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martinc2

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Registered: 2011-09-23

Posts: 62

[SOLVED] Networkmanager 1.0.6-1: Can't connect to OpenVPN

Hi,

(solved with networkmanager-openvpn-1.0.6-2)

OpenVPN connections worked fine for me under previous versions of (qt)-NetworkManager, but now I get a message that the service can't be started.  The most likely cause seems to be

Aug 27 21:26:19 spork NetworkManager[523]: <warn>  VPN connection 'xxxxxxx' failed to connect: 'User 'nm-openvpn' not found, check NM_OPENVPN_USER.'.
Aug 27 21:26:19 spork NetworkManager[523]: <warn>  error disconnecting VPN: Could not process the request because no VPN connection was active.

However, I can't find any mention of nm-openvpn or NM_OPENVPN_USER online (and attempting to set the latter  to something sensible doesn't seem to help).  Does anyone know what's going on?

Ta

--mc

Last edited by martinc2 (2015-08-29 22:40:03)

naghmash

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Registered: 2015-08-27

Posts: 1

Re: [SOLVED] Networkmanager 1.0.6-1: Can't connect to OpenVPN

Same error. but i can connect through terminal by

sudo openvpn <.ovpn>

Last edited by naghmash (2015-08-27 21:43:24)

R00KIE

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Registered: 2008-09-14

Posts: 4,734

Re: [SOLVED] Networkmanager 1.0.6-1: Can't connect to OpenVPN

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/46124

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jugs

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Registered: 2007-12-05

Posts: 39

Re: [SOLVED] Networkmanager 1.0.6-1: Can't connect to OpenVPN

Yep broken for me, and everyone else. Not good.

klingt.net

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Registered: 2014-03-10

Posts: 25

Re: [SOLVED] Networkmanager 1.0.6-1: Can't connect to OpenVPN

AnAkkk provided a preliminary fix for the problem:

groupadd -r nm-openvpn
useradd -r -g nm-openvpn -d / -s /sbin/nologin -c "Default user for running openvpn spawned by NetworkManager" nm-openvpn

masolit

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Registered: 2013-12-24

Posts: 46

Re: [SOLVED] Networkmanager 1.0.6-1: Can't connect to OpenVPN

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Last edited by masolit (2019-12-03 16:10:11)

Ekaradon

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Registered: 2014-05-31

Posts: 44

Re: [SOLVED] Networkmanager 1.0.6-1: Can't connect to OpenVPN

Same issue here,  I do not get the same logs because it is accessed through KDE:

Aug 28 17:20:47 MyPC kde5-nm-connection-editor[9234]: QDBusObjectPath: invalid path ""
Aug 28 17:20:47 MyPC kde5-nm-connection-editor[9234]: plasma-nm: Item  "MyVPN" : active connection state changed to  0
Aug 28 17:20:47 MyPC kde5-nm-connection-editor[9234]: plasma-nm: Item  "MyVPN" : connection updated
Aug 28 17:20:47 MyPC kde5-nm-connection-editor[9234]: plasma-nm: Item  "MyVPN" : connection updated
Aug 28 17:20:47 MyPC kde5-nm-connection-editor[9234]: plasma-nm: Item  "MyVPN" : active connection removed
Aug 28 17:20:47 MyPC kde5-nm-connection-editor[9234]: plasma-nm: Checking VPN "MyVPN" type: "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn"

Solved with the solution above.

Last edited by Ekaradon (2015-08-28 15:28:07)

firecat53

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From: Lake Stevens, WA, USA

Registered: 2007-05-14

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Re: [SOLVED] Networkmanager 1.0.6-1: Can't connect to OpenVPN

Also solved with this morning's update (without any of the above solutions):

Name           : networkmanager-openvpn
Version        : 1.0.6-2

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