Re: Error connecting to VPN (Fedora 16)

[Jirka Klimes <jklimes redhat com>]

On Thursday 15 of December 2011 16:58:24 Joseph wrote:
> Hi -
> 
> I am getting the following error when trying to connect to the VPN:
> 
> NetworkManager[908]: ** Message: nm-pptp-ppp-plugin: (nm_phasechange):
> status 11 / phase 'disconnect'
> 
> Here is the log for /var/log/messages.  Is there a way that I can turn
> on detailed logging?  This connection was working fine last night but
> after installing LXDE desktop it stopped working.
> 

The problem is
> Dec 15 09:54:38  pppd[1831]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
meaning that pppd didn't receive a reply for LCP configuration.
A description of errors is available at
http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-diagnosis.phtml#lcp_timeout

You can turn on debugging logs using procedure in
http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/Debugging#pptp

Jirka