#773612 network-manager: No valid IPv4 config information received (pptp), after connection established

Package:
network-manager
Source:
network-manager
Description:
network management framework (daemon and userspace tools)
Submitter:
Damjan
Date:
2014-12-20 20:21:07 UTC
Severity:
important
#773612#5
Date:
2014-12-20 20:16:13 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

Cannot establish VPN with pptp - any of the setting lead to the same result
(default/split route, only resources..., automatic DNS). However, these
settings do work on Ubuntu 12.04.

After pptp connection is established, NM refuses to add IPv4 settings, noting:
unspecific failure

Log snippets:
Dec 20 20:51:29 pico NetworkManager[659]: ** Message: nm-pptp-ppp-plugin:
(nm_phasechange): status 6 / phase 'authenticate'
Dec 20 20:51:29 pico NetworkManager[659]: ** Message: nm-pptp-ppp-plugin:
(get_credentials): passwd-hook, requesting credentials...
Dec 20 20:51:29 pico NetworkManager[659]: ** Message: nm-pptp-ppp-plugin:
(get_credentials): got credentials from NetworkManager-pptp
Dec 20 20:51:31 pico pppd[2661]: CHAP authentication succeeded
Dec 20 20:51:31 pico NetworkManager[659]: CHAP authentication succeeded
Dec 20 20:51:31 pico NetworkManager[659]: ** Message: nm-pptp-ppp-plugin:
(nm_phasechange): status 8 / phase 'network'
Dec 20 20:51:31 pico pppd[2661]: MPPE 128-bit stateless compression enabled
Dec 20 20:51:31 pico NetworkManager[659]: MPPE 128-bit stateless compression
enabled
Dec 20 20:51:32 pico pppd[2661]: local  IP address 192.168.221.2
Dec 20 20:51:32 pico pppd[2661]: remote IP address 192.168.221.1
Dec 20 20:51:32 pico pppd[2661]: primary   DNS address 192.168.204.14
Dec 20 20:51:32 pico pppd[2661]: secondary DNS address 192.168.204.237
Dec 20 20:51:32 pico NetworkManager[659]: local  IP address 192.168.221.2
Dec 20 20:51:32 pico NetworkManager[659]: remote IP address 192.168.221.1
Dec 20 20:51:32 pico NetworkManager[659]: primary   DNS address 192.168.204.14
Dec 20 20:51:32 pico NetworkManager[659]: secondary DNS address 192.168.204.237
Dec 20 20:51:32 pico NetworkManager[659]: ** Message: nm-pptp-ppp-plugin:
(nm_phasechange): status 9 / phase 'running'
Dec 20 20:51:32 pico NetworkManager[659]: ** Message: nm-pptp-ppp-plugin:
(nm_ip_up): ip-up event
Dec 20 20:51:32 pico NetworkManager[659]: ** Message: nm-pptp-ppp-plugin:
(nm_ip_up): sending Ip4Config to NetworkManager-pptp...
Dec 20 20:51:32 pico NetworkManager[659]: <info> VPN connection 'Berlin' (IP4
Config Get) reply received from old-style plugin.
Dec 20 20:51:32 pico NetworkManager[659]: <info> VPN Gateway: 212.144.118.2
Dec 20 20:51:32 pico NetworkManager[659]: <info> Tunnel Device: ppp0
Dec 20 20:51:32 pico NetworkManager[659]: <info> IPv4 configuration:
Dec 20 20:51:32 pico NetworkManager[659]: <info>   Internal Address:
192.168.221.2
Dec 20 20:51:32 pico NetworkManager[659]: <info>   Internal Prefix: 32
Dec 20 20:51:32 pico NetworkManager[659]: <info>   Internal Point-to-Point
Address: 192.168.221.1
Dec 20 20:51:32 pico NetworkManager[659]: <info>   Maximum Segment Size (MSS):
0
Dec 20 20:51:32 pico NetworkManager[659]: <info>   Static Route:
192.168.192.0/20   Next Hop: 192.168.204.113
Dec 20 20:51:32 pico NetworkManager[659]: <info>   Forbid Default Route: yes
Dec 20 20:51:32 pico NetworkManager[659]: <info>   Internal DNS: 192.168.204.12
Dec 20 20:51:32 pico NetworkManager[659]: <info>   Internal DNS:
192.168.204.237
Dec 20 20:51:32 pico NetworkManager[659]: <info>   DNS Domain: '(none)'
Dec 20 20:51:32 pico NetworkManager[659]: <info> No IPv6 configuration
Dec 20 20:51:32 pico NetworkManager[659]: <error> [1419105092.058788] [platform
/nm-linux-platform.c:1714] add_object(): Netlink error adding 192.168.192.0/20
via 192.168.204.113 dev ppp0 metric 1024 mss 0 src user: Unspecific failure
Dec 20 20:51:32 pico NetworkManager[659]: <warn> VPN connection 'Berlin' did
not receive valid IP config information.
Dec 20 20:51:32 pico pppd[2661]: Terminating on signal 15