Re: Could not process the request because no VPN connection was active?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 09:34 -0400, Dr. Diesel wrote:
> I can connect OK with my Windoze box, so I know I'm using the correct
> password.  Connecting with vpnc gives me an incorrect password, but
> the terminology is different, like what is a "secret"?  I must not be
> entering the correct values since everything is named differently for
> the console arguments.  The Network Manager gui worked just fine up
> until that day!

The secret is the "group password", which is different than your Xauth
password.  vpnc uses some odd terminology that the Cisco VPN client
doesn't.

Dan

> Many thanks,
> Andy
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 17:55 -0400, Dr. Diesel wrote:
> >> Any suggestions on this issue?  I've had this intermittently since a
> >> fresh install of F9, now I'm completely unable to connect.
> >
> > Looks like vpnc is quitting before nm-vpnc-service has finished the
> > launch stuff.  It's a race condition in nm-vpnc-service, but it also
> > means that something your VPN config changed (admins updated something?)
> > or your password is no longer correct, or something like that.
> >
> > Can you connect manually with vpnc?
> >
> > Dan
> >
> >>
> >> Jul  6 17:45:03 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  Policy set (eth0) as
> >> default device for routing and DNS.
> >> Jul  6 17:52:45 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  Starting VPN service
> >> 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc'...
> >> Jul  6 17:52:45 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  VPN service
> >> 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc' started
> >> (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc), PID 3721
> >> Jul  6 17:52:45 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  VPN service
> >> 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc' just appeared, activating
> >> connections
> >> Jul  6 17:52:45 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  VPN plugin state changed: 1
> >> Jul  6 17:52:45 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  VPN plugin state changed: 3
> >> Jul  6 17:52:45 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  VPN connection 'TRW'
> >> (Connect) reply received.
> >> Jul  6 17:52:45 localhost kernel: tun0: Disabled Privacy Extensions
> >> Jul  6 17:52:55 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  VPN plugin state changed: 6
> >> Jul  6 17:52:55 localhost NetworkManager: <WARN>
> >> connection_vpn_state_changed(): Could not process the request because
> >> no VPN connection was active.
> >>
> >> I tried loading the Rawhide version of OpenVPN with no luck also:
> >>
> >> openvpn-2.1-0.26.rc8.fc10.i386
> >>
> >> Dmesg dumps this:
> >>
> >> [root localhost ~]# dmesg | tail
> >>  domain 0: span 00000003
> >>   groups: 00000001 00000002
> >> CPU1 attaching sched-domain:
> >>  domain 0: span 00000003
> >>   groups: 00000002 00000001
> >> tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver, 1.6
> >> tun: (C) 1999-2004 Max Krasnyansky <maxk qualcomm com>
> >> tun0: Disabled Privacy Extensions
> >> tun0: Disabled Privacy Extensions
> >> tun0: Disabled Privacy Extensions
> >> [root localhost ~]#
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Andy
> >>
> >
> >
> 
> 
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