I'm trying to get vpnc to connect from my Rackspace server running Ubuntu 12.04 to a remote VPN server and running into problems. Specifically, vpnc is hanging on startup and I have had to restart my Rackspace server several times just to get control back to the server. I'm not sure whether the problem is with network-manager (0.9.4.0-0ubuntu4.1), vpnc (0.5.3r512-2ubuntu1), Rackspace, or something else entirely. Any suggestions for how to debug would be great!
Network Manager is clearly running:
[cta vpnc]$ ps aux | grep NetworkManager
root 573 0.0 0.5 158672 5792 ? Ssl 16:34 0:00 NetworkManager
root 6160 0.0 0.0 9376 896 pts/0 S+ 18:35 0:00 grep --color=auto NetworkManager
[cta vpnc]$ service network-manager status
network-manager start/running, process 573
and network-manager-vpnc has loaded (I think):
[cta vpnc]$ grep NetworkManager /var/log/syslog | grep -i vpn
Dec 6 15:25:28 cta NetworkManager[602]: <info> VPN: loaded org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc
Dec 6 15:25:28 cta NetworkManager[602]: <info> VPN: loaded org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp
but it looks like there is a strange error
[cta vpnc]$ grep NetworkManager /var/log/syslog
Dec 6 15:25:27 cta kernel: [ 7.332412] type=1400 audit(1354807527.723:4): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" name="/usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-client.action" pid=357 comm="apparmor_parser"
...<snip>...
Dec 6 16:34:40 cta NetworkManager[573]: <info> (eth1): carrier is ON
Dec 6 16:34:40 cta NetworkManager[573]: <error> [1354811680.261941] [nm-device-ethernet.c:456] real_update_permanent_hw_address(): (eth1): unable to read permanent MAC address (error 0)
Dec 6 16:34:40 cta NetworkManager[573]: <info> (eth1): new Ethernet device (driver: 'vif' ifindex: 3)
Dec 6 16:34:40 cta NetworkManager[573]: <info> (eth1): exported as /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1
Dec 6 16:34:40 cta NetworkManager[573]: <warn> bluez error getting default adapter: The name org.bluez was not provided by any .service files
Dec 6 16:34:40 cta NetworkManager[573]: <info> Unmanaged Device found; state CONNECTED forced. (see http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/191889)
Dec 6 16:34:40 NetworkManager[573]: last message repeated 3 times
