm1. There are 2 forced versions availables:

0.7~~svn20081015t024626-0ubuntu1.8.10.1 (intrepid-updates)
0.7~~svn20081015t024626-0ubuntu1.8.10.1 (intrepid)

Thank you

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André Restivo (andre-restivo) said : 		#3

Hi,

I had the same problem. Downgrading pppd to 2.4.4 solved it but I'm not exactly happy with the solution.

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jari (jaript) said : 		#4

Hmm. Are you guys using Intrepid or Jaunty? Intrepid supposedly has ppp 2.4.4 and a corresponding pptp, while Jaunty has 2.4.5. At least according to packages.ubuntu.com....

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jmedeiros (jutay-medeiros) said : 		#5

Hi Jari,
i am using intrepid, i have just updated the Intrepid through Update Manager and ... surprise!!!! I am not able to connect VPNs from my clients.

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André Restivo (andre-restivo) said : 		#6

I'm using intrepid but I have the this PPA (http://ppa.launchpad.net/network-manager/ubuntu/) in my sources.list. My guess is that with the default network-manager installation that comes with intrepid the problem doesn't happen.

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jmedeiros (jutay-medeiros) said : 		#7

Hi Andre,
how can I re-install the older version (2.4.4), or rollback to this older version?
Thank you.

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Best André Restivo (andre-restivo) said : 		#8

Go to synaptic, search for ppp and highlight that package. Then hit Ctrl+E or use Package -> Force Version in the menu. Choose the intrepid-updates version and then apply changes.

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jmedeiros (jutay-medeiros) said : 		#9

Thank you Andre.
It solved my problem

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jmedeiros (jutay-medeiros) said : 		#10

Thanks André Restivo, that solved my question.

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prakash (pbahumanyam) said : 		#11

I am running the latest version of ubuntu desktop, and "Force version".

Prakash
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André Restivo said on 2009-06-04:

Go to synaptic, search for ppp and highlight that package. Then hit Ctrl+E or use Package -> Force Version in the menu. Choose the intrepid-updates version and then apply changes.
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prakash (pbahumanyam) said : 		#12

I meant "Force Version" is grayed out in Synaptic.
Prakash

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olekina@gmail.com (olekina) said : 		#13

I am new to ubuntu. I was in the process of updating the Ubuntu8.4 I have in my laptop when it connected to the network but it will not brows. Any solutions?