VPN Connections Don't Show up in NetworkManager

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A problem recently developed. It may be related to the 8.04.1 upgrade.

I have 2 VPN connections defined in Network Manager. I can see them if I select "VPN Connections/Configure VPN..." on the Network Manager context menu.

However these VPN connection do not show up on the VPN Connections menu itself, so I cannot activate them.

Normally the menu looks like:

VPN Connection 1
VPN Connection 2
----------------
Configure VPN...
Disconnect VPN...

And I would click on "VPN Connection 1" to activate.

The problem is the menu items for the VPN connections aren't displaying so I cannot activate the VPN.

Any ideas? I tried restarting NetworkManager, NetworkManagerDispatcher, and nm-applet, but no change.

[T_W]

Bump.. anyone?

VPN is totally down for me and I cannot get it running again.

[T_W]

Bug and workaround documented here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-pptp/+bug/200304

Basically workaround is to manually:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart
$ nm-applet &


Man, these kind of regressions are damn annoying.