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So, at some point recently, VPN connection stopped working via nm-applet in Mate. Not entirely sure at what point it started, I dont use my VPN connection all that often. OpenVPN connects fine on its own, but when I try to connect via NetworkManager, I get the classic "The VPN Connection Failed because there were no valid VPN Secrets"
I have gotten this before and it was related to gnome-keyring. I don't think its the same this time. journalctl is showing the following error:
NetworkManager[375]: <error> [1429861241.801229] [vpn-manager/nm-vpn-connection.c:1899] get_secrets_cb(): Failed to request VPN secrets #2: (5) User canceled the secrets request.
In the past, when I saw this and when I search for this, its all about "(6) No agents were available for this request" and all of those are gnome-keyring related. Just to be sure, I have wiped out ~/.local/share/keyrings. It killed all of my keyring entries, but did nothing to fix this.
If I try to edit the VPN entry in nm-connection-editor (as user, works as root) I get "Error initializing editor. User canceled the secrets request." This is making me think I have something messed up for permissions somewhere. It doesn't seem to be in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections that the permissions problem lies.
I am not finding anything about this slightly different error I am getting. I can connect to the vpn with openvpn from command line fine, but I have grown weak and want my damned nm-applet connection to work. Any help or clues anyone can give is appreciated.
Last edited by jotterson (2015-04-29 18:12:51)
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I have the exact same issue.. If someone could help..
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seem it was a glibc issue, I fixed it by doing this http://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comme … ng/cqm1ogl
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Yep, that was it.
Thanks for finding that and getting back with it.
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I am having the same issue as OP. I installed intel-ucode as suggested but this has made no difference.
The only difference between me and OP is that I have never successfully used openVPN. I do have a working PPTP VPN connection via NetworkManager however.
I was not able to create the openVPN connection via the NetworkManager gui but I was able to create it using nmcli.
Do I need to manually setup Gnome Keyring? Extra/libgnome-keyring was already installed and I have installed extra/gnome-keyring as well.
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