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[Owen Savill <1461301@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

I needed to connect to the company's PPTP VPN so I configured the
setting and set password to always ask. I tried 15.04, 14.10, 14.04 and
13.10 but the VPN network simply doesn't do anything. No logs are
created, selecting the VPN network from the connections sys tray drop
down does absolutely nothing and neither does switching the VPN
connection to ON in the main settings dialog. In the absence of any log
output I can't really add to this report.

Then I went right back to 12.04 and everything just worked. Selecting
the VPN network elicits an enter password box and the VPN connection is
established.

I can't believe that this is something that hasn't been spotted since
12.04 so it could easily be something I'm not doing right, but then the
same settings do work in 12.04.

Upgrading from 12.04 doesn't work either

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: pptp-linux 1.7.2-7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-53.89-generic 3.13.11-ckt19
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-53-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.11
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Jun  2 22:39:59 2015
SourcePackage: pptp-linux
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2015-06-02 (0 days ago)

** Affects: pptp-linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386 trusty

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Title:
  pptp simply doesn't work any more

Status in pptp-linux package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I needed to connect to the company's PPTP VPN so I configured the
  setting and set password to always ask. I tried 15.04, 14.10, 14.04
  and 13.10 but the VPN network simply doesn't do anything. No logs are
  created, selecting the VPN network from the connections sys tray drop
  down does absolutely nothing and neither does switching the VPN
  connection to ON in the main settings dialog. In the absence of any
  log output I can't really add to this report.

  Then I went right back to 12.04 and everything just worked. Selecting
  the VPN network elicits an enter password box and the VPN connection
  is established.

  I can't believe that this is something that hasn't been spotted since
  12.04 so it could easily be something I'm not doing right, but then
  the same settings do work in 12.04.

  Upgrading from 12.04 doesn't work either

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: pptp-linux 1.7.2-7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-53.89-generic 3.13.11-ckt19
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-53-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.11
  Architecture: i386
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Tue Jun  2 22:39:59 2015
  SourcePackage: pptp-linux
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2015-06-02 (0 days ago)

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