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I'm trying to connect with vpn to work I get the following:

Jun 11 17:48:11 MYLAPTOP NetworkManager[1104]: <info> Starting VPN service 'vpnc'...
Jun 11 17:48:11 MYLAPTOP NetworkManager[1104]: <info> VPN service 'vpnc' started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc), PID 21051
Jun 11 17:48:11 MYLAPTOP NetworkManager[1104]: <info> VPN service 'vpnc' appeared; activating connections
Jun 11 17:48:11 MYLAPTOP NetworkManager[1104]: <info> VPN plugin state changed: starting (3)
Jun 11 17:48:11 MYLAPTOP NetworkManager[1104]: <info> VPN connection 'someconnection' (Connect) reply received.
Jun 11 17:48:11 MYLAPTOP NetworkManager[1104]:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices added (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/tun0, iface: tun0)
Jun 11 17:48:11 MYLAPTOP NetworkManager[1104]:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: device added (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/tun0, iface: tun0): no ifupdown configuration found.
Jun 11 17:48:11 MYLAPTOP NetworkManager[1104]: <warn> /sys/devices/virtual/net/tun0: couldn't determine device driver; ignoring...
Jun 11 17:48:14 MYLAPTOP NetworkManager[1104]:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices removed (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/tun0, iface: tun0)
Jun 11 17:48:14 MYLAPTOP NetworkManager[1104]: <warn> VPN plugin failed: 1
Jun 11 17:48:14 MYLAPTOP NetworkManager[1104]: <info> VPN plugin state changed: stopped (6)
Jun 11 17:48:14 MYLAPTOP NetworkManager[1104]: <info> VPN plugin state change reason: 0
Jun 11 17:48:14 MYLAPTOP NetworkManager[1104]: <info> Policy set 'somewifi' (wlan0) as default for IPv4 routing and DNS.
Jun 11 17:48:14 MYLAPTOP NetworkManager[1104]: <warn> error disconnecting VPN: Could not process the request because no VPN connection was active.
Jun 11 17:48:19 MYLAPTOP NetworkManager[1104]: <info> VPN service 'vpnc' disappeared

using cisco compatible vpnc on ubuntu 14.04

tried also this (not same vpn client but tried it) did not help... please help...

and after running

$ sudo /usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-vpnc-service --debug

for debugging i see:

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---!!!!!!!!! entering phase2_fatal !!!!!!!!!---
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   PARSING PAYLOAD type: 00 (ISAKMP_PAYLOAD_NONE)
   PARSE_OK
/usr/sbin/vpnc: noninteractive can't reuse password
** (nm-vpnc-service:21916): WARNING **: vpnc exited with error code 1
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This usually means you typed the wrong password (either the user password or the group password).

The hint is the last line of the debug log:

/usr/sbin/vpnc: noninteractive can't reuse password

Since you configured the vpn through network manager, the vpnc command is invoked non-interactively and it can't ask for a new password once it detects the one you supplied is wrong (hence the "can't reuse password" message).

To actually find this out, you might want to check within the first blocks of the debug, where you will be able to see the:

Config: Debug 3
Config: Script /usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-vpnc-service-vpnc-helper
Config: Cisco UDP Encapsulation Port 0
Config: Local Port 0
Config: IKE DH Group dh2
Config: Perfect Forward Secrecy server
Config: IPSec ID MY-VPN
Config: IPSec gateway AA.BB.CC.DD
Config: Xauth username USER
Config: Vendor cisco
Config: Enable Single DES
Config: NAT Traversal Mode natt
Config: Xauth password PASSWORD
Config: IPSec secret SECRET

The last two lines contains the plaintext user password and the group shared secret.

I had the same problem and the first google hit was https://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2009-June/msg00034.html, since the second one was this question and I was indeed using ubuntu 14.04, I thought it might help here.

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