[lucid alpha3] network-manager-openvpn stopped working

[Björn Schließmann]

Binary package hint: network-manager-openvpn

In Karmic, my VPN connection worked fine. Since Lucid Alpha 3, nm-applet shows the following error when trying to connect:

"""
Cannot start VPN connection 'EBD'

There was a problem launching the authentication dialog for VPN connection type 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn'. Contact your system administrator.
"""

A needed file seems to not be present:

~$ cat /etc/NetworkManager/VPN/nm-openvpn-service.name
[VPN Connection]
name=openvpn
service=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn
program=/usr/lib/network-manager-openvpn/nm-openvpn-service

[GNOME]
auth-dialog=/usr/lib/network-manager-openvpn/nm-openvpn-auth-dialog
properties=libnm-openvpn-properties

~$ stat /usr/lib/network-manager-openvpn/nm-openvpn-service /usr/lib/network-manager-openvpn/nm-openvpn-auth-dialog
  File: `/usr/lib/network-manager-openvpn/nm-openvpn-service'
  Size: 22748 Blocks: 48 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: 805h/2053d Inode: 114770 Links: 1
Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2010-03-01 19:13:59.000000000 +0100
Modify: 2010-02-20 18:49:29.000000000 +0100
Change: 2010-03-01 19:14:01.000000000 +0100
stat: cannot stat `/usr/lib/network-manager-openvpn/nm-openvpn-auth-dialog': No such file or directory

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Mar 1 19:20:37 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: network-manager-openvpn 0.8-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-14.20-generic
SourcePackage: network-manager-openvpn
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-14-generic i686

[Björn Schließmann (b-schliessmann)]

Argh. In Lucid, the package network-manager-openvpn-gnome is also needed.

But the said packages don't depend on each other, though they don't work without each other. Perhaps the following dependencies should be added:

network-manager-openvpn should suggest network-manager-openvpn-gnome
network-manager-openvpn-gnome should depend on network-manager-openvpn

[Björn Schließmann (b-schliessmann)]

(BTW, forget to mention explicitly: after installing network-manager-openvpn-gnome, VPN access worked again.)

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Marking this as a duplicate of bug 516854, network-manager-openvpn and network-manager-openvpn-gnome need their dependencies adjusted.

[Daniel Bidwell (bidwell)]

After upgrading to Lucid I made certain that I had openvpn, network-manager-openvpn, and network-manager-openvpn-gnome, but it still didn't work. It would start thousands of openvpn processes. I finally reinstalled each of these packages and it now works fine!