NetworkManager-pptp

[Dan Williams]

On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 16:31 +0100, Mat Booth wrote:
> I was pleased to see this package hanging out in Koji today. Thanks
> Dan for packaging it, I've been looking forward to seeing this in
> Fedora.
> 
> I've installed the x86_64 package from Koji to try it out on my F9
> machine. Am I being too eager? :-)
> 
> Anyway, I've configured up my VPN connection but I can't get it to
> work. Whatever I try, I always get the following:
> 
> Aug 30 16:05:40 sd NetworkManager: <info>  Starting VPN service
> 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp'...
> Aug 30 16:05:40 sd NetworkManager: <info>  VPN service
> 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp' started
> (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp), PID 6587
> Aug 30 16:05:40 sd NetworkManager: <WARN>  vpn_service_watch_cb(): VPN
> service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp' exited with error: 1

Could be SELinux policy if you're running in enforcing mode.  I haven't
talked to dwalsh yet to get that done.  You can check this by running:

sudo /usr/libexec/nm-pptp-service

and seeing what error it spits out.

Dan

> Aug 30 16:05:45 sd NetworkManager: <info>  VPN service
> 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp' did not start in time,
> cancelling connections
> 
> Currently, I connect to the VPN with this script (login details
> censored, obviously):
> 
> http://www.matbooth.co.uk/lwd/start-vpn
> 
> Which works reasonably well. How can I make NetworkManager-pptp
> connect using the settings I use in that script? What's the best way
> to go about debugging this?
> 
> Regards,
> Mat
> 
> -- 
> Mat Booth
> www.matbooth.co.uk
>