I tried the nm packages in the proposed repositories and I'm experiencing crashes in nm-pptp-ppp-plugin:
Apr 10 13:33:46 xps-9343 NetworkManager[778]: <info> [1460309626.6913] audit: op="connection-activate" uuid="0c424828-8229-4ceb-acfd-237b46648424" name="VPNtest" pid=1869 uid=1000 result="success" Apr 10 13:33:46 xps-9343 NetworkManager[778]: <info> [1460309626.6947] vpn-connection[0xe737d0,0c424828-8229-4ceb-acfd-237b46648424,"VPNtest",0]: Started the VPN service, PID 21714 Apr 10 13:33:46 xps-9343 NetworkManager[778]: <info> [1460309626.7058] vpn-connection[0xe737d0,0c424828-8229-4ceb-acfd-237b46648424,"VPNtest",0]: Saw the service appear; activating connection Apr 10 13:33:46 xps-9343 NetworkManager[778]: <info> [1460309626.7104] vpn-connection[0xe737d0,0c424828-8229-4ceb-acfd-237b46648424,"VPNtest",0]: VPN plugin: state changed: init (1) Apr 10 13:33:46 xps-9343 NetworkManager[778]: <info> [1460309626.8098] vpn-connection[0xe737d0,0c424828-8229-4ceb-acfd-237b46648424,"VPNtest",0]: VPN connection: (ConnectInteractive) reply received Apr 10 13:33:47 xps-9343 NetworkManager[778]: ** Message: pppd started with pid 21723 Apr 10 13:33:47 xps-9343 NetworkManager[778]: <info> [1460309627.7636] vpn-connection[0xe737d0,0c424828-8229-4ceb-acfd-237b46648424,"VPNtest",0]: VPN plugin: state changed: starting (3) Apr 10 13:33:47 xps-9343 pppd[21723]: Plugin /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.7/nm-pptp-pppd-plugin.so loaded. Apr 10 13:33:47 xps-9343 NetworkManager[778]: Plugin /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.7/nm-pptp-pppd-plugin.so loaded. Apr 10 13:33:47 xps-9343 NetworkManager[778]: ** Message: nm-pptp-ppp-plugin: (plugin_init): initializing Apr 10 13:33:47 xps-9343 NetworkManager[778]: (process:21723): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_proxy_new_sync: assertion 'g_variant_is_object_path (object_path)' failed Apr 10 13:33:47 xps-9343 kernel: [72071.405574] pppd[21723]: segfault at 8 ip 00007fd0b43feb0c sp 00007ffe051b47f0 error 4 in nm-pptp-pppd-plugin.so[7fd0b43fd000+3000] Apr 10 13:33:47 xps-9343 NetworkManager[778]: ** (nm-pptp-service:21714): WARNING **: pppd died with signal 11 Apr 10 13:33:47 xps-9343 NetworkManager[778]: <warn> [1460309627.8919] vpn-connection[0xe737d0,0c424828-8229-4ceb-acfd-237b46648424,"VPNtest",0]: VPN plugin: failed: connect-failed (1) Apr 10 13:33:47 xps-9343 NetworkManager[778]: <info> [1460309627.8921] vpn-connection[0xe737d0,0c424828-8229-4ceb-acfd-237b46648424,"VPNtest",0]: VPN plugin: state changed: stopping (5) Apr 10 13:33:47 xps-9343 NetworkManager[778]: <info> [1460309627.8922] vpn-connection[0xe737d0,0c424828-8229-4ceb-acfd-237b46648424,"VPNtest",0]: VPN plugin: state changed: stopped (6) Apr 10 13:33:47 xps-9343 NetworkManager[778]: <info> [1460309627.8930] vpn-connection[0xe737d0,0c424828-8229-4ceb-acfd-237b46648424,"VPNtest",0]: VPN plugin: state change reason: unknown (0) Apr 10 13:33:47 xps-9343 NetworkManager[778]: <info> [1460309627.8943] vpn-connection[0xe737d0,0c424828-8229-4ceb-acfd-237b46648424,"VPNtest",0]: VPN service disappeared -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1552424 Title: [FFE] NetworkManager 1.2-beta To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1552424/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs