I'm also having this issue, however, the workarounds above don't work
for me. I have an ovpn file that I use on Windows with the OpenVPN GUI
just fine. I've tried using Certs + credentials (that are bogus), and
I've tried using an encrypted key file.
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Same issue here, and Anton's workaround works for me too.
For those of you using Kubuntu, the setting to change is Connection type,
from X.509 Certificates to X.509 With Password.
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I also can confirm the workaround proposed by Ferry Toth.
Really great help.
Thank you, Ferry!
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Confirmed the workaround proposed by Ferry Toth.
Select Password with Certificates (TLS) instead of just Certificates (TLS).
Then enter a bogus username and password.
Works great. Thanks Ferry!
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I'll be ... The below comment works for me.
Tried everything else, with no succes.
I have the exact problem, ... no secrets, using ssh and openvpn in
Karmic
Ferry
Comment 97 for bug 360818
Anton Lindström wrote on 2009-12-04:#97
Just want to comment that I have found a workaround for
I'd like to confirm that perlhead's solution of encrypting the private
key works for me. It's not a big deal as you are prompted to save the
passphrase to the GNOME keyring the first time you connect using your
encrypted private key file.
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look at
https://launchpad.net/~nail-nodomain/+archive
it contains many fixes
the link is taken from https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source
/network-manager-openvpn/+bug/117991
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there is also this workaround that could work
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-
vpnc/+bug/360818/comments/97
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@perlhead's solution of encrypting the key works perfectly!
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Looking futher in the code, I realized that the problem may be that the
developers of the program don't want to support unencrypted private key
certificates because they are a security risk. Encrypted private key
certificates have the .pem extension instead of .key, and network-
manager stores a
This patch solves the issue.
The problem was that the service attempted to validate secrets for all
connection types except static keys (the comment was /* Static Key
doesn't need secrets; the rest do */), which is incorrect: passwordless
TLS doesn't need secrets either. the attached patch solves
This patch solves for openvpn the same issue than was reported for vpnc
in Bug #360818, and solved through the patch at:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25715305/nm-vpnc-service.patch.
Ivars Strazdiņš sent this patch to the discussion, but it doesn't work
if you take it from there because the
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This bug is most definitely bnot/b a duplicate of a href=
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That bug deals with dbus rejecting permission to send a message to the
user at the console.
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NetworkManager.vpn fails -- nm-vpn-connection.c.900: NeedSecrets
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See http://www.mail-archive.com/universe-
b...@lists.ubuntu.com/msg166998.html
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The workaround by manatlan works for me as well. thanks!
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The work around posted by manatlan on 2009-12-06 seems to have fixed my
No VPN secrets problem.
Thanks manatlan!
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the trouble is gone away for me, with this workaround, but I don't know
where I've red that ...
My VPN is configured with a certificat tls ... and I simply choose
password with certificat TLS, and enter
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I experience this problem too, and its getting really anying. Therefor I
started to debug this problem by myself. If have no idea of
NetworkManager by grepping through the source I found out that the
message
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@rene
I can't edit DNS under IP4 ... coz I'm in DHCP ... so I setup them (opendns)
thru /etc/resolv.conf
restarted the network-manager ...
and trying to do your openvpn command line ...
and it doesn't seem
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@rene
sorry for my last post : I found a solution ...
I had created another eth0 profil, with manual connection (ip, gateway, mask
and dns) ... and I use this one when i need to connect to my vpn with a
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Ok, just add one or more DNS Server to your DSL config under tab IP4
Configuration. This should help you.
Here are some free uncensored dns server:
http://wiki.ak-zensur.de/index.php/Unzensierte_DNS_Server
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@rene jablonsky
I did what you said, in a terminal ...
everythins seems fine ... openvpn displays :
Fri Nov 20 18:48:40 2009 Initialization Sequence Completed
but when I launch my browser, it can't connect
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Do you connect to the internet directly (using network-manager) or do you use a
router?
I think the problem is, that Ubuntu tries to route all traffic through the vpn
conncetion which actually fails.
I am
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@rene jablonsky
Do you connect to the internet directly (using network-manager)
or do you use a router?
directly (using network-manager)
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I can't test it at the moment, but i will try it later.
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Thank you Rene,
when not using the NM Plugin everything is fine. So your methode with
the console works.
If any Developer wants to reproduce the error, i can provide an OpenVPN
Server and fitting
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This Fix isn't working for this issue, so please remove it from your
config file.
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So what does work then?
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Try to connect to your server by running openvpn in terminal, if you
have a config file for it:
sudo openvpn --config example.conf
If you do not have any config file, you can create a new one or modifiy
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HI - I am too getting this problem - fresh copy of Karmic - Open Vpn connection
to me server at work:
no password needed - 2 cert files and a key file
and I get this error when connecting
Nov 10 21:29:57
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I have checked if any root shell is running and try both, connecting
with and without any root shell running but i can not connect. Tomorrow
i will try to log some debug informations and add them here.
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I had this issue after installing the openvpn plugin for network
manager, but in my case, all I had to do was restart the machine and
everything was working properly. It hasn't misbehaved since. Did that
work
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Like @rene.
this fix doesn't work for me.
And sometimes it works as expected, sometimes not (!?!)
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I'm not really sure if this report is a duplicate.
I try the fix posted in the comments, but it does not work for me. I'm still
getting the same error reported here.
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But i can remember that i have the same problem reported by the other bug
#360818 !
After restarting ubuntu (without changing anything!) the network-manager show
this error message in syslog.
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I think it's a dupe with bug #360818
could you try the workaround at the top of the description
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NetworkManager.vpn fails -- nm-vpn-connection.c.900:
I can confirm this on karmic with working configuration from jaunty.
I'm using certificates for auth.
There are some messages in the terminal, if I start nm-applet from
there:
** (nm-applet:21163): WARNING **: _nm_object_get_property: Error getting
'State' for
I can confirm this behavior .
** Attachment added: Error message logged to /var/log/syslog when attempting
to establish OpenVPN connection via network manager
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/34424381/error_message.txt
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I have this same bug..
I can connect from the console using openvpn --script-security 2, which
leads me to wonder if it is a regression from this bug :
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-
openvpn/+bug/260291
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With todays karmic I get the exact same errors (and same log content). I
tried it with a password-less private key AND with a password protected
private key, so that can't be the issue.
The information I gave NetworkManager was:
gateway, certificates and key, LZO-compression, port. In the IPv4
Of course this is a showstopper for using karmic on company laptops
(where you have no wired connection).
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i'm seeing the same issue, interestingly it may have something to do
with the keyless secret i'm using.
** Changed in: network-manager-openvpn (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
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