Ubuntu 9.04 pptp Problem

[cmnorton]

I believe the following is a distribution problem. I installed pptp-linux and the necessary network manager pptp components on my 9.04 system. I cannot connect, but most importantly the connection attempt fails immediately with a modem hangup. There is no attempt to launch any components and negotiate.

The reason I believe this is a distribution problem is before my laptop was repaired under warranty, vpn was working in the prior release to 9.04; I upgraded to 9.04 from that prior release; and vpn continued to work.

I have looked out on the web and tried some of the recommendations listed in the answers to this question, but cannot get vpn running.

I am willing to do the work, but do not know what packages to add or configure, until this is fixed in the regular distribution.

I'll gladly add any files needed from my distro, if the person(s) handling this bug would request which files.
Thanks.
cmn

[cmnorton (octopusgrabbus)]

This problem also occurs on 9.10. Just checked.

[cmnorton (octopusgrabbus)]

I keep my system continually updated. This is the latest error in syslog. Are there any workarounds?

Nov 28 16:57:14 hiawatha NetworkManager: <WARN> connection_state_changed(): Could not process the request because no VPN connection was active.
Nov 28 16:57:14 hiawatha NetworkManager: <info> Policy set 'Auto MtLaughmore' (wlan0) as default for routing and DNS.
Nov 28 16:57:23 hiawatha anacron[4662]: Job `cron.daily' started
Nov 28 16:57:23 hiawatha anacron[1728]: Updated timestamp for job `cron.daily' to 2009-11-28
Nov 28 16:57:27 hiawatha NetworkManager: <debug> [1259445447.001663] ensure_killed(): waiting for vpn service pid 973 to exit
Nov 28 16:57:27 hiawatha NetworkManager: <debug> [1259445447.001874] ensure_killed(): vpn service pid 973 cleaned up
Nov 28 16:57:37 hiawatha sudo: pam_sm_authenticate: Called
Nov 28 16:57:37 hiawatha sudo: pam_sm_authenticate: username = [cnorton]
Nov 28 16:57:49 hiawatha wpa_supplicant[2530]: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
Nov 28 16:59:49 hiawatha wpa_supplicant[2530]: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS