OpenVPN plugin problems--help debugging?

["Ryan B. Lynch" <ryan b lynch gmail com>]

Hi,

I have a working OpenVPN client machine, that uses the following
configuration on which I'd like to be able to use NM's OpenVPN plugin
(instead of doing it from the command line).  I was able to configure
the new connection, but every time I try to actually use it from the
task-tray icon, it fails immediately (no delay at all) with this error
message in a popup:

	"The VPN connection 'My Company, Inc (main)' failed because the VPN 
service stopped unexpectedly."


I would really appreciate it if anybody could advise me on how to go 
about troubleshooting this.  I am pretty savvy at working with OpenVPN, 
having recently built a pretty sophisticated multi-server arrangment, 
but my OpenVPN knowledge is useless here since I can't even see the 
output of the what the heck the client VPN process is trying to do when 
it connects.  Maybe if someone could educate me on how to do just that, 
it would take me in the right direction.  Even if I could get NM to just 
dump the exec() string that it constructs in order to call OpenVPN, I 
could probably figure out why it's failing.  At this point, though, I'm 
open to all suggestions.


Here's NetworkManager's syslog output for several attempts (four, I
think) over about a half-hour:


Jun 21 13:18:58 caffeine NetworkManager: <info>  Starting VPN service
'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn'...
Jun 21 13:18:58 caffeine NetworkManager: <info>  VPN service
'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn' started
(org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn), PID 20778
Jun 21 13:18:58 caffeine NetworkManager: <info>  VPN service
'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn' just appeared, activating
connections
Jun 21 13:18:58 caffeine NetworkManager: <info>  VPN plugin state changed: 1
Jun 21 13:18:58 caffeine NetworkManager: <info>  VPN plugin state changed: 3
Jun 21 13:18:58 caffeine NetworkManager: <info>  VPN connection 'My
Company, Inc (main)' (Connect) reply received.
Jun 21 13:18:58 caffeine NetworkManager: <info>  VPN plugin state changed: 6
Jun 21 13:18:58 caffeine NetworkManager: <WARN>
connection_vpn_state_changed(): Could not process the request because no
VPN connection was active.
Jun 21 13:19:04 caffeine NetworkManager: <info>  VPN plugin state changed: 3
Jun 21 13:19:04 caffeine NetworkManager: <info>  VPN connection 'My
Company, Inc (main)' (Connect) reply received.
Jun 21 13:19:04 caffeine NetworkManager: <info>  VPN plugin state changed: 6
Jun 21 13:19:04 caffeine NetworkManager: <WARN>
connection_vpn_state_changed(): Could not process the request because no
VPN connection was active.
Jun 21 13:19:28 caffeine NetworkManager: <info>  Starting VPN service
'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn'...
Jun 21 13:19:28 caffeine NetworkManager: <info>  VPN service
'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn' started
(org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn), PID 20808
Jun 21 13:19:28 caffeine NetworkManager: <info>  VPN service
'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn' just appeared, activating
connections
Jun 21 13:19:28 caffeine NetworkManager: <info>  VPN plugin state changed: 3
Jun 21 13:19:28 caffeine NetworkManager: <info>  VPN connection 'My
Company, Inc (main)' (Connect) reply received.
Jun 21 13:19:28 caffeine NetworkManager: <info>  VPN plugin state changed: 6
Jun 21 13:19:28 caffeine NetworkManager: <WARN>
connection_vpn_state_changed(): Could not process the request because no
VPN connection was active.
Jun 21 13:19:33 caffeine NetworkManager: <info>  VPN plugin state changed: 3
Jun 21 13:19:33 caffeine NetworkManager: <info>  VPN connection 'My
Company, Inc (main)' (Connect) reply received.
Jun 21 13:19:33 caffeine NetworkManager: <info>  VPN plugin state changed: 6
Jun 21 13:19:33 caffeine NetworkManager: <WARN>
connection_vpn_state_changed(): Could not process the request because no
VPN connection was active.


My original, working configuration file looks like this (paths are local 
to the directory "/etc/openvpn/").  I ran it by putting it in a file 
called 'mycompany.conf' in the directory '/etc/openvpn', and starting 
the 'openvpn' service:

client
dev		tap
proto		udp
remote		openvpn.mycompany.com 11952
ca		ca.crt
cert		local.crt
key		local.key
tls-auth	tls.key
resolv-retry	infinite
nobind
auth-user-pass
persist-tun
persist-key
verb		5
comp-lzo	yes
tls-remote	"openvpn.mycompany.com"


And here's an export of the configuration I made through 
NetworkManager's GUI:

[openvpn]
description=My Company, Inc (main)
connection-type=x509userpass
remote=openvpn.mycompany.com
port=11952
dev=tap
proto=udp
ca=/home/first.last/OpenVpn/config/ca.crt
cert=/home/first.last/OpenVpn/config/local.crt
key=/home/first.last/OpenVpn/config/local.key
comp-lzo=yes
shared-key=
local-ip=
remote-ip=
username=first last mycompany com
cipher=
ta=/home/first.last/OpenVpn/config/tls.key
ta_dir=
routes=