[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#797399: Bug#797399: network-manager-openvpn-gnome: OpenVPN connections fail due to missing nm-openvpn user+group

[Michael Biebl]

Control: reassign -1 network-manager-openvpn
Control: forcemerge 797396 -1

Am 30.08.2015 um 14:06 schrieb Andreas Olsson:
> Package: network-manager-openvpn-gnome
> Version: 1.0.6-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Since upgrading to network-manager* 1.0.6-1 the gnome network
> applet (upper right corner) won't let me enable OpenVPN connections.
> 
> Whenever I try to enable a VPN connection the state flips right back
> to disabled, without there being any actual connection attempt. While
> failing, this is what "journalctl -u NetworkManager" has to say.
> 
> 
>   aug 30 13:45:10 corrino NetworkManager[740]: <info>  Starting VPN service 'openvpn'...
>   aug 30 13:45:10 corrino NetworkManager[740]: <info>  VPN service 'openvpn' started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn), PID 7093
>   aug 30 13:45:10 corrino NetworkManager[740]: <info>  VPN service 'openvpn' appeared; activating connections
>   aug 30 13:45:10 corrino NetworkManager[740]: <info>  VPN plugin state changed: starting (3)
>   aug 30 13:45:10 corrino NetworkManager[740]: <info>  VPN connection 'halleck' (ConnectInteractive) reply received.
>   aug 30 13:45:10 corrino NetworkManager[740]: <warn>  VPN connection 'halleck' failed to connect interactively: 'User 'nm-openvpn' not found, check NM_OPENVPN_USER.'.
>   aug 30 13:45:10 corrino NetworkManager[740]: <warn>  error disconnecting VPN: Could not process the request because no VPN connection was active.
> 
> Looks like there is supposed to be a nm-openvpn user?
> 
> Manually adding a nm-openvpn user instead brought on a complaint about a missing nm-openvpn group.
> 
>   aug 30 13:56:43 corrino NetworkManager[740]: <warn>  VPN connection 'halleck' failed to connect interactively: 'Group 'nm-openvpn' not found, check NM_OPENVPN_GROUP.'
> 
> Manually adding a nm-openvpn user and putting it in a nm-openvpn group did do the trick.
> 
>   # adduser --group --system nm-openvpn
> 
> 
> See also the following bug/solution from Arch Linux
> 
>   https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/46124
>   https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/networkmanager-openvpn&id=9aa4b8be2ea71103197f1bee4e37374b8a0c60cc

Thanks for the bug report.
Merging with the existing one.


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