[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#797396: Bug#797396: network-manager-openvpn: Can't connect to VPN, user nm-openvpn missing

[Michael Biebl]

Am 30.08.2015 um 13:44 schrieb Tom Rauchenwald:
> Package: network-manager-openvpn
> Version: 1.0.6-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> Hi,
> 
> after upgrading network-manager-openvpn to 1.0.6-1 I can't connect to
> a VPN anymore. The relevant part of the log:
> 
> Aug 30 13:22:02 orphu NetworkManager[572]: <info>  Starting VPN service 'openvpn'...
> Aug 30 13:22:02 orphu NetworkManager[572]: <info>  VPN service 'openvpn' started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn), PID 1338
> Aug 30 13:22:02 orphu NetworkManager[572]: <info>  VPN service 'openvpn' appeared; activating connections
> Aug 30 13:22:02 orphu NetworkManager[572]: <info>  VPN plugin state changed: starting (3)
> Aug 30 13:22:02 orphu NetworkManager[572]: <info>  VPN connection 'xxx' (ConnectInteractive) reply received.
> Aug 30 13:22:02 orphu NetworkManager[572]: <warn>  VPN connection 'xxx' failed to connect interactively: 'User 'nm-openvpn' not found, check NM_OPENVPN_USER.'.
> Aug 30 13:22:02 orphu NetworkManager[572]: <info>  (enp2s0): device state change: secondaries -> failed (reason 'secondary-connection-failed') [90 120 54]
> Aug 30 13:22:02 orphu NetworkManager[572]: <info>  NetworkManager state is now DISCONNECTED
> 
> It seems that a user nm-openvpn is now needed.
> 
> As a workaround, I created this user (and put it in the group
> nm-openvpn), now everything works fine. I suspect said user should be
> created at package install time.
> 
> If the bug severity is not appropriate, please downgrade it accordingly.

No, the severity is correct. Thanks for the bug report and sorry for the
inconvenience.

Will look into that.


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