Version: 0.9 (using KDE 4.6.5) OS: Linux I wanted to set up a vpnc connection which doesn't need user authentication, so I configured the user password not to be needed. However, plasmoid-networkmanagement simply doesn nothing when clicking onto this connection. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Configure a cisco vpn connection which doesn't need user authentication. Try to connect using it. Actual Results: Plasmoid networkmanagement does nothing. Expected Results: It should connect.
Please attach the NM log. Usually when you click on a connection and nothing happens is because NM invalidated the connection for some reason. Looking in the log helps to figure out what reason is that.
(In reply to comment #1) Nov 22 18:16:46 netadmin NetworkManager[1585]: <info> Starting VPN service 'vpnc'... Nov 22 18:16:46 netadmin NetworkManager[1585]: <info> VPN service 'vpnc' started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc), PID 32027 Nov 22 18:16:46 netadmin NetworkManager[1585]: <info> VPN service 'vpnc' appeared; activating connections Nov 22 18:16:46 netadmin NetworkManager[1585]: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 1 Nov 22 18:16:46 netadmin NetworkManager[1585]: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 3 Nov 22 18:16:46 netadmin NetworkManager[1585]: <info> VPN connection 'KDE2' (Connect) reply received. Nov 22 18:16:46 netadmin NetworkManager[1585]: <warn> VPN plugin failed: 1 Nov 22 18:16:46 netadmin NetworkManager[1585]: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 6 Nov 22 18:16:46 netadmin NetworkManager[1585]: <info> VPN plugin state change reason: 0 Nov 22 18:16:46 netadmin NetworkManager[1585]: <warn> error disconnecting VPN: Could not process the request because no VPN connection was active. Nov 22 18:16:46 netadmin NetworkManager[1585]: <info> Policy set 'Auto eth0' (eth0) as default for IPv4 routing and DNS. Nov 22 18:16:52 netadmin NetworkManager[1585]: <info> VPN service 'vpnc' disappeared
It looks like a problem in vpnc itself. Last time I debugged vpnc I had to recompile the networkmanager-vpnc plugin to pass the debug parameter to vpnc. That will make things complicated to debug since I do not have access to your vpn server. Anyway, I am very busy these days, I will try to look at this next weekend. By the way, yesterday I commited a change to show vpn error message in the "Connection failed" notification. At least now you receive a feedback when a error occurs.
It seems vpnc refuses to activate a connection that lacks the user authentication info: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531876 Even Kvpnc refuses to create a connection without that info. Can I close this bug as upstream?
Git commit 687a98c69f54654990be41d0b8007614fbac9481 by Lamarque V. Souza. Committed on 26/11/2011 at 23:02. Pushed by lvsouza into branch 'master'. Refuses to create VPNC connections without user or group info. vpnc-0.5.3 refuses to connect without those info: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531876 When it supports that configuration we can remove this validation check. BUG: 286855 M +13 -1 vpnplugins/vpnc/vpncwidget.cpp http://commits.kde.org/networkmanagement/687a98c69f54654990be41d0b8007614fbac9481
Git commit 1ef1677fb9132a19c047d5b1a889213941094197 by Lamarque V. Souza. Committed on 26/11/2011 at 23:02. Pushed by lvsouza into branch 'nm09'. Refuses to create VPNC connections without user or group info. vpnc-0.5.3 refuses to connect without those info: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531876 When it supports that configuration we can remove this validation check. BUG: 286855 (cherry picked from commit 687a98c69f54654990be41d0b8007614fbac9481) M +1 -1 plasma_nm_version.h M +13 -1 vpnplugins/vpnc/vpncwidget.cpp http://commits.kde.org/networkmanagement/1ef1677fb9132a19c047d5b1a889213941094197
Thank you for working on this problem.
*** Bug 295468 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***