GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 789341
cannot connect to vpn via pptp in GNOME 3.26.1 network settings in Ubuntu 17.10. The connect slide gets back immediately and does not connect to a VPN instead.
Last modified: 2020-11-12 14:28:14 UTC
Created attachment 362085 [details] This is what happened in the PPTP VPN. cannot connect to vpn via pptp in GNOME 3.26.1 network settings in Ubuntu 17.10. The connect slide gets back immediately and does not connect to a VPN instead. When I installed an OpenVPN Plugin Network Manager Plugin, this works. But I want to connect to a PPTP because I believe this is more native than OpenVPN
Created attachment 362164 [details] Here is the same problem case (Unable to do PPTP Connection in Ubuntu 17.10 GNOME 3.26.1) performed in the virtual machine.
Same error here, syslog: VPN connection, created in network manager can't even turn on - slider goes back to off right after your click on it. Connect via "connect" does nothing too. I've tried to change option - store password/do not store password. No errors shown,except syslog: Oct 20 03:13:27 sabertooth NetworkManager[824]: <info> [1508458407.5923] audit: op="connection-activate" uuid="709047eb-3254-419f-a152-0a8ff0c3a04b" name="Schastye" pid=1603 uid=1000 result="success" Oct 20 03:13:27 sabertooth NetworkManager[824]: <info> [1508458407.5966] vpn-connection[0x55b89ac6b2c0,709047eb-3254-419f-a152-0a8ff0c3a04b,"Schastye",0]: Started the VPN service, PID 5992 Oct 20 03:13:27 sabertooth NetworkManager[824]: <info> [1508458407.6019] vpn-connection[0x55b89ac6b2c0,709047eb-3254-419f-a152-0a8ff0c3a04b,"Schastye",0]: Saw the service appear; activating connection Oct 20 03:13:27 sabertooth gnome-shell[1603]: Invalid VPN service type (cannot find authentication binary) Oct 20 03:13:27 sabertooth gnome-shell[1603]: Invalid VPN service type (cannot find authentication binary) Oct 20 03:13:27 sabertooth NetworkManager[824]: <error> [1508458407.6336] vpn-connection[0x55b89ac6b2c0,709047eb-3254-419f-a152-0a8ff0c3a04b,"Schastye",0]: Failed to request VPN secrets #3: No agents were available for this request. Oct 20 03:13:27 sabertooth NetworkManager[824]: <info> [1508458407.6347] vpn-connection[0x55b89ac6b2c0,709047eb-3254-419f-a152-0a8ff0c3a04b,"Schastye",0]: VPN plugin: state changed: stopped (6) Possible workaround: choose save password for all users
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