network-manager VPN plugins disconnect shortly after connecting

[Daniel Swarbrick]

Multiple VPN plugins (openvpn, pptp) have been observed to automatically disconnect less than a minute after connecting.

This is has been acknowledged and fixed upstream - http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/libnm-glib/nm-vpn-plugin.c?id=11b8574f07ca1df74b84c51195ba76a3218d4c54

Please sync this patch.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[dino99 (9d9)]

connected here via pptp and need to restart nm service on quantal i386

[Sam (litle-sam)]

Connection fails after about 40 seconds using pptp vpn.

[Anders Kaseorg (andersk)]

Same problem with openconnect. A workaround is to downgrade libnm-glib-vpn1:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal/amd64/libnm-glib-vpn1/0.9.4.0-0ubuntu5
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/i386/libnm-glib-vpn1/0.9.4.0-0ubuntu4.1

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

This is fixed in Quantal, closing as Fix Released.

[Eujern Lim (eujern)]

I'm still experiencing this problem even after updating to quantal. Also tried downgrading libnm-glib-vpn1. Still no luck.

[Marius B. Kotsbak (mariusko)]

Well, the fix mentioned is included in Quantal, so please open a new bug report using "ubuntu-bug network-manager".