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Configure VPN... is greyed out and I cannot edit my VPN settings

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Today I see that my "Configure VPN..." part is greyed out and I have been using several PPTP VPN connections so far and today suddenly this seems to be inactive.

I did the changes in the network manager policy, changes which are mentioned in: gray button for saving "editing VPN connection" in Ubuntu 12.04

I also tried:

sudo apt-get install network-manager-pptp

sudo network-manager restart

But the "Configure VPN..." is still greyed out so I cannot configure my existing VPNs.

I have Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. If I upgrade to 14.04, will it work again?

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answered 3 Years ago ithriv · Accepted Answer

I'm hitting the same problem on 2 different 12.04 desktop machines. I'm pretty sure the problem got introduced with the following update that came in on 2/2/2015

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+source/network-manager-applet

BTW, you can still access the configure side of the VPN by running the "nm-connection-editor" from terminal session.

I don't know why they killed the applet selections for "Configure" and "Disconnect" VPN in the latest update. The change log didn't say anything about that https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+source/network-manager-applet/+changelog