Ubuntu
network-manager-applet package

can't export openvpn settings

Bug #347583 reported by lirel on 2009-03-23

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #264144: NetworkManager VPN configuration export does not work. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Network Manager Applet	In Progress	Unknown	gnome-bugs #573986
	network-manager-applet (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

When clicking on export to an existing vpn-connection in the vpn-dialog i get this errormessage:

Die VPN-Verbindung konnte nicht exportiert werden
Die VPN-Verbindung »Schocktherapie« konnte nicht nach Schocktherapie (openvpn).conf exportiert werden.
Fehler: unknown error.

To reproduce follow this steps:
Create a new openvpn-connection
try to save it to a file

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nm-applet
Package: network-manager-gnome 0.7~~svn20081020t000444-0ubuntu1.8.10.2
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/ehome/User Name/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: network-manager-applet
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic x86_64

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lirel (m8r-lcodw5) wrote on 2009-03-23:

Dependencies.txt Edit (4.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Gconf.txt Edit (18.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
IfupdownConfig.txt Edit (268 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.eth0.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.eth1.txt Edit (1.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (38.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (828 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
WpaSupplicantLog.txt Edit (620.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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lirel (m8r-lcodw5) wrote on 2009-03-23:

it wasn't my intention to commit 25MiB of syslog you can make it public when syslog was deleted.

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Claude Paroz (paroz) wrote on 2009-07-20:

This is due to the fact that the export functionality is not implemented for OpenVPN connections! I've just linked this bug against the upstream enhancement bug. Same for PPTP connections (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=573987).