Hi.
While I can connect to an OpenVPN server using command line (using openvpn
command), I cannot connect to it using Gnome (neither via the top panel nor Network options in Settings).
When I try to connect using Gnome, it immediately shows me a notification that the connection cannot be established and disconnects. Also, I should note that the problem is system-wide; I tried another user, but no luck.
Things I tried so far, but didn’t work:
- Reinstalling
openvpn
,NetworkManager-openvpn
andNetworkManager-openvpn-gnome
packages. - Removing
/var/cache
directory. - Re-adding the VPNs after removing
.config
,.cache
and.cert
directories.
Here is the related output of journalctl -u NetworkManager -r
:
Jan 03 20:31:36 machitgarha NetworkManager[1053]: <info> [1578070896.8569] vpn-connection[0x55d277726510,00b99905-3880-444b-bd75-ed5e882c1d8f,"Canada UDP",0]: VPN plugin: state changed: stopped (6)
Jan 03 20:31:36 machitgarha NetworkManager[1053]: <info> [1578070896.8565] vpn-connection[0x55d277726510,00b99905-3880-444b-bd75-ed5e882c1d8f,"Canada UDP",0]: VPN plugin: state changed: stopping (5)
Jan 03 20:31:36 machitgarha NetworkManager[1053]: <warn> [1578070896.8564] vpn-connection[0x55d277726510,00b99905-3880-444b-bd75-ed5e882c1d8f,"Canada UDP",0]: VPN plugin: failed: connect-failed (1)
Jan 03 20:31:36 machitgarha NetworkManager[1053]: <warn> [1578070896.8563] vpn-connection[0x55d277726510,00b99905-3880-444b-bd75-ed5e882c1d8f,"Canada UDP",0]: VPN plugin: failed: connect-failed (1)
Jan 03 20:31:36 machitgarha NetworkManager[1053]: <info> [1578070896.6973] vpn-connection[0x55d277726510,00b99905-3880-444b-bd75-ed5e882c1d8f,"Canada UDP",0]: VPN connection: (ConnectInteractive) reply received
Jan 03 20:31:36 machitgarha NetworkManager[1053]: <info> [1578070896.6972] vpn-connection[0x55d277726510,00b99905-3880-444b-bd75-ed5e882c1d8f,"Canada UDP",0]: VPN plugin: state changed: starting (3)
Jan 03 20:31:34 machitgarha NetworkManager[1053]: <info> [1578070894.8390] vpn-connection[0x55d277726510,00b99905-3880-444b-bd75-ed5e882c1d8f,"Canada UDP",0]: Saw the service appear; activating connection
Jan 03 20:31:34 machitgarha NetworkManager[1053]: <info> [1578070894.2316] vpn-connection[0x55d277726510,00b99905-3880-444b-bd75-ed5e882c1d8f,"Canada UDP",0]: Started the VPN service, PID 53133
Jan 03 20:31:33 machitgarha NetworkManager[1053]: <info> [1578070893.9544] audit: op="connection-activate" uuid="00b99905-3880-444b-bd75-ed5e882c1d8f" name="Canada UDP" pid=1851 uid=1000 result="success"
Note: The Gnome integrated VPN service was working before making some changes to some packages (or whatever change), however, from somewhere, it started not to work.
Thanks in advance!