Re: NetworkManager doesnt save the ip address

[Patrick Steiner <patrick helmsdeep at>]

Hi,

meanwhile i figured the following out.

If i add the keys local-ip and remote-ip to the my gconf, networkmanager
breaks a few steps later.

here is a output of my /var/log/messages file:


Mar 18 12:08:51 hostX ntpd[2314]: Deleting interface #8 tun0,
192.168.11.31#123, interface stats: received=0, sent=0, dropped=0,
active_time=980 secs
Mar 18 12:08:52 hostX NetworkManager: <info>  Starting VPN service
'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn'...
Mar 18 12:08:52 hostX NetworkManager: <info>  VPN service
'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn' started
(org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn), PID 1671
Mar 18 12:08:52 hostX NetworkManager: <info>  VPN service
'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn' just appeared, activating
connections
Mar 18 12:08:52 hostX NetworkManager: <info>  VPN plugin state changed: 1
Mar 18 12:08:52 hostX NetworkManager: <info>  VPN plugin state changed: 3
Mar 18 12:08:52 hostX nm-openvpn[1673]: OpenVPN 2.1_rc15
i386-redhat-linux-gnu [SSL] [LZO2] [EPOLL] built on Nov 30 2008
Mar 18 12:08:52 hostX nm-openvpn[1673]: NOTE: the current
--script-security setting may allow this configuration to call
user-defined scripts
Mar 18 12:08:52 hostX nm-openvpn[1673]: LZO compression initialized
Mar 18 12:08:52 hostX NetworkManager: <info>  VPN connection 'vpnA'
(Connect) reply received.
Mar 18 12:08:52 hostX kernel: tun0: Disabled Privacy Extensions
Mar 18 12:08:52 hostX nm-openvpn[1673]: TUN/TAP device tun0 opened
Mar 18 12:08:52 hostX nm-openvpn[1673]: /sbin/ip link set dev tun0 up
mtu 1500
Mar 18 12:08:52 hostX nm-openvpn[1673]: /sbin/ip addr add dev tun0 local
192.168.11.31 peer 192.168.11.30
Mar 18 12:08:52 hostX nm-openvpn[1673]:
/usr/libexec/nm-openvpn-service-openvpn-helper tun0 1500 1545
192.168.11.31 192.168.11.30 init
Mar 18 12:08:52 hostX NetworkManager: <info>  VPN plugin failed: 2
Mar 18 12:08:52 hostX nm-openvpn[1673]: script failed: external program
exited with error status: 1
Mar 18 12:08:52 hostX nm-openvpn[1673]: Exiting
Mar 18 12:08:52 hostX NetworkManager: <info>  VPN plugin failed: 1
Mar 18 12:08:52 hostX NetworkManager: <info>  VPN plugin state changed: 6
Mar 18 12:08:52 hostX NetworkManager: <info>  VPN plugin state change
reason: 0
Mar 18 12:08:52 hostX NetworkManager: <WARN> 
connection_state_changed(): Could not process the request because no VPN
connection was active.
Mar 18 12:08:52 hostX NetworkManager: <info>  Policy set 'System eth0'
(eth0) as default for routing and DNS.

So it looks like the openvpn plugin is broken.

I'll try to figure out more later...

regards,
 patrick

Robert Vogelgesang wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 09:15:02AM +0100, Patrick Steiner wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> i have setup a openvpn tunnel and if i setup this via a simple openvpn
>> config file all works fine. But if i try to import (or build from
>> scratch) to the nm-connection-editor the Local IP Address gets lost. It
>> also isnt saved into the gconf file. If I open the nm-connection-editor
>> again I get the following error:
>>
>
> a few minutes ago I've reported an issue with the "hmac auth" option
> support of the openvpn plugin that seems to be based on the same grounds,
> i. e. an option set in the GUI is not saved in the gconf file.
>
>
>> I had a similar bug a few versions ago with the pptp-vpn settings. So
>> could that also be such a bug?
>>
>> I am using NetworkManger with Fedora 10:
>
> Yup, me too.
>
> 	Robert
>
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