VPN profile grayed out

[Mike Rushton]

After upgrading from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04, the VPN profile which was used daily is now grayed out on boot. See attached screenshot.

After restarting the network-manager service, the profile is then active and can be selected and connects without issue.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: network-manager 1.2.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-36.55-generic 4.4.16
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-36-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME-Flashback:Unity
Date: Mon Aug 22 12:02:05 2016
IfupdownConfig:
 # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-03-23 (883 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140322)
IpRoute:
 default via 192.168.0.1 dev wlan0 proto static metric 600
 10.0.2.0/24 dev lxcbr0 proto kernel scope link src 10.0.2.1
 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000
 192.168.0.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.108 metric 600
NetworkManager.state:
 [main]
 NetworkingEnabled=true
 WirelessEnabled=true
 WWANEnabled=true
 WimaxEnabled=true
SourcePackage: network-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-08-10 (11 days ago)
modified.conffile..etc.dnsmasq.d.network-manager: [modified]
mtime.conffile..etc.NetworkManager.NetworkManager.conf: 2015-08-07T19:56:59.679956
mtime.conffile..etc.dnsmasq.d.network-manager: 2014-06-30T11:51:24.816947
nmcli-nm:
 RUNNING VERSION STATE STARTUP CONNECTIVITY NETWORKING WIFI-HW WIFI WWAN-HW WWAN
 running 1.2.0 connecting starting none enabled enabled enabled enabled enabled

[Mike Rushton (leftyfb)]

Screenshot showing VPN profile grayed out.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.