Network-Manager-OpenVPN Won't Even Open

[s0undt3ch]

Binary package hint: network-manager-openvpn

After successfully making openvpn work on my laptop, I searched for a package to manage it and came across network-manager-openvpn, installed it, I see it's sub-menu under network manager but when trying to setup a vpn connection(the only available option) it wont even pop up an error, nothing.

This report is for Feisty.

Any other info, I'll happily provide it.

[TomasHnyk (sup)]

I am afraid I am not sure what you mean. You click the icon of network manager. In a list, you select "VPN connections" and then configure vpn? Do you get even that far? If not, try running nm-vpn-properties.

[s0undt3ch (ufs)]

I have no such binary nm-vpn-properties, and running a find get's me:

# find / -name "*vpn-properties*" -print
/usr/lib/network-manager-openvpn/libnm-openvpn-properties.la
/usr/lib/network-manager-openvpn/libnm-openvpn-properties.so
/usr/lib/network-manager-openvpn/libnm-openvpn-properties.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/network-manager-openvpn/libnm-openvpn-properties.so.0
/usr/share/gnome-vpn-properties

Attached is also a screenshot of what I see on my nm menu, and when I click "Configure VPN", that's when nothing happens.

PS. I didn't mention earlier, but I'm running Kubuntu Feisty.

[TomasHnyk (sup)]

Oh, I see. But network manager is a gnome program (you probably od not want to run that in a KDE system), as is its openvpn extenstion. However, I cannot confirm your claim since I run only Ubuntu. What you are using is knetworkmanager.

[TomasHnyk (sup)]

Eh, sorry, it actually is not true. http://en.opensuse.org/Projects/KNetworkManager#Virtual_Private_Network_.28VPN.29 - those extension should work with knetworkmanager as well.

[s0undt3ch (ufs)]

Precisely, but I'm still left without a working OpenVPN extension for network manager. :\

[TomasHnyk (sup)]

I investigate an issue and found (I think what the problem is). I installed knetwork manager and it works for me. Vpn connections>configure vpn calls nm-vpn-properties, which however is neither in knetwork manager nor in network-manager-openvpn but in network-manager-gnome (it being a gtk/gnome application). So, if you want this to work, try it install network-manager-gnome and see if it works. If it does (or does not), please respond here.

To fix this, a dependency on network-manager-gnome for network-manager-openvpn/vpnc/pptp should be added. This actually affects only non-ubuntu users (such as kubuntu, flubuntu and so on), since network-manager-gnome is installed by default in Ubuntu. But it should be fixed anyway.

Also, if you do not like the idea of running a GTK aplication in KDE, complain to KDE developers to write a frontend for network manager vpn stuff;-).

[s0undt3ch (ufs)]

I followed your suggestion and installed network-manager-gnome.

I confirm, I now can access the vpn connections panel.

[Florian Hackenberger (f-hackenberger)]

This problem is now mentioned on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/NetworkManager

[Philipp Kern (pkern)]

This is fixed in Gutsy, as nm-vpn-properties is now provided by network-manager instead of network-manager-gnome.

[TomasHnyk (sup)]

I assume since it is fixed for openvpn, it is also fixed for vpnc - or not?