On 12/15/2008 09:45:15 AM, Dan Williams wrote: > 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.
Hmmmm ... perhaps I don't get it. Stopped NM execute nm-openvpn-service Start NM NM starts normally; no output. Should I be looking elsewhere? _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
