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    [RESOLVED] Network Manager Fails to connect to open vpn (expressvpn) - terminal works fine

    Hi,

    My System:

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    :~$ inxi -Fxzd
    System:
    Kernel: 5.19.0-26-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A
    Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.25.5 Distro: Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu)
    Machine:
    Type: Desktop System: Micro-Star product: Z370 Gaming Infinite X(MS-B916)
    v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
    Mobo: Micro-Star model: Z370M GAMING PRO AC (MS-7B44) v: 1.0
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 9.40
    date: 12/27/2017
    Battery:
    Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse charge: 55%
    (should be ignored) status: discharging
    Device-2: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard charge: 55%
    (should be ignored) status: discharging
    CPU:
    Info: 6-core model: Intel Core i7-8700K bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Coffee Lake rev: A cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB L3: 12 MiB
    Speed (MHz): avg: 3219 high: 3700 min/max: 800/5000 cores: 1: 3700
    2: 3700 3: 829 4: 3700 5: 3700 6: 3700 7: 3700 8: 800 9: 3700 10: 3700
    11: 3700 12: 3700 bogomips: 88796
    Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
    Graphics:
    Device-1: NVIDIA GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: nvidia v: 515.65.01 arch: Pascal bus-ID: 01:00.0
    Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.3 driver:
    X: loaded: nvidia unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa
    gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch resolution: 1: 2560x1440 2: 2560x1440
    3: 2560x1440
    OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA
    515.65.01 direct render: Yes
    Audio:
    Device-1: Intel 200 Series PCH HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 1-13:8 bus-ID: 00:1f.3
    Device-2: NVIDIA GP104 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1
    Device-3: SteelSeries ApS Arctis 7 type: USB
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
    Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.19.0-26-generic running: yes
    Sound Server-2: PipeWire v: 0.3.58 running: yes
    Network:
    Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: e1000e
    v: kernel port: N/A bus-ID: 00:1f.6
    IF: enp0s31f6 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
    Device-2: Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168NGW [Stone Peak]
    driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.0
    IF: wlp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
    Bluetooth:
    Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 3168 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 1-7:4
    Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down
    bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes
    address: <filter>
    RAID:
    Hardware-1: Intel SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci v: 3.0
    bus-ID: 00:17.0
    Drives:
    Local Storage: total: 10.3 TiB used: 5.85 TiB (56.8%)
    ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST4000DM004-2CV104 size: 3.64 TiB
    ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Samsung model: SSD 870 EVO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB
    ID-3: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: Seagate model: Expansion Desk
    size: 5.46 TiB
    ID-4: /dev/sdd type: USB vendor: Actions model: HS USB FlashDisk
    size: 58.59 GiB
    ID-5: /dev/sde type: USB vendor: Micron model: MTFDDAK256MAM-1K12
    size: 238.47 GiB
    Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: HL-DT-ST model: DVDRAM GUD0N rev: 1.00
    dev-links: cdrom
    Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes
    rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running
    Partition:
    ID-1: / size: 915.32 GiB used: 99.25 GiB (10.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb2
    ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 33.9 MiB (6.6%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sdb1
    Swap:
    ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) file: /swapfile
    Sensors:
    System Temperatures: cpu: 45.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 54 C
    Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 50%
    Info:
    Processes: 298 Uptime: 1h 17m Memory: 31.29 GiB used: 3.11 GiB (9.9%)
    Init: systemd target: graphical (5) Compilers: gcc: N/A Packages: 2308
    Shell: Bash v: 5.2.2 inxi: 3.3.21
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    I setup my VPN today = expressvpn
    tried a test connection and it works great

    I then download the pre-made ovpn files from expressvpn for the Ubuntu network connection manager and set a few of those up using instructions on Expressvpn
    --I have done this before about a month ago on 20.04 LTS and all was working great
    --I had a system crash due to bad user behaviour (I forgot I should NOT delete anything from /var - EVER - been a long time since I ran Linux as daily driver - so re-learning a bunch of stuff and THAT was a hard lesson)

    I decided if I HAD to reinstall everything, may as well go with the most recent OS and install Kubuntu 22.10

    The ExpressVPN connection setups in network manager were working fine until I got to the fifth one.

