15.04 - PPTP VPN stopped working after latest update (as of 2015.08.10)

**John_Manko** · August 10th, 2015

I've have a wired connection with a PPTP VPN interface configured. It's been working great until this weekend's update (2015-08-08/09). Now, attempting to enable the VPN connection logs the following in syslog:

Code:

Aug 10 16:40:34 mycomputer NetworkManager[739]: <error> [1439239234.476337] [vpn-manager/nm-vpn-connection.c:1778] get_secrets_cb(): Failed to request VPN secrets #2: (6) No agents were available for this request.
Aug 10 16:40:34 mycomputer AptDaemon.NetMonitor: WARNING: Failed to determinate network state
Aug 10 16:40:34 mycomputer org.freedesktop.PackageKit[803]: 16:40:34 AptDaemon.NetMonitor [WARNING]: Failed to determinate network state

I've tried adding a new VPN connection with the same config, but I end up with the same log messages.

More information:

Code:

$ sudo more /etc/NetworkManager/VPN/nm-pptp-service.name 
[VPN Connection]
name=pptp
service=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp
program=/usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-pptp-service

[GNOME]
auth-dialog=/usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-pptp-auth-dialog
properties=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/NetworkManager/libnm-pptp-properties
supports-external-ui-mode=true
$ ls -al /usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-pptp-service
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 32384 Jan 27  2015 /usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-pptp-service
$ ls -al /usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-pptp-auth-dialog
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14888 Jan 27  2015 /usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-pptp-auth-dialog
$ ls -al /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/NetworkManager/libnm-pptp-properties
ls: cannot access /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/NetworkManager/libnm-pptp-properties: No such file or directory

**John_Manko** · August 11th, 2015

I filed a bug, but I need to get this resolved ASAP as I need VPN working for my work. Any help would be appreciated. Is there a way to get a list of recently installed/updated packages? I did an update this weekend (I update whenever anything is available).

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...p/+bug/1483431