Re: Openvpn and NetworkManager

[Johannes Laute <j.laute3@googlemail.com>]

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Thanks for the answer!

On 24 December 2017 at 09:02, ng0 <ng0@n0.is> wrote:

> Johannes Laute transcribed 4.2K bytes:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to get openvpn and the NetworkManager plugin to work together
> > but I am having some troubles.
> >
> > I started with installing both packages, but the openvpn plugin specific
> > menu options did not show up in the connection menu.
> >
> > I read the documentation and noticed the "vpn-plugins" option in the
> > network-manager service declaration, so I added the
> network-manager-openvpn
> > service like this:
> >
> > (modify-services %desktop-services
> >          (network-manager-service-type config =>
> >                                        (network-manager-configuration
> >                                        (inherit config)
> >                                        (vpn-plugins (list
> > network-manager-openvpn)))))))
> >
> > After that, it now shows up and I can import openvpn connections (I
> noticed
> > it added a NM_VPN_PLUGIN_DIR environment variable) but I cannot connect.
>
> Just to be sure: have you only noticed this variable or have you sourced
> the new .guix-profile/etc/profile where it should be included?
>

Not 100% sure what you mean but the following is in the output of "env" :
NM_VPN_PLUGIN_DIR=/gnu/store/1k98ck98lirfw9974qvz84xikcsjc67f-network-manager-openvpn-1.8.0/lib/NetworkManager/VPN


>
> > When I click connect simply nothing happens, and the following log is
> > emitted to /var/log/debug
> >
> > Dec 23 23:09:49 localhost NetworkManager[345]: <info>  [1514070589.5044]
> > audit: op="connection-activate" uuid="36c09127-ffc0-4d46-9547-
> 06e0ea214a15"
> > name="mullvad_de" pid=470 uid=1000 result="fail" reason="The VPN service
> > 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn' was not installed.
>
> I have opened a bug about this a while ago (OpenVPN and the (not yet
> merged?)
> VPNC plugins are affected. It's annoying prevents me from accessing my
> university
> intranet via VPN for some things from home.
> Maybe it was just an email so far, I can not find a bug ticket for this.
>
>
If I can help by providing any more logs or something I'd happy to do that.


> > I researched the error message and it seems common when people don't have
> > plugin installed (obviously), but I also found this:
> > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/3539 which might be related.
>
> Thanks for the additional issue, I didn't look into Nix so far.
>
> > I'm pretty new to guix and scheme so any help would be greatly
> appreciated
> >
> > johannes
>
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Also, Happy Christmas!
Johannes

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