Losing option for VPN connections on networking icon

[ithinkiam]

Hi all,

I'm a recent convert to Xbuntu from fedora and linuces and am liking it a lot. Especially, the LTS plan for 12.04.

I have a working VPNC setup to be able to connect to work and for a while the 'VPN Connections' option was visible when clicking the networking icon on the toolbar. However, recently it has disappeared.

I've found that disabling and re-enabling networking brings back the option.

Anyone know how I can make sure this option is constantly available and isn't disappearing on each reboot?
TIA

[albandy]

Hi all,

I'm a recent convert to Xbuntu from fedora and linuces and am liking it a lot. Especially, the LTS plan for 12.04.

I have a working VPNC setup to be able to connect to work and for a while the 'VPN Connections' option was visible when clicking the networking icon on the toolbar. However, recently it has disappeared.

I've found that disabling and re-enabling networking brings back the option.

Anyone know how I can make sure this option is constantly available and isn't disappearing on each reboot?
TIA

It happens also to me, I think it's a bug. I "solved" it by adding a new vpn connection (it seems that if you've 2 vpn connections configured the bug disappears).

[ithinkiam]

Thanks. I'll give your solution a go.

[ahallubuntu]

FYI, in Ubuntu 12.04.1 there is a bug with Network Manager (also used in Xubuntu I believe). After a while the Network Manager applet will kind of turn into a zombie; VPN menus won't expand, extra wireless networks won't show, etc. I believe this was supposed to have been fixed in 12.04.2, can't verify that myself.

The way I fix this is crude but it works: kill the nm-applet process and restart it. In a terminal:

ps -afe | grep nm-applet

which produces - for example:

username    3237  3126  0 Mar19 ?        00:00:17 nm-applet

The process number in my case is 3237. Kill the process:

kill -9 3237

Then start a new nm-applet:

nm-applet &
exit