Thanks for the answer! On 24 December 2017 at 09:02, ng0 <[email protected]> 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 > > -- > GnuPG: A88C8ADD129828D7EAC02E52E22F9BBFEE348588 > GnuPG: https://c.n0.is/ng0_pubkeys/tree/keys > WWW: https://n0.is > Also, Happy Christmas! Johannes
