Re: NetworkManager doesnt save the ip address

[Patrick Steiner <patrick helmsdeep at>]

Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 12:11 +0100, Patrick Steiner wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> Odd; shouldn't happen.  Try this (as root):
>
> 1) killall -TERM nm-openvpn-service
> 2) /usr/libexec/nm-openvpn-service
> 3) (as your user) try to activate the VPN connection
>
> Let me know what the output of nm-openvpn-service is.  Debugging it this
> way lets the stdout/stderr of openvpn itself be seen.
>
> Dan
>   
I get the following error:

WARNING **: <WARN>  helper_failed(): nm-openvpn-service-openvpn-helper
did not receive a valid VPN Gateway from openvpn

But before i had to manually add a gconf-key (remote-ip) to my gconf.

 patrick