    I set up Toronto = connect and disconnected fine
    I set up Toronto2 = connect and disconnected fine
    I set up Montreal = connect and disconnected fine
    I set up Barcelona = connect and disconnected fine
    I set up Barcelona2 = connect and disconnected fine
    I set up Madrid= did not connect gave error failed to activate Madrid <-I thought maybe node down so continued
    I set up Mexico = did not connect gave error failed to activate Mexico <-I thought maybe node down so continued
    I set up New Jersey = did not connect gave error failed to activate New Jersey <-I thought no way 3 nods are down - this is unheard of for ExpressVPN
    I go back to my first 5 connection that worked and tried them again - all are failing to connect with failed to activate error from KDE Plasma network manager
    I go to terminal and all the above are connecting fine from the terminal
    I run sudo tail -f /var/log/syslog
    I try to use network manager again:
    -----------tail output below------------
    Dec 02 21:25:50 who-r-u NetworkManager[874]: <info> [1670034350.2335] audit: op="connection-update" uuid="23b2a451-911d-4f6c-969f-d9f0b1bc2976" name="my_expressvpn_spain_-_barcelona_udp" args="vpn.secrets,vpn.data,ipv6.addr-gen-mode" pid=6257 uid=>
    Dec 02 21:25:52 who-r-u NetworkManager[874]: <info> [1670034352.5891] audit: op="statistics" interface="enp0s31f6" ifindex=2 args="2000" pid=2025 uid=1000 result="success"
    Dec 02 21:25:54 who-r-u NetworkManager[874]: <info> [1670034354.6357] vpn[0x559b6b160200,23b2a451-911d-4f6c-969f-d9f0b1bc2976,"my_expressvpn_spain_-_barcelona_udp"]: starting openvpn
    Dec 02 21:25:54 who-r-u NetworkManager[874]: <info> [1670034354.6363] audit: op="connection-activate" uuid="23b2a451-911d-4f6c-969f-d9f0b1bc2976" name="my_expressvpn_spain_-_barcelona_udp" pid=2025 uid=1000 result="success"
    Dec 02 21:25:54 who-r-u NetworkManager[6342]: 2022-12-02 21:25:54 WARNING: Compression for receiving enabled. Compression has been used in the past to break encryption. Sent packets are not compressed unless "allow-compression yes" is also set.
    Dec 02 21:25:54 who-r-u NetworkManager[6342]: Options error: Unrecognized option or missing or extra parameter(s) in [CMD-LINE]:1: keysize (2.6_git)
    Dec 02 21:25:54 who-r-u NetworkManager[6342]: Use --help for more information.
    Dec 02 21:25:54 who-r-u NetworkManager[874]: <warn> [1670034354.7061] vpn[0x559b6b160200,23b2a451-911d-4f6c-969f-d9f0b1bc2976,"my_expressvpn_spain_-_barcelona_udp"]: dbus: failure: connect-failed (1)
    Dec 02 21:25:54 who-r-u NetworkManager[874]: <warn> [1670034354.7062] vpn[0x559b6b160200,23b2a451-911d-4f6c-969f-d9f0b1bc2976,"my_expressvpn_spain_-_barcelona_udp"]: dbus: failure: connect-failed (1)
    Dec 02 21:26:03 who-r-u NetworkManager[874]: <info> [1670034363.3413] audit: op="statistics" interface="enp0s31f6" ifindex=2 args="0" pid=2025 uid=1000 result="success"
    ​-----------tail output above-----------

    Al through out this the terminal works fine - which is, I suppose a blessing, but I AM a long time Windows user who is GUI addicted - I AM learning more about terminal though, thank god.

    I have seen posts all over the web with this particular situation with network manager not working and this exact error from Arch to Ubuntu, Debian Fedora, Mint - this list goes on and it goes from 2013 to 2022 as near as I can find on the web.

    I can use the terminal but prefer the GUI and network manager is my one and only option for VPN.
    Any help resolving this would be MOST appreciated
    Last edited by yodamin; Dec 03, 2022, 07:44 PM.

    #2
    I got the network manager working .
    If anyone is here in the future for this reason - > open up the opvn file and comment out keysize 256

    IE:

    cipher AES-256-CBC
    #keysize 256
    auth SHA512
    sndbuf 524288
    rcvbuf 524288
    auth-user-pass​

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