On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 09:25 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > On 12/15/2008 07:44:08 AM, Dan Williams wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-12-14 at 10:05 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > > Could someone outline (or provide a pointer to) the role played by > > > NetworkManager-openvpn (in v 0.7)? I notice that the openvpm > > service > > > > > dies on startup, although there appear to be no ill effects from > > that. > > > > You my be running an older version of openvpn (2.1 rc8 or lower?) > > that > > doesn't accept the --script-security argument. Is that the case? > > > > Basically, NetworkManager-openvpn is the openvpn plugin to allow NM > > to > > connect to OpenVPN VPN servers. When you ask NM to activate an > > OpenVPN > > connection, NM launches nm-openvpn-service which handles the actual > > connection task. > > > > If --script-security isn't the problem, then we can try to debug this > > further by just running '/usr/libexec/nm-openvpn-service' as root, > > then > > connecting from the NM applet menu. That will spit out more debug > > info, > > which we can look at to find out what the problem is. > > I'm running openvpn-2.1-0.28.rc9.fc10.i386 > > I'm happy to assist with any debugging. FWIW, wpa_supplicant.log gets > CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS on executing /usr/libexec/nm-openvpn-service as > root. In that log, I see > Trying to associate with 00:18:4d:88:55:c2 (SSID='Netgear' freq=2462 > MHz) > Associated with 00:18:4d:88:55:c2 > CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 00:18:4d:88:55:c2 completed (auth) > [id=0 id_str=] > CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS > ....
What's the output from running "/usr/libexec/nm-openvpn-service" as root, and then trying to connect with NM? That program should print out some information that we can use to debug further. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
