Description of problem: If I use the Networkmanager applet to configure a new vpn connection I got the message that the required software is not installed. On F8 the same message appears, but after installing the packages openvpn and NetworkManager-openvpn I get the configuration dialog using F8. On F9 I installed the same packages but the error message still appears and the configuration dialog will not be shown. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.9.2.svn3566.fc9.i386 NetworkManager-gnome-0.7.0-0.9.2.svn3566.fc9.i386 NetworkManager-glib-0.7.0-0.9.2.svn3566.fc9.i386 NetworkManager-openvpn-0.7.0-9.svn3549.fc9.i386 openvpn-2.1-0.25.rc7.fc9.i386 How reproducible: - Left klick on the NetworkManager applet - Select VPN-Verbindungen->VPN konfigurieren (VPN-Connections->Configure VPN) - An error dialog appears with the information that the required VPN-Software could not be found. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: An error dialog appears told me that the required VPN-Software could not be found. Expected results: The error dialog should not appear and after select the Add button the configuration wizard should start. Additional info: It's a standard installation of the actual preview release with all available updates installed. On Fedora8 the problem do not exist. No messages are logged where I can get additional information about a possible problem.
I find out that the error message only appears when I try to configure a vpn connection with the steps I already reported. 1. Left click on the applet. 2. Choose 'VPN Connections' -> 'Configure VPN...' But if I ... 1. Right click on the applet and choose 'Edit Connections' 2. Then select the 'VPN'-Tab in the upcoming 'Network Connection'-window no error message appear and it seems that i am able to configure a connection.
Hi, Thank you for your bug report. Could you please give the original error message? This would give me the opportunity to track that issue down. regards Christoph
Some additional informations. It seems that the Network-Manager-Applet don't support OpenVPN connections at all. 1. Witch only NetworkManager-openvpn installed the error message Required software not installed appears. 2. After installing the package NetworkManager-vpnc the error message will not appear and the 'Create VPN connection' assistant start successfully after push the 'Add' button in the 'VPN Connections' window. 3. In the 'Create VPN Connection 1 of 2' window where I have to choose the VPN type I can only choose 'Compatible Cisco VPN client (vpnc)'. There is no entry called 'OpenVPN-Client'. It seems that the installation of the package NetworkManager-openvpn will be ignored ore not recognized.
Hi, I deinstalled the package NetworkManager-vpnc to force the error message again. The package NetworkManager-openvpn is still installed. The original error message follows: --- Cannot add VPN connection No suitable VPN software was found on your system. Contact your system administrator. --- regards Andreas (In reply to comment #2) > Hi, > > Thank you for your bug report. Could you please give the original error message? > This would give me the opportunity to track that issue down. > > regards > > Christoph
after installing networkmanager-openvpn and openvpn software trying to run nm-openvpn-service in a terminal i've got the following message: [mauricio@berlin ~]$ nm-openvpn-service ** (process:4135): WARNING **: <WARN> constructor(): Connection ":1.269" is not allowed to own the service "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn" due to security policies in the configuration file [mauricio@berlin ~]$
If I run nm-openvpn-service I get the same error message: [andreas@schleppi ~]$ nm-openvpn-service ** (process:3707): WARNING **: <WARN> constructor(): Connection ":1.60" is not allowed to own the service "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn" due to security policies in the configuration file
The VPN services are launched by NetworkManager itself, so they won't work if you launch them as your user. They have to attach to the D-Bus system bus, which as a normal user you don't have privileges to do.
Created attachment 303318 [details] vpn configure window
Sorry, didn't know that. When trying to run the configure vpn for openvpn trough nm-applet i'm just able to see the vpnc option. as the image attached .
I'm running x86_64 as follow : NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.9.2.svn3566.fc9.x86_64 NetworkManager-gnome-0.7.0-0.9.2.svn3566.fc9.x86_64 NetworkManager-openvpn-0.7.0-9.svn3549.fc9.x86_64 NetworkManager-glib-0.7.0-0.9.2.svn3566.fc9.x86_64 NetworkManager-vpnc-0.7.0-0.7.7.svn3549.fc9.x86_64
Hi Andreas, I tried to track down the problem by searching the sourcecode of your version with: grep -R "No suitable" * | grep -v "po/" But the output is empty. There seems to be no error message like that in the sourcecode (anymore). Are you sure you have a clean installation? If yes, maybe Dan could give a helping hand here. That is a little bit confusing. regards christoph
Hi christoph, yes I'am sure that it is a clean installation of the Fedora 9 Preview Release. Do I have to enable additional repos to get versions that are more actual than the standard updates that the PackageKit applet installs? Whowever I think that the error message... --- Cannot add VPN connection No suitable VPN software was found on your system. Contact your system administrator. --- will be generated from the NetworkManager itself and not from NetworkManager-openvpn software. I can give you a second example to show you what I mean. Yesterday I downloaded the 'Fedora 9 Preview i686 Live CD'. In the 'Create VPN Connection 1 of 2' window where I have to choose the VPN type I can only choose 'Compatible Cisco VPN client (vpnc)', the same as in my local installation. There is also no entry called 'OpenVPN-Client'. But the NetworkManager-openvpn and openvpn packages are installed. The described error message will not appear there, but I think that's because the vpnc package is also installed. Hopefully you can check this out and see what I mean. I use the preview release on my Dell Inspiron 8500 Laptop and I do a second reinstall of the system in the next hour. After that I will check it out again. regards Andreas
Hi Andreas, I've found the relevant bits in nm-applet (Arggh, I always searched NM itself). Could you please edit /etc/NetworkManager/VPN/nm-openvpn-service.name and replace properties=@PREFIX@/${LIB}/libnm-openvpn-properties with properties=/usr/${LIB}/libnm-openvpn-properties I think that should work. If so, I'm going to push an update ASAP regards Christoph
here solved my problem :-) Cheers
Hi Christoph, I made the changes in /etc/NetworkManager/VPN/nm-openvpn-service.name and the error dialog don't popup anymore. I can choose OpenVPN-Client and everything looks fine. :-) I can reproduce the old state if I revert the changes. Thanks a lot for your great work. This goes to the complete fedora team too. regards Andreas P.S.: I use fedora since version 8 and I only can say I love it. :-)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 429837 ***