[xubuntu-users] xubuntu-users Digest, