Description of problem: cannot connect to strongswan vpn server use NetworkManager-strongswan-gnome Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): $ rpm -qa NetworkManager-strongswan\* NetworkManager-strongswan-1.4.3-2.el7.x86_64 NetworkManager-strongswan-gnome-1.4.3-2.el7.x86_64 Additional info: # journalctl -r Dec 25 23:50:47 nuc.sl.deveden.org NetworkManager[11458]: <warn> [1545753047.5458] vpn-connection[0x562828bc0560,bbb89bb4-674e-4d13-ad38-9d7d7ce43891,"bwh-ca",0]: Timed out waiting Dec 25 23:50:41 nuc.sl.deveden.org charon-nm[9543]: 00[DMN] initialization failed - aborting charon-nm Dec 25 23:50:41 nuc.sl.deveden.org charon-nm[9543]: 00[LIB] failed to load 1 critical plugin feature Dec 25 23:50:41 nuc.sl.deveden.org charon-nm[9543]: 00[LIB] feature CUSTOM:NetworkManager backend in critical plugin 'nm-backend' failed to load Dec 25 23:50:41 nuc.sl.deveden.org charon-nm[9543]: 00[CFG] DBUS binding failed Dec 25 23:50:41 nuc.sl.deveden.org charon-nm[9543]: Failed to initialize a plugin instance: Connection ":1.253" is not allowed to own the service "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.str Dec 25 23:50:41 nuc.sl.deveden.org charon-nm[9543]: 00[LIB] openssl FIPS mode(2) - enabled Dec 25 23:50:41 nuc.sl.deveden.org charon-nm[9543]: 00[DMN] Starting charon NetworkManager backend (strongSwan 5.7.1)
This package has changed maintainer in Fedora. Reassigning to the new maintainer of this component.
I am not sure it should fix your issues, but I am upgrading to a more recent version. Can you please retry with it, whether issues still remain?
FEDORA-EPEL-2021-7732dd9053 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 7. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2021-7732dd9053
FEDORA-EPEL-2021-7732dd9053 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 testing repository. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2021-7732dd9053 See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
FEDORA-EPEL-2021-7732dd9053 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.