Re: NM-vpn no vpn secrets

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 09:21 +0100, Ferry Toth wrote:
> I am on Karmic.
> 
> Actually if a try  multiple times to connect after 3 attempts (or so) it
> will connect.
> 
> Tried the suggestion below, but Karmic also does not use libexec. I have
> no idea how to start up the service on Karmic. Any suggestions?

/usr/lib/network-manager-openvpn/nm-openvpn-service

or on 64-bit systems I assume it is:

/usr/lib64/network-manager-openvpn/nm-openvpn-service

use those with OPENVPN_DEBUG=1 for the detailed logs.

Dan

> Ferry
> 
> Op woensdag 16-12-2009 om 17:27 uur [tijdzone -0800], schreef Dan
> Williams:
> > On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 22:55 +0100, Ferry Toth wrote:
> > > I confirm this issue.
> > > 
> > > However in my sometimes NM connects to the vpn (openvpn) without
> > > problems and sometimes is doesn't. This does not depend on the openvpn
> > > server as other machines work fine,as well a previous version of
> > > nm-applet.
> > > 
> > > I my case I have a CA cert, a certificate and a key cert (which does
> > > not need a password).
> > > 
> > > It may be a problem with the state machine of the networkwork manager?
> > 
> > If you want more information about the problem, you can (as root):
> > 
> > 1) killall -TERM nm-openvpn-service
> > 2) OPENVPN_DEBUG=1 /usr/libexec/nm-openvpn-service
> >    (or wherever it's at on your system, Debian doesn't use libexec)
> > 
> > and then try to connect.  It'll spew out a load of debugging information
> > which is necessary to figure out what's going wrong.
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
> > 
> 
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