Bug 708429

Summary: VPN not working (no connection possible)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Sebastian Krämer <skr>
Component: NetworkManager-vpncAssignee: Dan Williams <dcbw>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Sebastian Krämer 2011-05-27 15:50:04 UTC
Description of problem:
VPN connections used to work rather well for me with NetworkManager. With F15 however, something broke. I'm using nm-applet. The VPN connections are available in the context menu, but when I choose (click) one, there is only a short indication of connection-making by an animated icon, then it turn back to the standard icon. No connection was made, no error message by the notification daemon.
Dmesg has the following though:
[37806.617575] NetworkManager[2352]: <info> Starting VPN service 'vpnc'...
[37806.624654] NetworkManager[2352]: <info> VPN service 'vpnc' started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc), PID 2462
[37806.700086] NetworkManager[2352]: <info> VPN service 'vpnc' appeared; activating connections
[37806.709458] NetworkManager[2352]: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 1
[37807.082304] NetworkManager[2352]: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 3
[37807.082401] NetworkManager[2352]: <info> VPN connection 'VPN RWTH (Full tunnel)' (Connect) reply received.
[37807.082431] NetworkManager[2352]: <warn> VPN connection 'VPN RWTH (Full tunnel)' failed to connect: 'No VPN secrets!'.
[37807.083652] NetworkManager[2352]: <warn> error disconnecting VPN: Could not process the request because no VPN connection was active.
[37807.084545] NetworkManager[2352]: <info> Policy set 'Auto Fritz!Box Eva' (wlan0) as default for IPv4 routing and DNS.
[37812.007777] NetworkManager[2352]: <info> VPN service 'vpnc' disappeared

I don't get the "no vpn secrets" message. It appears that the vpn login data is still there, and it did work before.

No idea if it can be related to #699786. Anyway, I tried the update without luck.

Comment 1 Sebastian Krämer 2011-05-27 20:12:47 UTC
Well, after a reboot it appears to be working now.. I'll keep an eye on it.

Comment 2 Kevin Johnson 2011-06-06 14:32:53 UTC
I'm receiving the same behavior.  Using plane networkManager-vpnc:


NetworkManager-openvpn-0.8.999-1.fc15.x86_64
vpnc-script-0.5.3-9.fc15.noarch
vpnc-0.5.3-9.fc15.x86_64
openvpn-2.1.4-1.fc15.x86_64
NetworkManager-vpnc-0.8.999-2.fc15.x86_64



When I try and connect I see this:


Jun  6 10:29:50 raykj NetworkManager[1173]: <info> VPN service 'vpnc' started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc), PID 9144
Jun  6 10:29:50 raykj kernel: [ 3754.236390] tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver, 1.6
Jun  6 10:29:50 raykj kernel: [ 3754.236392] tun: (C) 1999-2004 Max Krasnyansky <maxk>
Jun  6 10:29:50 raykj NetworkManager[1173]: <info> VPN service 'vpnc' appeared; activating connections
Jun  6 10:29:50 raykj NetworkManager[1173]: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 1
Jun  6 10:29:52 raykj NetworkManager[1173]: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 3
Jun  6 10:29:52 raykj NetworkManager[1173]: <info> VPN connection 'xxxx xxx' (Connect) reply received.
Jun  6 10:29:52 raykj NetworkManager[1173]: <warn> VPN connection 'xxxx xxx' failed to connect: 'No VPN secrets!'.
Jun  6 10:29:52 raykj NetworkManager[1173]: <warn> error disconnecting VPN: Could not process the request because no VPN connection was active.
Jun  6 10:29:52 raykj NetworkManager[1173]: <info> Policy set 'System eth0' (eth0) as default for IPv4 routing and DNS.
Jun  6 10:29:57 raykj NetworkManager[1173]: <info> VPN service 'vpnc' disappeared


I can re-create the VPN setting through the network manager and it works ONCE, but after I disconnect, I can not reconnect without re-creating the VPN profile.

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