Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 480496
Cannot export VPN connection
Last modified: 2010-06-25 11:06:10 EDT
Description of problem: When I try and export a working VPN configuration, I get an error message Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Right click on NM applet 2. select "Edit Connections ..." menu item 3. select "VPN" tab 4. select a working VPN configuration 5. click "Export" 6. Select a file location 7. Click "Save" Actual results: Error box with: Cannot export VPN connection The VPN connection '<snip>' could not be exported to <snip> (openvpn).conf. Error: VPN setting invalid. Expected results: New file <snip> (openvpn).conf with working open VPN settings Additional info:
There appears to be an upstream bug for this: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=551939
I can confirm it. I thought it happens due to warnings like ** (nm-connection-editor:9182): WARNING **: Invalid setting VPN: IPSec gateway ** (nm-connection-editor:9182): WARNING **: Invalid setting VPN: IPSec ID [...] but it happens for nearly blank Cisco VPN setting too.
Fixed upstream in svn r1156 and r1157; will get into next Fedora update.
NetworkManager-0.7.0.97-5.git20090220.fc10, NetworkManager-openconnect-0.7.0.97-1.fc10, NetworkManager-pptp-0.7.0.97-1.fc10, NetworkManager-openvpn-0.7.0.97-1.fc10, NetworkManager-vpnc-0.7.0.97-1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update NetworkManager NetworkManager-openconnect NetworkManager-pptp NetworkManager-openvpn NetworkManager-vpnc'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-1985
NetworkManager-0.7.0.98-1.git20090225.fc10, NetworkManager-openconnect-0.7.0.97-1.fc10, NetworkManager-pptp-0.7.0.97-1.fc10, NetworkManager-openvpn-0.7.0.97-1.fc10, NetworkManager-vpnc-0.7.0.97-1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update NetworkManager NetworkManager-openconnect NetworkManager-pptp NetworkManager-openvpn NetworkManager-vpnc'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-1985
(in response to anthony's Fedora Updates comment) It fixes the original bug that causes the output you posted above. There's a second bug that nm-openvpn only implements import capability, but that's a bug against NetworkManager-openvpn.
So should I change the component for this bug to NetworkManager-openvpn?
No, I'd file a new one (if one doesn't already exist) on nm-openvpn about not being able to export. There's already an upstream bug about it too.
NetworkManager-0.7.0.99-1.fc10,knetworkmanager-0.7-0.8.20080926svn.fc10,NetworkManager-vpnc-0.7.0.99-1.fc10,NetworkManager-openvpn-0.7.0.99-1.fc10,NetworkManager-pptp-0.7.0.99-1.fc10,NetworkManager-openconnect-0.7.0.99-1.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/NetworkManager-0.7.0.99-1.fc10,knetworkmanager-0.7-0.8.20080926svn.fc10,NetworkManager-vpnc-0.7.0.99-1.fc10,NetworkManager-openvpn-0.7.0.99-1.fc10,NetworkManager-pptp-0.7.0.99-1.fc10,NetworkManager-openconnect-0.7.0.99-1.fc10
NetworkManager-0.7.0.99-1.fc9,NetworkManager-vpnc-0.7.0.99-1.fc9,NetworkManager-openvpn-0.7.0.99-1.fc9,NetworkManager-pptp-0.7.0.99-1.fc9,NetworkManager-openconnect-0.7.0.99-1.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/NetworkManager-0.7.0.99-1.fc9,NetworkManager-vpnc-0.7.0.99-1.fc9,NetworkManager-openvpn-0.7.0.99-1.fc9,NetworkManager-pptp-0.7.0.99-1.fc9,NetworkManager-openconnect-0.7.0.99-1.fc9
NetworkManager-0.7.0.99-1.fc9, NetworkManager-vpnc-0.7.0.99-1.fc9, NetworkManager-openvpn-0.7.0.99-1.fc9, NetworkManager-pptp-0.7.0.99-1.fc9, NetworkManager-openconnect-0.7.0.99-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
NetworkManager-0.7.0.99-1.fc10, knetworkmanager-0.7-0.8.20080926svn.fc10, NetworkManager-vpnc-0.7.0.99-1.fc10, NetworkManager-openvpn-0.7.0.99-1.fc10, NetworkManager-pptp-0.7.0.99-1.fc10, NetworkManager-openconnect-0.7.0.99-1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
New bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=491355 opened for OpenVPN part of the problem.
This problem (or bug 491355) is still present in Fedora 12
with NetworkManager-pptp-0.8.0-1.git20100411.fc13.x86_64.rpm still happens !