OpenVPN disapeared

Bill Oliver vendor at billoblog.com
Tue Jul 23 00:36:18 UTC 2013


On Mon, 22 Jul 2013, Diego Vargas wrote:

> Hello All,
> Today I wanted to connect to a VPN with OpenVPN but the openvpn option has disappeared. I have a ovpn file, and if I do the import from file it says that doesn't recognize the VPN
> connection information.
> The exact message:
> The file 'vpn-connection.ovpn' could not be read or does not contain recognized VPN connection information.
> 
> Error: Key file contains line 'client' which is not a key-value pair, group, or comment.
> 
> Now I only have four options:
> The Cisco Any Connect Compatible VPN
> Cisco Compatible VPN
> Layer 2 tunneling protocal
> Import from file
> 
> As I said, the openvpn option dissapeared.
> 
> Any help will be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
>

Are you using NetworkManager?  If so, make sure that the package NetworkManager-openvpn is installed, along with (of course) openvpn an the appropriate desktop widget (i.e. for me using KDE, it's kde-plasma-networkmanagement-openvpn and kde-plasma-nm-openvpn)

Not too long ago, I had a bunch of stuff go bad after some installations and updates, and I had to do a reinstall on NetworkManager and a few other such things.  If your experience is like mine, you might have to reinstall some of your network packages, even if it looks like they're installed with a "yum reinstall".


billo


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