pptp simply doesn't work any more

[Owen Savill]

I needed to connect to the company's PPTP VPN so I configured the setting and set password to always ask. I tried 15.04, 14.10, 14.04 and 13.10 but the VPN network simply doesn't do anything. No logs are created, selecting the VPN network from the connections sys tray drop down does absolutely nothing and neither does switching the VPN connection to ON in the main settings dialog. In the absence of any log output I can't really add to this report.

Then I went right back to 12.04 and everything just worked. Selecting the VPN network elicits an enter password box and the VPN connection is established.

I can't believe that this is something that hasn't been spotted since 12.04 so it could easily be something I'm not doing right, but then the same settings do work in 12.04.

Upgrading from 12.04 doesn't work either

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: pptp-linux 1.7.2-7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-53.89-generic 3.13.11-ckt19
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-53-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.11
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Jun 2 22:39:59 2015
SourcePackage: pptp-linux
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2015-06-02 (0 days ago)

[Owen Savill (osavill)]

Quick uodate, I down graded from the nVidia 331 drivers to 304 and to my amazement PPTP started working again! So I guess this bug needs to be filed against the nVidia drivers.