I can confirm this; it relates to the nm-applet-update
1) Both the openvpn-plugin and the vnc-plugin cause the nm-applet to crash when activating the vpn (i.e. clicking on the box to get the tick-mark).
As bsd1101 observed above, the vpn connection gets established:
After restarting nm-applet from the command-line I get the lock symbol on the connection and also my vpn connection is confirmed by the provider.
(I only cannot get it easily unlocked; I found that always be very unresponsive...)
Other methods to crash the nm-applet all go via vpn-entries:
2) click on configure vpn-connections; double click on a connection-entry: the applet crashes but you still have the Network Connections screen
or
3) right-click and choose Edit-connections, double click on a vpn-entry: the applet crashes as above;
but, when in Edit-connections, double-click on an ethernet - or wifi-entry: NO crash
In the terminal I get these messages:
Quote:
bash-4.4$ *** Error in `nm-applet': munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0x00000000012efc10 ***
-rebuild nm-applet
bash-4.4$ nm-applet
Segmentation fault
bash-4.4$ nm-applet
bash-4.4$ nm-applet
*** Error in `nm-applet': double free or corruption (out): 0x0000000001f474a0 ***
Aborted
*** Error in `nm-applet': double free or corruption (out): 0x0000000001f474a0 ***
Aborted
*** Error in `nm-applet': double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0000000001d371f0 ***
Aborted
*** Error in `nm-applet': double free or corruption (out): 0x0000000002189350 ***
*** Error in `nm-applet': free(): invalid pointer: 0x00007f2d2c6c50a0 ***
Aborted
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networkmanager-openvpn 1.2.10 or 1.8.0 does not make a difference
rebuilding networkmanager-applet-1.8.10 does not help
rebuilding NetworkManager-1.10.2 does not help
downgrading to nm-applet-1.8.6 helps in my case
EDIT: just noticed that OP had edited his/her post with the same conclusion
We need autorefresh for LQ-pages .....