[SOLVED] Network manager crash on OpenVPN connection

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[SOLVED] Network manager crash on OpenVPN connection

Post by marcg »

Hi,

This is LMDE XFCE 64bit UP3.

Sometimes, (normally on 2nd time after clean reboot) when activating a OpenVPN, the icon from network manager disappears and this is shown in the syslog:

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Mar  3 21:48:14 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: <info> Starting VPN service 'openvpn'...
Mar  3 21:48:14 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: <info> VPN service 'openvpn' started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn), PID 4692
Mar  3 21:48:14 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: <info> VPN service 'openvpn' appeared; activating connections
Mar  3 21:48:14 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 1
Mar  3 21:48:14 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: <warn> caught signal 11. Generating backtrace...
Mar  3 21:48:15 lynx nm-openvpn[4696]: OpenVPN 2.2.0 x86_64-linux-gnu [SSL] [LZO2] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] [eurephia] [MH] [PF_INET6] [IPv6 payload 20110424-2 (2.2RC2)] built on Jun 16 2011
Mar  3 21:48:15 lynx nm-openvpn[4696]: WARNING: No server certificate verification method has been enabled.  See http://openvpn.net/howto.html#mitm for more info.
Mar  3 21:48:15 lynx nm-openvpn[4696]: NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
Mar  3 21:48:15 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: ******************* START **********************************
Mar  3 21:48:15 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: Frame 0: /usr/sbin/NetworkManager (nm_logging_backtrace+0x3b) [0x45b28b]
Mar  3 21:48:15 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: Frame 1: /usr/sbin/NetworkManager (0x400000+0x443af1) [0x443af1]
Mar  3 21:48:15 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: Frame 2: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x7f420ff1d000+0x7f420ff2c020) [0x7f420ff2c020]
Mar  3 21:48:15 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: Frame 3: /usr/sbin/NetworkManager (0x400000+0x44cfda) [0x44cfda]
Mar  3 21:48:15 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: Frame 4: /usr/sbin/NetworkManager (0x400000+0x44d127) [0x44d127]
Mar  3 21:48:15 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: Frame 5: /usr/sbin/NetworkManager (0x400000+0x4825d7) [0x4825d7]
Mar  3 21:48:15 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: Frame 6: /usr/sbin/NetworkManager (0x400000+0x44d241) [0x44d241]
Mar  3 21:48:15 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: Frame 7: /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (g_main_context_dispatch+0x1f3) [0x7f420ea6c4a3]
Mar  3 21:48:15 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: Frame 8: /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x7f420ea27000+0x7f420ea6cc80) [0x7f420ea6cc80]
Mar  3 21:48:15 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: Frame 9: /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (g_main_loop_run+0x182) [0x7f420ea6d2f2]
Mar  3 21:48:15 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: Frame 10: /usr/sbin/NetworkManager (main+0x1234) [0x41f7f4]
Mar  3 21:48:15 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: Frame 11: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7f420e23bead]
Mar  3 21:48:15 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: Frame 12: /usr/sbin/NetworkManager (0x400000+0x41f9ad) [0x41f9ad]
Mar  3 21:48:15 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: ******************* END **********************************
I keep being connected (not VPN).

From this point, restarting network-manager does not fix it. Only a clean reboot allows me to connect to the VPN again.
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DrHu

Re: Network manager crash on OpenVPN connection

Post by DrHu »

marcg wrote:WARNING: No server certificate verification method has been enabled. See http://openvpn.net/howto.html#mitm for more info.
And you have of course checked out that error?

VPN connections sometimes have issues with the network manager applet; fact of life..

http://abautu.blogspot.com/2010/07/work ... twork.html
--that may help, but a more thorough search is needed for other solutions..
marcg

[SOLVED] Re: Network manager crash on OpenVPN connection

Post by marcg »

Hi,

Thanks!

Solved, the problem was solved using the post from http://abautu.blogspot.com/2010/07/work ... twork.html

The problem was I used a .ovpn previsouly exported that had lines specifying:

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user openvpn
group openvpn
I recovered the original .ovpn file I got and now it all works again. Full diff following:

Original file that works

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#OpenVPN client conf
tls-client
client
dev tun
proto tcp
tun-mtu 1500
remote XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 1194
ns-cert-type server
pkcs12 "XXXXXXXXX.p12"
cipher BF-CBC
comp-lzo
verb 3
route-method exe
route-delay 2
Exported file from the one above that does not work consistently if it's imported again:

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client
remote XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 1194
pkcs12 XXXXXXXXXXX.p12
cipher BF-CBC
comp-lzo yes
tun-mtu  1500
dev tun
proto tcp
nobind
auth-nocache
script-security 2
persist-key
persist-tun
user openvpn
group openvpn
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