Openconnect VPN is not shown in the plasma Network Manager applet

[Allcolor-g]

I've installed saucy beta, and openconnect is no more in the available VPN list.

I've installed openconnect and the network-manager-openconnect package but the openconnect option is not present.

network-manager 0.9.8.0-0ubuntu20
network-manager-openconnect 0.9.8.0-1ubuntu2
network-manager-openconnect-gnome 0.9.8.0-1ubuntu2
openconnect 5.01-1
libopenconnect2:amd64 5.01-1
plasma-nm 0.9.3.0-0ubuntu1

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu Saucy Salamander (development branch)
Release: 13.10

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

plasma-nm is built without openconnect support

[Todd Kennedy (toddkenn)]

I was able to get openconnect to show up in Plasma-nm as a VPN source by doing the following:

1. sudo apt-get build-dep plasma-nm
2. sudo apt-get install libopenconnect-dev
3. sudo apt-get source -b plasma-nm
4. Install resulting plasma-widget-networkmanagement_0.9.3.0-0ubuntu4_all.deb and plasma-nm_0.9.3.0-0ubuntu4_i386.deb
 that where generated from step 2. Your file names might be different if you have a different architecture. ie: amd64
5. reboot

The next hurdle is to actually get openconnect to connect to my vpn source, which for some reason it won't.

----- new errors -----------
<info> Starting VPN service 'openconnect'...
<info> VPN service 'openconnect' started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openconnect), PID 3068
<info> VPN service 'openconnect' appeared; activating connections
get_secret_flags: assertion 'is_secret_prop (setting, secret_name, error)' failed
   SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices added (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/vpn0, iface: vpn0)
   SCPlugin-Ifupdown: device added (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/vpn0, iface: vpn0): no ifupdown configuration found.
<warn> /sys/devices/virtual/net/vpn0: couldn't determine device driver; ignoring...
<info> VPN plugin state changed: starting (3)
<info> VPN connection 'MyVPNConnectionName' (Connect) reply received.
   SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices removed (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/vpn0, iface: vpn0)
<warn> VPN plugin failed: 0
<info> VPN plugin state changed: stopped (6)
<info> VPN plugin state change reason: 10
<info> Policy set 'WiFiNetwork' (wlan0) as default for IPv4 routing and DNS.
<warn> error disconnecting VPN: Could not process the request because no VPN connection was active.
<info> VPN service 'openconnect' disappeared

[Todd Kennedy (toddkenn)]

Looking at my VPN session I noticed this message:

10/14/13 09:55:16 AM tkennedy-ThinkPad-T430 openconnect[3095] Got inappropriate HTTP CONNECT response: HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized

So I'm not sure why I get this. I can use openconnect at the command line with the same parameters (hostname,username, password) to connect and it connects without issue.

[Todd Kennedy (toddkenn)]

After further research and trying to connect I was able to connect to my VPN server. So the answer for me is still valid. I think my issue was that I was testing my credentials and switching between VPN server hosts. So what I did below resolved my issue.

---- steps to get openconnect working with Plasma-nm ----
1. sudo apt-get build-dep plasma-nm
2. sudo apt-get install libopenconnect-dev
3. sudo apt-get source -b plasma-nm
4. Install resulting plasma-widget-networkmanagement_0.9.3.0-0ubuntu4_all.deb and plasma-nm_0.9.3.0-0ubuntu4_i386.deb
 that where generated from step 3. Your file names might be different if you have a different architecture. ie: amd64
5. reboot

[Allcolor-g (allcolor)]

Rebuild plasma-nm as Todd Kennedy instructed did work for me too.

I've openconnect in the list and it works.

Thank you

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Fixed by 0.9.3.0-0ubuntu5.

[Cherif Tawil (c-tawil-home)]

I had the same problem
tried the instructions from Todd but did not work :(

Basically it works on first connection attempt after creating the VPN connection but subsequent connection attempts do not work.

Figured out a work around, basically
the /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/<VPN_Connection_Name> has an section called
[vpn-secrets]
form:main:username=USERNAME
lasthost=IP_ADDRESS
xmlconfig=<some XML>

If I remove those I can use the VPN configured connection

Regards
Cherif