It seems to be related to the network-manager-applet UI, and not the underlying service/infraestructure. Restarting network-manager service doesn't restore the VPN menu items.
And while the applet is "broken", you can still turn the VPN connections up and down with nmcli. In that case the applet will reflect the status in its icon (with/without the little padlock), but the VPN submenu will remain empty. As mentioned before, killing and restarting nm-applet solves the issue... for a while. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager-applet in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/985028 Title: nm-applet stops displaying VPN connections Status in “network-manager-applet” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: At first boot, nm-applet shows my (openvpn) VPN connections just fine. After some number of hours of running, typically after suspending and resuming, the VPN Connections submenu appears empty. There is still a submenu, but it's only a few pixels tall, as if it's not populated with anything. This is a regression from 11.10. Note that I can still initiate the vpn connection from nmcli without any trouble, so I'm sure this is nm-applet related. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: network-manager-gnome 0.9.4.1-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu4 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Apr 18 08:56:05 2012 IfupdownConfig: auto lo iface lo inet loopback #auto wlan0 #iface wlan0 inet dhcp InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20110720.1) NetworkManager.state: [main] NetworkingEnabled=true WirelessEnabled=true WWANEnabled=false ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/zsh SourcePackage: network-manager-applet UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-22 (26 days ago) nmcli-dev: DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH wlan0 802-11-wireless connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1 eth0 802-3-ethernet unavailable /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0 nmcli-nm: RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN running 0.9.4.0 connected enabled enabled enabled enabled disabled To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/985028/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
