There is no evidence of a bug here yet. You're getting logs reporting that the connecton was terminated because of a short read on GRE packets, and timeouts. I'd suggest looking at whether the underlying connections are properly established first -- for instance, wlan0 appears to be getting turned up while you're connecting to the vpn, so maybe the default route is changing?
Please see if you can add any additional information to this bug report. Thanks! May 6 13:44:29 head pppd[19706]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests May 6 13:44:29 head pppd[19706]: Connection terminated. May 6 13:44:29 head NetworkManager[958]: <warn> VPN plugin failed: 1 May 6 13:44:29 head NetworkManager[958]: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices removed (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/ppp0, iface: ppp0) May 6 13:44:29 head pptp[19710]: nm-pptp-service-19702 warn[decaps_hdlc:pptp_gre.c:204]: short read (-1): Input/output error May 6 13:44:29 head pppd[19706]: Modem hangup ** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/999193 Title: VPN connection doesn't work on Ubuntu 12.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/999193/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs