[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#792389: network-manager-openvpn: fails to connect to a openvpn server with TCP

[Thomas Troeger]

Package: network-manager-openvpn
Version: 1.0.8-1
Followup-For: Bug #792389

Dear Maintainer,

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I am trying to create an OpenVPN connection using a local port that is
forwarded to the server over an established SSH connection. Using
NetworkManager I created a corresponding entry. The tunnel does not get
established and a syslog entry is created:

Dec 18 15:44:24 my_hostname NetworkManager[578]: <info>  Starting VPN service
'openvpn'...
Dec 18 15:44:24 my_hostname NetworkManager[578]: <info>  VPN service 'openvpn'
started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn), PID 19517
Dec 18 15:44:24 my_hostname kernel: tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver, 1.6
Dec 18 15:44:24 my_hostname kernel: tun: (C) 1999-2004 Max Krasnyansky
<maxk at qualcomm.com>
Dec 18 15:44:24 my_hostname NetworkManager[578]: <info>  VPN service 'openvpn'
appeared; activating connections
Dec 18 15:44:24 my_hostname NetworkManager[578]: <info>  VPN plugin state
changed: starting (3)
Dec 18 15:44:24 my_hostname NetworkManager[578]: nm-openvpn-Message: openvpn
started with pid 19522
Dec 18 15:44:24 my_hostname NetworkManager[578]: <info>  VPN connection
'my_openvpn_connection' (ConnectInteractive) reply received.
Dec 18 15:44:24 my_hostname nm-openvpn[19522]: Options error: --proto tcp is
ambiguous in this context.  Please specify --proto tcp-server or --proto tcp-
client
Dec 18 15:44:24 my_hostname nm-openvpn[19522]: Use --help for more information.
Dec 18 15:44:24 my_hostname NetworkManager[578]: <warn>  VPN plugin failed:
connect-failed (1)
Dec 18 15:44:24 my_hostname NetworkManager[578]: <info>  VPN plugin state
changed: stopped (6)
Dec 18 15:44:24 my_hostname NetworkManager[578]: <info>  VPN plugin state
change reason: unknown (0)
Dec 18 15:44:24 my_hostname NetworkManager[578]: <warn>  error disconnecting
VPN: Could not process the request because no VPN connection was active.
Dec 18 15:44:24 my_hostname NetworkManager[578]: (nm-openvpn-service:19517):
nm-openvpn-WARNING **: openvpn exited with error code 1

I solved the problem by recompiling the packet, adding a patch to the
debian/patches directory. The patch can be found at
`https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1288711' which I also attach to
this bug report.

I then installed this patched packet. Now the connection is established and
working without any problems.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages network-manager-openvpn depends on:
ii  adduser           3.113+nmu3
ii  libc6             2.21-4
ii  libdbus-1-3       1.10.6-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2  0.102-1
ii  libglib2.0-0      2.46.2-1
ii  libnm-glib-vpn1   1.0.8-1
ii  libnm-glib4       1.0.8-1
ii  libnm-util2       1.0.8-1
ii  openvpn           2.3.8-1

network-manager-openvpn recommends no packages.

network-manager-openvpn suggests no packages.
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