Package: network-manager-openvpn-gnome Version: 1.0.6-1 Severity: important
Since upgrading to network-manager* 1.0.6-1 the gnome network applet (upper right corner) won't let me enable OpenVPN connections. Whenever I try to enable a VPN connection the state flips right back to disabled, without there being any actual connection attempt. While failing, this is what "journalctl -u NetworkManager" has to say. aug 30 13:45:10 corrino NetworkManager[740]: <info> Starting VPN service 'openvpn'... aug 30 13:45:10 corrino NetworkManager[740]: <info> VPN service 'openvpn' started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn), PID 7093 aug 30 13:45:10 corrino NetworkManager[740]: <info> VPN service 'openvpn' appeared; activating connections aug 30 13:45:10 corrino NetworkManager[740]: <info> VPN plugin state changed: starting (3) aug 30 13:45:10 corrino NetworkManager[740]: <info> VPN connection 'halleck' (ConnectInteractive) reply received. aug 30 13:45:10 corrino NetworkManager[740]: <warn> VPN connection 'halleck' failed to connect interactively: 'User 'nm-openvpn' not found, check NM_OPENVPN_USER.'. aug 30 13:45:10 corrino NetworkManager[740]: <warn> error disconnecting VPN: Could not process the request because no VPN connection was active. Looks like there is supposed to be a nm-openvpn user? Manually adding a nm-openvpn user instead brought on a complaint about a missing nm-openvpn group. aug 30 13:56:43 corrino NetworkManager[740]: <warn> VPN connection 'halleck' failed to connect interactively: 'Group 'nm-openvpn' not found, check NM_OPENVPN_GROUP.' Manually adding a nm-openvpn user and putting it in a nm-openvpn group did do the trick. # adduser --group --system nm-openvpn See also the following bug/solution from Arch Linux https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/46124 https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/networkmanager-openvpn&id=9aa4b8be2ea71103197f1bee4e37374b8a0c60cc -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages network-manager-openvpn-gnome depends on: ii libatk1.0-0 2.16.0-2 ii libc6 2.19-19 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.14.2-2 ii libcairo2 1.14.2-2 ii libdbus-1-3 1.8.20-1 ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.102-1 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.31.5-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.44.1-1.1 ii libgtk-3-0 3.16.6-1 ii libnm-glib-vpn1 1.0.6-1 ii libnm-glib4 1.0.6-1 ii libnm-gtk0 1.0.6-1 ii libnm-util2 1.0.6-1 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.8-3 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.36.8-3 ii libsecret-1-0 0.18.3-1 ii network-manager-openvpn 1.0.6-1 network-manager-openvpn-gnome recommends no packages. network-manager-openvpn-gnome suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
