[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1132272: Bug#1132272: network-manager-openvpn: Empty "VPN" tab in nm-applet

[Michael Biebl]

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Am 30.03.26 um 10:47 schrieb li ar:

>     * What led up to the situation?
>       I'm trying to add a VPN connection in nm-applet from a saved config

Do you mean nm-connection-editor?

>     * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>       ineffective)?
>       In nm-applet, I tried creating VPN connection from file or manually. VPN tab is still empty. I cannot enter my user/pass thus VPN connection is considered incomplete => "save" button greyed-out
>       In CLI I tried to run "openvpn --config /tmp/openvpn_client.ovpn" and "nmcli connection import type openvpn file /tmp/openvpn_client.ovpn". VPN connection gets created but "VPN" tab in nm-applet still empty => I cannot enter credentials => VPN entry does not work.
>       I tried to restart NM "service"/daemon. With no luck.
>       I tried to include the user/pass in the "openvpn_client.ovpn" file through "auth-user-pass <filename>" directive, but does not work either.
>       I tried to install the latest (stable/unstable) version of network-manager-openvpn package but it requires to upgrade other packages (libnm0) and I didn't want to break my system.
>     * What was the outcome of this action?
>       See above the various results for various commands
>     * What outcome did you expect instead?
>       I need the VPN tab of nm-applet to show the various textboxes for its configuration, included username & passaword, so that I can enter & save them!
> 
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If you run a nm-connection-editor from a terminal, what is the output on 
stdout/stderr if you try to create a connection?


> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 13.0
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 6.18.15+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/14 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
> Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
> 
> Versions of packages network-manager-openvpn depends on:
> ii  adduser          3.152+mint1

You have packages installed that hint towards Debian Mint. Is that some 
kind of FrankenDebian where you have other repositories enabled?

Michael
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