Hi,

I cannot use VPN from the KNetworkApplet. It works using another app such as Kvpnc but when I click on the configured vpn in KNetworkApplet nothing happens. Actually, I can see a text saying "activating" appearing below the vpn name and quickly disappearing. It is too fast to be a network timeout or something like that.

I am running openSUSE 11.3 I posted this question also there but no solution was provided.

Any ideas will be appreciated.

heg

NetworkManager has likely declared the connection "Invalid". There is nothing Network Management ( the KDE applet ) can do about this unfortunately. You need to remove and add your connection again to try and fix this.

I tried that and didn't work. More info from /var/log/NetworkManager

Jul 15 09:32:08 tecra NetworkManager: <info> Starting VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc'...
Jul 15 09:32:08 tecra NetworkManager: <info> VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc' started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc), PID 6844
Jul 15 09:32:08 tecra NetworkManager: <info> VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc' just appeared, activating connections
Jul 15 09:32:08 tecra NetworkManager: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 1
Jul 15 09:32:08 tecra NetworkManager: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 3
Jul 15 09:32:08 tecra NetworkManager: <info> VPN connection 'VPNXXX' (Connect) reply received.
Jul 15 09:32:08 tecra NetworkManager: <info> VPN plugin failed: 1
Jul 15 09:32:08 tecra NetworkManager: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 6
Jul 15 09:32:08 tecra NetworkManager: <info> VPN plugin state change reason: 0
Jul 15 09:32:08 tecra NetworkManager: <WARN> connection_state_changed(): Could not process the request because no VPN connection was active.
Jul 15 09:32:08 tecra NetworkManager: <debug> [1279179128.896568] run_netconfig(): Spawning '/sbin/netconfig modify --service NetworkManager'
Jul 15 09:32:08 tecra NetworkManager: <debug> [1279179128.898594] write_to_netconfig(): Writing to netconfig: INTERFACE='wlan0'#012
Jul 15 09:32:08 tecra NetworkManager: <debug> [1279179128.898649] write_to_netconfig(): Writing to netconfig: DNSSERVERS='192.168.1.1'#012
Jul 15 09:32:08 tecra NetworkManager: <info> Clearing nscd hosts cache.
Jul 15 09:32:08 tecra NetworkManager: <info> Policy set 'HOME' (wlan0) as default for routing and DNS.
Jul 15 09:32:21 tecra NetworkManager: <debug> [1279179141.001421] ensure_killed(): waiting for vpn service pid 6844 to exit
Jul 15 09:32:21 tecra NetworkManager: <debug> [1279179141.001603] ensure_killed(): vpn service pid 6844 cleaned up

Please try checking the content of /var/log/daemon.log as well, to see if any indications on why it is failing is output.

I do not have any /var/log/daemon.log

I tried to find which is the replacement in openSUSE without success. Do you have any idea?

heg

Perhaps the needed output will be in /var/log/messages or /var/log/NetworkManager

There is nothing relevant in /var/log/messages.

This is the content of /var/log/NetworkManager.

Oct 27 19:54:26 tecra NetworkManager: <info> Starting VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc'...
Oct 27 19:54:26 tecra NetworkManager: <info> VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc' started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc), PID 3175
Oct 27 19:54:26 tecra NetworkManager: <info> VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc' just appeared, activating connections
Oct 27 19:54:26 tecra NetworkManager: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 1
Oct 27 19:54:27 tecra NetworkManager: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 3
Oct 27 19:54:27 tecra NetworkManager: <info> VPN connection 'myvpn' (Connect) reply received.
Oct 27 19:54:27 tecra NetworkManager: <info> VPN plugin failed: 1
Oct 27 19:54:27 tecra NetworkManager: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 6
Oct 27 19:54:27 tecra NetworkManager: <info> VPN plugin state change reason: 0
Oct 27 19:54:27 tecra NetworkManager: <WARN> connection_state_changed(): Could not process the request because no VPN connection was active.
Oct 27 19:54:27 tecra NetworkManager: <debug> [1288202067.086399] run_netconfig(): Spawning '/sbin/netconfig modify --service NetworkManager'
Oct 27 19:54:27 tecra NetworkManager: <debug> [1288202067.087602] write_to_netconfig(): Writing to netconfig: INTERFACE='wlan0'#012
Oct 27 19:54:27 tecra NetworkManager: <debug> [1288202067.087644] write_to_netconfig(): Writing to netconfig: DNSSERVERS='192.168.1.1'#012
Oct 27 19:54:27 tecra NetworkManager: <info> Clearing nscd hosts cache.
Oct 27 19:54:27 tecra NetworkManager: <info> Policy set 'FLIA' (wlan0) as default for routing and DNS.
Oct 27 19:54:39 tecra NetworkManager: <debug> [1288202079.001081] ensure_killed(): waiting for vpn service pid 3175 to exit
Oct 27 19:54:39 tecra NetworkManager: <debug> [1288202079.001236] ensure_killed(): vpn service pid 3175 cleaned up

Unfortunately it seems the relevant output isn't available...