Confirming Shabang's workaround fixes my issue (as well as comment #22 and #23). I'm running 12.04.3 LTS w/ the latest updates. IIRC my original install was 11.04 and I used the update-manager to upgrade my release.
Linux calculon 3.2.0-53-generic #81-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 22 21:01:03 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager-pptp in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/824255 Title: network-manager-openconnect can’t prompt for passwords Status in “network-manager-openconnect” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “network-manager-pptp” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “network-manager-vpnc” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Activating an openconnect VPN fails silently. This goes to syslog: Aug 10 21:01:24 fixed-disk NetworkManager[27695]: <info> Starting VPN service 'openconnect'... Aug 10 21:01:24 fixed-disk NetworkManager[27695]: <info> VPN service 'openconnect' started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openconnect), PID 27842 Aug 10 21:01:24 fixed-disk NetworkManager[27695]: <info> VPN service 'openconnect' appeared; activating connections Aug 10 21:01:24 fixed-disk NetworkManager[27695]: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 1 Aug 10 21:01:24 fixed-disk NetworkManager[27695]: <error> [1313024484.634493] [nm-vpn-connection.c:882] get_secrets_cb(): Failed to request VPN secrets #2: (6) No agents were available for this request. I’m sure part of the problem is that network-manager-openconnect-gnome is missing /usr/lib/network-manager-openconnect/nm-openconnect-auth- dialog (which is built and installed but not packaged), but installing it by hand didn’t seem to help. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-openconnect/+bug/824255/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp