Re: VPN fails with "The VPN service was invalid"

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 08:01 +0200, Tobias Kaminsky wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am using Gentoo with following versions:
> NM: 0.8.0_pre20090824
> NM-applet: 9999 (svn)
> VPNC: 0.5.3
> 
> Connecting to VPN via vpnc start works fine.
> Changing from VPN to "normal" WLAN via Applet  also.

Did you install the network-manager-vpnc package and try to connect
without restarting?  At the moment, NM will not recognize new VPN
plugins without a restart, which is a know bug on the list to fix.

That specific error  means NetworkManager doesn't know about the VPN
service because it did not read that VPN's .name file
(ie /etc/NetworkManager/VPN/nm-vpnc-service.name) when it started up.

Dan

> But activating VPN does not work:
> 
> Oct  9 07:49:59 tobi-lap NetworkManager: 
> nm_vpn_connection_get_active_connection_path: assertion `NM_IS_VPN_CONNECTION 
> (connection)' failed
> Oct  9 07:49:59 tobi-lap NetworkManager: <WARN>  
> impl_manager_activate_connection(): Connection (2) 
> /org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/1 failed to activate: (2) The VPN 
> service was invalid.
> 
> 
> As VPNC is working (and started at the time) I do not know where the problem 
> is.
> 
> Can I improve the debug?
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Tobias Kaminsky
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