Can not reconnect a VPN without retarting network-manager

[Steven Marguet]

Hello,

since the last update of network-manager-openvpn (2017/03/15) on Xenial, I have an issue with VPN.

Let's say I have two configured VPN: A & B. I am able to connect to my VPN A (or B) with no problem at the first time. However, if I disconnect from this VPN, I am not able to connect it again or to connect to my other VPN anymore. I have to restart the network-manager and it is not always sufficient.

I am under Xubuntu 16.04 and openvpn 2.3.10.
I apologize for the lack of technical information but I don't know how to investigate more this problem. I can only add that it was working fine before the update.

Thank you for help !

Steven

PS: the day of the update, network-manager-openvpn-gnome has also been updated

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Raymond Berger (raybb)]

Hello,

After doing some testing (see log) on a fresh install of linux mint I have figure out that the issue isn't with the network-manager-openvpn package it's just with the network-manager package.
To test this I just upgraded network-manager-openvpn from each version to see when bug occurred (and restarted network-manger service each time) but the bug never happened. When I upgraded network-manager to 1.2.6-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 the bug was there immediately after restarting network service.

There is an issue logged here with a lot of attention that matches the description.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1671606

[Steven Marguet (steven-marguet)]

Hello,

thank you very much Raymond for having taken the time to investigate the problem and sorry for the bad hypothesis of openvnp...

Thanks to you I have been able to deal with this issue by downgrading the network-manager package has explained in your log file.

Thanks again !

Steven