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network-manager-openvpn package

openvpn doesn't automatically connect

Bug #1726155 reported by Redwolf
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
network-manager-openvpn (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

Setting "connect automatically" doesn't work at all. The system starts up and nothing happens.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: network-manager-openvpn-gnome 1.2.10-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Oct 22 23:58:11 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-20 (2 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20171018)
SourcePackage: network-manager-openvpn
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Redwolf (viking.redwolf) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

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Redwolf (viking.redwolf) wrote :

It seems there's a patch published. Unsure about the NM version and so if the patch applies to the Artful version of Ubuntu. Here's the bugzilla report: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772640

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in network-manager-openvpn (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Paul Collins (pjdc) wrote :

The bug linked in #3 seems to be about regular connections, not VPNs.

It's possible to configure VPNs to connect automatically as follows, via the terminal:

First, find the UUID of the VPN connection:

    nmcli connection | grep vpn

Then, modify the relevant primary connection(s) to add the VPN as a secondary:

    nmcli connection modify NAME-OF-CONNECTION connection.secondaries UUID-OF-VPN-CONNECTION

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Paul Collins (pjdc) wrote :

Also, the "connect automatically" checkbox is no longer present in GNOME 3 on 20.04 LTS.

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