Network Manager - OpenVPN - service failed to start

[Netorious]

I am running with the installation of Ubuntu 9.04 and I had a VPN connection configured in order to use Witopia. which is working fine but when I tried to upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10, that doesn't come to work.

Actually,My problem is that In Network Manager, under VPN Connections, when I select my "openvpn" connection, it is occurring the following error message:

The vpn connection 'openvpn' failed because the VPN service failed to start.

Why, It's gonna happen with me and where I am lacking in my connection...

[Zachary]

I think , you are lacking from some installation of other rpm(s), you need to installa them quickly and the error would be resolved after the installation of the package. The required package is named as network-manager-pptp

Use this very command to install and implement it in your system that would be as follows : sudo apt-get install network-manager-pptp

Then it should work as has been reported in the comments section.

[Big Fish]

If you will go for the advance changes then you need to look into the network directory file which is contained in the following location, just go there and edit the file

/etc/network/interfaces file.

The contents of the file would be replaced with the following, just change the contents from

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

To this:

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

This has also been reported to work for some.

[Shen]

I am also working with the WiTopia on my EeePC 900a and installed with Ubuntu 9.10. Since I deactivated the option 'Available to all users' as suggested that it would work very good for me. The things that needed to do to get WiTopia to work:


1. Installing OpenVPN with Synaptics that should installed earlier.
2. installing 'network-manager-openvpn' with Synapics
3. copying the important profile and key files from the Mac or Windows version to any directory in Ubuntu
4. Import the .ovpn files with the network managers and be sure that 'Connect automatically' and 'Available to all users' are not checked (are NOT activated)

I have tried and it is working fine for me, I can use WiTopia with Ubuntu 9.10 and it is much reliable....

[Steve123]

I think, It is very hard to find the exact solution for that and there is not a resolution to get it working with the Network Manager. I use it now from console with a .conf file:

sudo openvpn config.conf