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0009080Kali LinuxGeneral Bugpublic2025-01-26 22:532025-12-23 07:32
Reporterwhoopsydoodle Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityhave not tried
Status closedResolutionopen 
Summary0009080: Unable to create Cisco Compatible VPN (vpnc) connection via Network Manager
Description

When trying to create a new Cisco Compatible VPN (vpnc) connection via Network Manager, there are no options presented on the VPN tab and the connection is also unable to be saved, rendering the ability to create a vpnc VPN connection via Network Manager unusable.

When running 'nm-connection-editor' as root via terminal, I get following two error messages:

  1. Could not load editor VPN plugin for “org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc” (cannot load factory nm_vpn_editor_factory_vpnc from plugin: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/NetworkManager/libnm-vpn-plugin-vpnc-editor.so: undefined symbol: nm_vpn_editor_factory_vpnc).

  2. gtk_widget_get_parent: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

Searching for similar issues reveals this has happened to users running Ubuntu and the general fix was to ensure that the 'network-manager-vpnc' and 'network-manager-vpnc-gnome' packages are installed. I have verified both packages are installed yet the issue persists.

I am experiencing this issue across both the pre-built VMware Kali image and the Kali AWS Cloud image, both running XFCE desktop (Kali GNU/Linux Rolling / 2024.4).

Network manager version info:
'network-manager' version: 1.50.1-1
'network-manager-vpnc' version: 1.4.0-1
'network-manager-gnome' version: 1.36.0-3+b1

Attached Files
nm_vpnc_no_options_no_save.PNG (16,134 bytes)   
nm_vpnc_no_options_no_save.PNG (16,134 bytes)   
nm-vpnc-error-message - Copy.PNG (134,520 bytes)   
nm-vpnc-error-message - Copy.PNG (134,520 bytes)   

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whoopsydoodle

whoopsydoodle

2025-01-27 02:59

reporter   ~0020295

After some additional testing it appears that this happens after running a dist-upgrade on the VMware image. I have not tested on the AWS cloud image. Doing additional testing on holding network-manager packages to isolate...
kali-bugreport

kali-bugreport

2025-01-27 12:16

reporter   ~0020297

Looks the packages are coming from Debian so is there a need to report to Debian or GNOME/Network Manager devs?
whoopsydoodle

whoopsydoodle

2025-01-27 15:42

reporter   ~0020299

Appears that holding back the network-manager-vpnc and network-manager-vpnc-gnome packages at least allowed the GUI to work. Will report this bug to network-manager devs.
g0tmi1k

g0tmi1k

2025-12-23 07:32

administrator   ~0021065

This report has been filed against an old version of Kali. We will be closing this ticket due to inactivity.

Please could you see if you are able to replicate this issue with the latest version of Kali Linux (https://www.kali.org/get-kali/)?

If you are still facing the same problem, feel free to re-open the ticket. If you choose to do this, could you provide more information to the issue you are facing, and also give information about your setup?
For more information, please read: https://www.kali.org/docs/community/submitting-issues-kali-bug-tracker/

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2025-01-26 22:53 whoopsydoodle New Issue
2025-01-26 22:53 whoopsydoodle File Added: nm_vpnc_no_options_no_save.PNG
2025-01-26 22:53 whoopsydoodle File Added: nm-vpnc-error-message - Copy.PNG
2025-01-27 02:59 whoopsydoodle Note Added: 0020295
2025-01-27 12:16 kali-bugreport Note Added: 0020297
2025-01-27 15:42 whoopsydoodle Note Added: 0020299
2025-12-23 07:32 g0tmi1k Note Added: 0021065
2025-12-23 07:32 g0tmi1k Status new => closed