Re: VPN problem

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 17:14 +0200, Michel Leunen wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> 
> Here is what I got:
> 
> $ sudo /usr/lib/network-manager-vpnc/nm-vpnc-service
> ** Message: <info>  vpnc started with pid 17912
> 
> /usr/sbin/vpnc: noninteractive can't reuse password
> 
> ** (process:17889): WARNING **: <WARN>  vpnc_watch_cb(): vpnc exited
> with error code 1
> 
> 
> Did this help you to understand what's going wrong?

That usually means your password, or the group password (if used) is
wrong.

Dan


> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Michel
> 
> Dan Williams a écrit :
> > On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 11:49 +0200, Michel Leunen wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I've got issues trying to connect to a Cisco VPN through Network 
> >> Manager. I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 with NM 0.7.0.100.
> >>
> >> Note that if I use vpnc directly,
> >> $ sudo vpnc-connect vpn.conf
> >> it's working just fine.
> >>
> >> Network Manager is configured with the same parameters as used in vpn.conf.
> >>
> >> When using Network Manager, I get those errors below in the 
> >> /var/log/daemon.log file:
> > 
> > Try the following, as root:
> > 
> > 1) killall -TERM nm-vpnc-service
> > 2) /usr/libexec/nm-vpnc-service
> > 
> > now connect your VPN connection, wait for it to fail, and grab the
> > output from nm-vpnc-service for me.  This works because the vpnc stdout
> > is directed to the console in which its parent is running, in this case
> > a terminal, but when it's auto-spawned via dbus service activation,
> > nm-vpnc-service output (and thus vpnc output) gets dumped to /dev/null.
> > vpnc isn't smart enough yet to have syslog support, so this is really
> > the only way to get better output from vpnc about what's going wrong.
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
> > 
> >> May 30 11:17:36 LinuxPC NetworkManager: <info>  Starting VPN service 
> >> 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc'...
> >> May 30 11:17:36 LinuxPC NetworkManager: <info>  VPN service 
> >> 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc' started 
> >> (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc), PID 11684
> >> May 30 11:17:36 LinuxPC NetworkManager: <info>  VPN service 
> >> 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc' just appeared, activating connections
> >> May 30 11:17:36 LinuxPC NetworkManager: <info>  VPN plugin state changed: 1
> >> May 30 11:17:36 LinuxPC NetworkManager: <info>  VPN plugin state changed: 3
> >> May 30 11:17:36 LinuxPC NetworkManager: <info>  VPN connection 'VPN rtbf 
> >> users' (Connect) reply received.
> >> May 30 11:17:38 LinuxPC NetworkManager: <info>  VPN plugin failed: 1
> >> May 30 11:17:38 LinuxPC NetworkManager: <info>  VPN plugin state changed: 6
> >> May 30 11:17:38 LinuxPC NetworkManager: <info>  VPN plugin state change 
> >> reason: 0
> >> May 30 11:17:38 LinuxPC NetworkManager: <WARN> 
> >> connection_state_changed(): Could not process the request because no VPN 
> >> connection was active.
> >> May 30 11:17:38 LinuxPC NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0): writing 
> >> resolv.conf to /sbin/resolvconf
> >> May 30 11:17:38 LinuxPC NetworkManager: <info>  Policy set 'Auto eth0' 
> >> (eth0) as default for routing and DNS.
> >> May 30 11:17:51 LinuxPC NetworkManager: <debug> [1243675071.001188] 
> >> ensure_killed(): waiting for vpn service pid 11684 to exit
> >> May 30 11:17:51 LinuxPC NetworkManager: <debug> [1243675071.001333] 
> >> ensure_killed(): vpn service pid 11684 cleaned up
> >>
> >>
> >> Does this mean something to you?
> >> TIA,
> >>
> >> Michel
> >>
> > 
> > 
> 
>