Re: network-manager-openconnect setup

[Jelle Licht <jlicht@fsfe.org>]

Hi!

"Santana, Divan" <dsantana@fnb.co.za> writes:

> Hi Guix,
>
> I'm glad to see network-manager-openconnect is now packaged! :) Thank
> you to who ever did that.
>
> Trying to use it, after I installed it system wide and rebooted I get
> this;
>
> ~ ᐅ sudo nmcli con up vpn-fnb --ask
> Error: Connection activation failed: The VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openconnect' was not installed.
>
> I read the manual which says:
>
>      ‘vpn-plugins’ (default: ‘'()’)
>           This is the list of available plugins for virtual private
>           networks (VPNs).  An example of this is the
>           ‘network-manager-openvpn’ package, which allows NetworkManager
>           to manage VPNs via OpenVPN.
>
> I therefore tried this in my config
>
> (network-manager-service-type
>  config => (network-manager-configuration
>             (inherit config)
>             (dns "dnsmasq")
>             (vpn-plugins '("network-manager-openconnect"))
>             ))

If nothing else, you should go with the `network-manager-openconnect'
package object here. In your snippet, you are referring to the string
"network-manager-openconnect" instead.

Something like the following should solve your immediate issue:
  (vpn-plugins (list network-manager-openconnect))

>
> But I get this error:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> ~ ᐅ sudo -E guix system reconfigure  ~/.config/guix/system-config/swift.scm
> Password:
> Backtrace:
> In srfi/srfi-1.scm:
>    592:29 19 (map1 (#<package sed@4.5 gnu/packages/commencement.s…> …))
>    592:29 18 (map1 (#<package diffutils@3.6 gnu/packages/bootstra…> …))
>    592:29 17 (map1 (#<package patch@2.7.6 gnu/packages/bootstrap.…> …))
>    592:29 16 (map1 (#<package gawk@4.2.1 gnu/packages/bootstrap.s…> …))
>    592:29 15 (map1 (#<package tar@1.30 gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm…> …))
>    592:29 14 (map1 (#<package gzip@1.9 gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm…> …))
>    592:29 13 (map1 (#<package bzip2@1.0.6 gnu/packages/bootstrap.…> …))
>    592:29 12 (map1 (#<package xz@5.2.4 gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm…> …))
>    592:29 11 (map1 (#<package lzip@1.20 gnu/packages/compression.…> …))
>    592:29 10 (map1 (#<package shepherd@0.6.1 gnu/packages/admin.s…> …))
>    592:29  9 (map1 (#<package guix@1.0.1-3.4a54ed7 gnu/packages/p…> …))
>    592:29  8 (map1 (#<package elogind@241.3 gnu/packages/freedesk…> …))
>    592:29  7 (map1 (#<package upower@0.99.10 gnu/packages/gnome.s…> …))
>    592:29  6 (map1 (#<package udisks@2.7.7 gnu/packages/freedeskt…> …))
>    592:29  5 (map1 (#<package wpa-supplicant@2.9 gnu/packages/adm…> …))
>    592:29  4 (map1 (#<package network-manager@1.10.10 gnu/package…> …))
>    592:17  3 (map1 ("network-manager-openconnect" #<package libvir…>))
> In guix/inferior.scm:
>    588:24  2 (inferior-package->manifest-entry "network-manager-ope…" …)
>     363:4  1 (inferior-package-input-field "network-manager-opencon…" …)
>    307:18  0 (inferior-package-field _ _)
>
> guix/inferior.scm:307:18: In procedure inferior-package-field:
> In procedure struct_vtable: Wrong type argument in position 1 (expecting
> struct): "network-manager-openconnect"
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Seperate topic:
>
> Bonus points for anyone who knows why when I copy and paste into Emacs I
> get these weird characters.
>
>    588:24  2 (inferior-package->manifest-entry "network-manager-ope…" …)
No clue, sorry :/
>  
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