Subject: Re: bug#33832: The VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn' was not installed.

From: Tomáš Čech <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 14:29:17 +0100

Hi Ludo,

On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 02:19:20PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>Hi Tomáš,
>
>Tomáš Čech <[email-masked]> skribis:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 07:51:07AM -0500, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
>
>[...]
>
>>>To be continued...
>>
>> You seem to be on very right track. There is another unexpect problem
>> - NetworkManager doesn't seem to respect NM_VPN_PLUGIN_PATH in the
>> right place.
>>
>> Try this quick patch:
>>
>> From fc8bbfe018b4f19fb383391c71e3518a9c46e0f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: =?UTF-8?q?Tom=C3=A1=C5=A1=20=C4=8Cech?= <[email-masked]>
>> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2019 13:23:43 +0100
>> Subject: [PATCH] respect NM_VPN_PLUGIN_DIR
>
>Does this patch solve the problem for you?  How did you get there?  :-)

Partially. I was not interested in OpenVPN, but L2TP/IPSec VPN (my new
employer is using) so I was using network-manager-l2tp module with the same problems.
(Actually it is much more painful because it requires some more
patching of xl2tpd and strongswan to bring it up together... They have
somehow hardcoded locations for configuration and secrets...)

But with Maxim's DBus related patches and my NM patch it seemed to be
starting daemons at least.

Best regards,

S_W