I have a VPN that gives me a download of ovpn files and certs so that I just enter/add servers as I need to NetworkManager on my Slackware64 14.1.

I found that I had a bad dns leak on it and was asking my VPN what to do to fix it and they were giving me fairly decent advice, but on certain servers I was still getting a dns leak.

So, I came here and did a search on 'dns leak' and came upon a few at-the-moment seemingly helpful posts. Some led to links here and there and in one of the links after reading made me decide that I must need the openvpn in my Slackware system to be 'on'.

In I went to the openvpn.conf file and adjusted what I thought needed adjusting.

Here's where it gets interesting...in another link I read, I saw I could 'test' if my openvpn.conf file was working correctly and it (the thing I had read) showed what *should* come up after I entered this:

In my case nothing showed up as if it was a command to do something and it did it.

The problem now - after that, I can no longer connect to *any* of the servers of my VPN. Here's how I normally connect to one:

1) Click on networkmanager in taskbar
2) Click on one of the six choices of servers I've setup to choose from
3) Wait as it 'connects' (usually about ten seconds +/-) and carry on as usual on the internet.

Now what happens is, I click on one of the server choices and *instantly* get a message box informing me that that server is 'deactivated' (in other words it can't or won't even try to connect like normal.

I've uninstalled anything I could find to do with 'openvpn' (pkgtool, deleted /etc/openvpn, etc), but nothing seems to be working to fix this.

Has anyone got any ideas what happened and how I can recover so I can use my VPN again?

What is the log output for OpenVPN when you try to start it? Also you should start openvpn from the init script.

Unfortunately I deleted all things vpn including openvpn, networkmanager, networkmanager-openvpn, and re-installed them all just to see if anything would change...it didn't, except that now without even doing anything with openvpn (like the 'test' command I tried as stated in my earlier post) now when I click on one of my VPN servers to use *nothing* happens at all, not even a little window telling me it's deactivated.

I did look in /var/log and found a message from openvpn which I presume was from when I issued the test command. It reads:

No idea what it means though, sadly.

As for starting openvpn from the init script, what's that and where is it? Would it give me a way to set things up in it the way I needed (like I think I was trying to do in my earlier post)?

Thanks for any help with this. It sucks having a VPN service and not able to use it any more.

Not really 'solved', but decided to install my VPN stuff and get it working on my router for the time being. Thanks for the help, mralk3.