[vpn-help] ikea startup: Session Management error

[Matthew Grooms]

On 2/2/2012 11:22 AM, mh at morxy.co.uk wrote:
> I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 and installed Shrew VPN Client 2.1.7 using
> Ubuntu's package manager (ike-qtgui 2.1.7+dfsg-1build1).
>
> $ iked
> ii : created ike socket 0.0.0.0:500
> ii : created natt socket 0.0.0.0:4500
> ## : IKE Daemon, ver 2.1.7
> ## : Copyright 2010 Shrew Soft Inc.
> ## : This product linked OpenSSL 1.0.0e 6 Sep 2011
>
> $ ikea &
> Session management error: None of the authentication protocols specified
> are supported
>
> Can anyone explain this error? I've tried googling and can't find any
> definitive solution or cause. I can't use the ikea access manager to
> connect to any remote VPN server, probably as a result of this.
> (Meanwhile, the same VPN server works perfectly on my Windows XP laptop
> with the same Shrew client.)
>

I believe this is coming from the Qt GUI library that ikea links to. 
Looks like quite a few users of Ubuntu have reported this issue. The 
most common solution I can see is upgrading your qt package.

-Matthew