Re: strange vpn error

[Jon Escombe <lists dresco co uk>]

On 12/05/09 19:15, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 13:31 -0400, Wei Weng wrote:
> > Hi. I am using
> >
> > ii  network-manager                   0.7.1~rc4.1.cf199a964-0ubuntu2
> > ii  network-manager-gnome             0.7.1~rc4.1-0ubuntu2
> > ii  network-manager-openvpn           0.7.1~rc4.1.20090323+bzr27-0ubunt
> > ii  network-manager-pptp              0.7.1~rc4.20090316+bzr23-0ubuntu3
> > ii  network-manager-vpnc              0.7.1~rc4.20090316+bzr21-0ubuntu2
> >
> > I imported a VPNC profile file that works just fine using windows
> > cisco vpn client software. But I got error that says "The vpn
> > connection (xxxxx) failed because there were no valid VPN secrets". I
> > googled, but this error so far was only reported that happened on
> > ppptp client, I am using vpnc.
>
> Maybe the passwords didn't import correctly?  Do you have passwords if
> you go into the connection editor (nm-connection-editor) and edit the
> imported VPN?
>
> Dan

Fwiw, I had the same issue with an OpenVPN connection on a clean F11 
preview install. I added the NetworkManager-openvpn package and defined 
the VPN connection, but got the above error until I restarted the 
NetworkManager service...

Regards,
Jon.