Hey all, I'm at my wit's end with openvpn. I've had a VPN service for almost a month now and I haven't been able to use it on Debian sid. I've never used a VPN before, so this is all very new to me.
The service works out of the box on my flatmate's Windows computer, and if I use the provided installation script for Ubuntu 12.04, everything is set up and magically works. (I tried it using a LiveCD of Ubuntu 12.04.) Unfortunately, on Debian sid, it simply doesn't work. The optimal way of setting up the VPN service would be to open the network manager in GNOME 3.4, add a new interface (of type "VPN"), input the server and login credentials, and save it. When I click the toggle to switch it On, it says On but does not activate. If I click the name of the VPN interface, it shows the toggle to be OFF. No amount of waiting at this point will activate the service. No error messages are given. I've tried it with the numerous servers provided by the service, and all have the same effect in the GNOME network manager. I found an article on their site written by a user recommending typing "openvpn Location.ovpn" at the command-line as root; the Location.ovpn files are included in a tarball from the service (along with their certificate, which I have properly pointed to in all instances of attempting connection). An example of these files are between the tildes: ~~~~~ client dev tun proto udp remote us-west.privateinternetaccess.com 1194 resolv-retry infinite nobind persist-key persist-tun ca ca.crt tls-client remote-cert-tls server auth-user-pass comp-lzo verb 1 reneg-sec 0 ~~~~~ When I run that command, I am prompted for my username and password. I input these, and then it is reported that the connection is successful. If I'm *lucky* I can squeeze out enough kilobytes of connection to find out that my IP is successfully being reported as whatever the location I chose is, but after that I cannot connect to anything until I cease the connection with C-c in the command line. I'm at my wit's end as to why this is working in Ubuntu and Windows but not in Debian, and it's driving me mad. I'd like to see some errors! Some sort of pointer as to where I can look next or what I can try next. Any tips on either what I can try or what I can input to get some error messages? For the record, I have an installation of Debian Wheezy (stable) and this problem is identical in there. I think the problem is probably GNOME3's, but do not know of another method of connecting to a VPN with which to test that theory! Also, for reference, here's the help page for the service: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/client-support/ Thank you in advance, -- Aubrey "There are two types of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130624173026.728a58ee@rosie
