Re: NetworkManager and OpenVPN

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 13:43 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> On 12/15/2008 09:45:15 AM, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 09:25 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> > > On 12/15/2008 07:44:08 AM, Dan Williams wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 2008-12-14 at 10:05 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> > > > > Could someone outline (or provide a pointer to) the role played
> > by 
> > > > > NetworkManager-openvpn (in v 0.7)? I notice that the openvpm 
> > > > service
> > > > 
> > > > > dies on startup, although there appear to be no ill effects 
> > from
> > > > that.
> > > > 
> > > > You my be running an older version of openvpn (2.1 rc8 or lower?) 
> > > > that
> > > > doesn't accept the --script-security argument.  Is that the case?
> > > > 
> > > > Basically, NetworkManager-openvpn is the openvpn plugin to allow
> > NM 
> > > > to
> > > > connect to OpenVPN VPN servers.  When you ask NM to activate an
> > > > OpenVPN
> > > > connection, NM launches nm-openvpn-service which handles the
> > actual
> > > > connection task.
> > > > 
> > > > If --script-security isn't the problem, then we can try to debug
> > this
> > > > further by just running '/usr/libexec/nm-openvpn-service' as 
> > root,
> > > > then
> > > > connecting from the NM applet menu.  That will spit out more 
> > debug
> > > > info,
> > > > which we can look at to find out what the problem is.
> > > 
> > > I'm running openvpn-2.1-0.28.rc9.fc10.i386
> > > 
> > > I'm happy to assist with any debugging.  FWIW, wpa_supplicant.log
> > gets 
> > > CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS on executing /usr/libexec/nm-openvpn-
> > service
> > as 
> > > root.  In that log, I see 
> > > Trying to associate with 00:18:4d:88:55:c2 (SSID='Netgear' 
> > freq=2462
> > 
> > > MHz)
> > > Associated with 00:18:4d:88:55:c2
> > > CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 00:18:4d:88:55:c2 completed
> > (auth) 
> > > [id=0 id_str=]
> > > CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
> > > ....
> > 
> > What's the output from running "/usr/libexec/nm-openvpn-service" as
> > root, and then trying to connect with NM?  That program should print
> > out
> > some information that we can use to debug further.
> 
> Hmmmm ... perhaps I don't get it.
> Stopped NM
> execute nm-openvpn-service
> Start NM
> 
> NM starts normally; no output. Should I be looking elsewhere?

Did you then activate the VPN connection from the applet menu?

Dan