Can't export VPN connection settings

[Dmytro Korzhevin]

Exporting a PPTP connection doesn't work, returns the error message : "unknown error".

[Patrick Kilgore (patrick-kilgore)]

works fine here. Mind translating the text of the error message for me into english?

[Dmytro Korzhevin (korg)]

Yes.

Error:

Cannot export VPN connection

VPN-connection Beeline cannot be exported to Beeline (pptp).conf.

Error: unknown error

[Stuart Colville (muffinresearch)]

I see the same error on Jaunty with the following packages:

network-manager-pptp 0.7.1~rc4.20090316+bzr23-0ubuntu3
network-manager 0.7.1~rc4.1.cf199a964-0ubuntu2

[Nikola Borisof (nikola-borisof)]

Same here.
Ubuntu 9.04

What information do we need for this one?

[Mario (mario947)]

The same for me. Ubuntu 9.04. Please let me know what info I can provide for you.
Thanks.

[Marcus E (marcus+e)]

Same problem (almost) using 9.10 with Swedish localization. Trying to export an OpenVPN profile from nm-connection-editor gives me a friendly error popup after chosing where to save the file (it defaults to somewhere in /dev where I obviously can not save it (and the file is not saved, tried /home/my_user/, usb drive, and sudoing into nm-connection-editor and trying to save from there). I also tried using the option to make the VPN profile available for all users, also while sudoing, same error.

I had this same trouble using 9.04 and 8.10.

[Dave Cabot (dave-cabot)]

Same here folks. Anyone looking at it? I'd like to move to 9.10 and do a new install. Without this I'll need to type in all those VPNs by hand.

[gabbello (gabbello)]

Replicated here as well. Ubuntu 9.10

[Dave Cabot (dave-cabot)]

I think there's enough info here to confirm the problem.

[Nausser (van-brian)]

Same issue here with Lucid Lynx 10.04. I try to export my VPN and after choosing a filename and location (/home/user/...) I get this error.
"Cannot export VPN connection
The VPN connection 'Youniversity' could not be exported to Youniversity (pptp).conf.

Error: unknown error."

Very aggrivating this is still an issue.
Let me know if anyone needs more info.

[filo (filolupus)]

10.04 and I can't export this settings either.
I tried to run nm-connection-editor as root (sudo) but this is pointless because then the list of VPN connections is empty.

[Marcus E (marcus+e)]

The error is still around.
network-manager (0.8.4~git.20110319t175609.d14809b-0ubuntu3) natty

[Dean Hall (p-dean)]

Same problem in Ubuntu 11.10

[pablo (cases-pablo)]

In Ubuntu 11.10 (english localization) I still get the error:

network-manager: 0.9.1.90-0ubuntu5

[Marvin (marvin-nospam)]

I still get it too. Come on... this bug exists since 2008

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Well, PPTP export isn't implemented yet; so this is effectively a bug in network-manager-pptp itself and a Wishlist bug. All the other plugins do seem to have the necessary bits (works here anyway).

[papukaija (papukaija)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 264144, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.