Comment 6 for bug 1200519

Simon, thank you for taking the time to comment.
I have just now tested this on another identical machine running 12.04. As you said , the issue exists there as well. I must not have encountered it before today.

Still , this caused a part of my network to do down this morning when openvpn had restarted during the update . It didn't cause anything significant beyon,d having to call someone to press the reset button though.

Would it be possible to use another technique to decide when the openvpn service should return except for an arbitrary amount of seconds? ( What the person above here suggested maybe , though i don't really understand what he means exactly) Or maybe add the ability to select the amount of seconds to wait using /etc/default/openvpn or something similar.(which does seem like a plaster on a wooden leg)

In my humble opinion this bug should stay open until a solution beyond "sleep until it has cleaned up after itself" has been found. Whether restarting a service will work should not be at the mercy of such things. It should be guaranteed to always work . If it doesn't it should be fixed.

Friendly regards.
Avery.