Description of problem: I cannot get NetworkManager-vpnc to connect to my vpn. I have never been able to get nm-vpnc to work since installing F8 some time back (it was working back when I used F7) I have been connecting by directly running vpnc and putting my info in /etc/vpnc/default.conf I created a new vpn connection. When I try to launch it the first time it brought up the box asking for my password and group id. I enter both and told it to store them in the keyring. Checking in the keyring I am able to see that the passwords are correct. Now every time I try to start vpnc I get: Dec 27 14:28:12 localhost NetworkManager: <info> VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc' exec scheduled... Dec 27 14:28:12 localhost NetworkManager: <info> VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc' executed (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc), PID 3911 Dec 27 14:28:12 localhost NetworkManager: <info> VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc' just appeared, activating connections Dec 27 14:28:12 localhost NetworkManager: <info> VPN connection 'RedHat' (Connect) reply received. Dec 27 14:28:12 localhost kernel: tun0: Disabled Privacy Extensions Dec 27 14:28:13 localhost NetworkManager: <WARN> connection_state_changed(): Could not process the request because no VPN connection was active. NetworkManager-openvpn-0.7.0-2.svn3047.fc8 NetworkManager-vpnc-0.7.0-0.6.3.svn3109.fc8 NetworkManager-glib-0.7.0-0.6.6.svn3138.fc8 NetworkManager-gnome-0.7.0-0.6.6.svn3138.fc8 NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.6.6.svn3138.fc8
I see this as well. One note is that there is no process with the PID specified in the log (perhaps it's crashing?)
I'm seeing the same thing: Jan 17 16:38:18 fedora NetworkManager: <WARN> connection_state_changed(): Could not process the request because no VPN connection was active. I get this error only when using the networkmanager-vpnc tool. As soon as I click on the nm-applet > vpn connections > vpn_profile, the orange comet swirls around the nm-applet for about 2 seconds then just stops and nothing happens. I don't get prompted for a username/password. Only the error posted above gets logged. If I use vpnc via command line, that works perfectly fine. [root@fedora mozilla]# uname -a Linux fedora 2.6.23.9-85.fc8 #1 SMP Fri Dec 7 15:49:59 EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.6.6.svn3138.fc8 NetworkManager-vpnc-0.7.0-0.6.3.svn3109.fc8 NetworkManager-gnome-0.7.0-0.6.6.svn3138.fc8 vpnc-0.5.1-2.fc8 NetworkManager-vpnc-0.7.0-0.6.3.svn3109.fc8 # lspci |grep -i ether 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
well, i found my problem, my local username is paris but my vpn username is eparis. I went into the config program added the username override and NetworkManager-vpnc started working. If this is everyone else's problem this bugzilla should be changed to instead have some, even minimally useful, error reporting. A pop up bubble that says something, anything....
Good to hear, and the other problem reported here sounds like a duplicate of 331141 or 429287, so I'm going to close this bug.