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network-manager-openvpn package

  1. Bug #1681295
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 1681295

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

The issue was reported upstream and they commented

"the plugin doesn't use --daemon, so it's unclear why the quoted message would matter.

It looks like the plugin is unable to re-request the password. So, having openvpn cache the password might workaround the issue in some cases, but it doesn't seem to be the right fix.

Maybe it's due to --user, and later the plugin's /usr/libexec/nm-openvpn-service-openvpn-helper is unable to connect NetworkManager via D-Bus.
Or maybe, openvpn requests a new secret via the --management socket, but the plugin fails to handle the request.

It would be helpful to provide a logfile with full debugging info enabled (beware of private data!!).

On recent versions, you can enable verbose logging via

  sudo nmcli general logging level TRACE domains ALL,VPN_PLUGIN

and re-activate the connection.
See https://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/plain/contrib/fedora/rpm/NetworkManager.conf?id=master"