Comment 89 for bug 1211110

This issue has been bothering more of a hundred users for more than a year. In my case there was a workaround at some point, by downgrading openvpn to an older version (can't remember which).

Being so prevailing and old, it is quite disgraceful that this is not being addressed on Ubuntu 16 LTS.

Instead, I see some wall of text here (e.g. comment 80) trying to excuse the inexcusable.