Ubuntu – Unable to create VPN connection in Ubuntu 16.04

16.04network-managernetworkingvpn

Unable to create VPN connection as the Save button is always disabled.

Also, the Add VPN Connection… option under VPN Connections is disabled.

As per this solution, I tried accessing the nm-connection-editor from the terminal but the problem remained the same. Running the following:

$ sudo nm-connection-editor

Gave me the following error in the terminal:

** Message: vpn: (openvpn,/usr/lib/NetworkManager/VPN/nm-openvpn-service.name) file "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/NetworkManager/libnm-vpn-plugin-openvpn.so" not found. Did you install the client package?
Gtk-Message: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged.
** Message: Cannot save connection due to error: Editor initializing...
** Message: Cannot save connection due to error: Invalid setting VPN: IPSec gateway

I checked org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.policy file as per this solution but the allow_inactive was already set to yes.

How can I resolve this issue? Is there any other way to connect to VPN?

Best Answer

I had a similar problem. There was also no /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/NetworkManager/libnm-vpn-plugin-openvpn.so file.

The installation of the network-manager-openvpn-gnome package helped.

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I assume you are using network-manager-l2tp-1.2.8 and network-manager-l2tp-gnome-1.2.8 packages that are available in the default Ubuntu 17.10 repository.

Have you tried stopping and disabling the system xl2tpd ? More details in the README.md file :

https://github.com/nm-l2tp/network-manager-l2tp#issue-with-not-stopping-system-xl2tpd-service

What is the output of running ike-scan.sh script against your university's VPN server? You can find more details on the following page:

https://github.com/nm-l2tp/network-manager-l2tp/wiki/Known-Issues#querying-vpn-server-for-its-supported-ipsec-ikev1-algorithms

After seeing the output of ike-scan.sh I can advise what the phase1 & phase2 algorithms should be.

Also from the README.md file, you could look at the journalctl --boot output to help with the debugging, alternatively after issuing the following, try performing a VPN connection, which will then result in debugging info going to the terminal :

sudo killall -TERM nm-l2tp-service
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if it works with sudo..

try running

ll /home/pookyfox/Documents/tw-proxmox-ovh_vpn/

or

ls -o /home/pookyfox/Documents/tw-proxmox-ovh_vpn/

and check if your user/group has read/execute rights to those files. If you see something like these

drwx------   8 root root  ...
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  ...

but not like these

drwxr-xr-x   2 root root ...
drwxrwxrwt  17 root root ...
drwxr-xr-x  10 root root ...
-rwxrwxrwx   1 pookyfox pookyfox ...

just do a sudo chmod -R 777 /home/pookyfox/Documents/tw-proxmox-ovh_vpn/ and try to re-run them again.

Just throwing the first idea off the top of my head, hope it helps.

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