Comment 12 for bug 415076

Also confirm.

An openvpn connection (X.509 with password) sim fails without any error feedback when selected.

/var/log/daemon.log reveals

Nov 26 14:36:51 mouldy NetworkManager: <info> Starting VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn'...
Nov 26 14:36:51 mouldy NetworkManager: <info> VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn' started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn), PID 6903
Nov 26 14:36:51 mouldy NetworkManager: <info> VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn' just appeared, activating connections
Nov 26 14:36:51 mouldy NetworkManager: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 1
Nov 26 14:36:51 mouldy NetworkManager: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 3
Nov 26 14:36:51 mouldy nm-openvpn[6906]: OpenVPN 2.1_rc19 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [SSL] [LZO2] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] built on Oct 13 2009
Nov 26 14:36:51 mouldy NetworkManager: <info> VPN connection 'New VPN Connection' (Connect) reply received.
Nov 26 14:36:51 mouldy NetworkManager: <WARN> vpn_service_watch_cb(): VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn' died with signal 11
Nov 26 14:36:51 mouldy NetworkManager: <WARN> connection_state_changed(): Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)
Nov 26 14:36:51 mouldy NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): writing resolv.conf to /sbin/resolvconf
Nov 26 14:36:51 mouldy NetworkManager: <info> Policy set 'Auto eth0' (eth0) as default for routing and DNS.
Nov 26 14:36:51 mouldy NetworkManager: <info> VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn' disappeared, cancelling connections

Note that under Gone using the gnome network manager applet the self-same openvpn connection configuration works just fine.

This is a bit of PIA as I much prefer working under the slick KDE desktop ;-