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sfbi

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From: Bergen

Registered: 2008-03-13

Posts: 36

"invalid vpn secrets" problem for networkmanager has driven me mad

The problem came out after the huge update (libpng/libjpeg) several days ago (but is probably not a problem caused by it). I was not able to start X after that update, and had no time to waste on the fixing, so I just tried to enable testing (though that did not help). And I found my networkmanager-pptp was updated.

The problem now is that I cannot use networkmanager to connect to the internet through vpn (pptp). An error message "... invalid vpn secrets" comes out every time. I tried different solutions, including:
1. delete and reconfigure the vpn settings
2. downgrade networkmanger and related packages
3. delete ~/.gnome2/keyrings
4. use gconf-editor to set "refuse-eap" somewhere
and several other dirty fixes, but all these did not bring the function back.

The laptop is useless without network and graphical tools. I am still suffering. Anybody can help me?

Last edited by sfbi (2010-02-05 14:43:28)

dex

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Registered: 2009-10-13

Posts: 11

Re: "invalid vpn secrets" problem for networkmanager has driven me mad

i also had this problem and was able to get it working again by removing networkmanager (plus packages depending on it) and upgrading to -git packages from aur:
network-manager-applet-git-20100212-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz 
networkmanager-pptp-git-20100212-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
networkmanager-git-20100212-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz

in short, i just used:

pacman -Rcs networkmanager
pacman -S gtk-doc  # (missing dependency for networkmanager-git)
yaourt -S networkmanager-pptp-git

Last edited by dex (2010-02-12 07:46:27)

Rodan

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Registered: 2010-02-12

Posts: 6

Re: "invalid vpn secrets" problem for networkmanager has driven me mad

Thanks a lot! This worked for me as well.

My VPN connection through networkmanager-pptp started failing this afternoon, with not enough secrets of some kind (it was still fine this morning). I also tried downgrading networkmanager and all its plug-ins, to no avail. The switch to git versions did not go that smoothly since I need a functional VPN connection to access the internet, and I did not have git installed.

barzam

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2009-01-27

Posts: 277

Re: "invalid vpn secrets" problem for networkmanager has driven me mad

Having the same problem, but I can live without VPN (Ipredator using the pptp protocol) for the time being. I hope this gets fixed in the 0.8 version.

Or maybe someone has a solution? I'm thinking something like this:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=88381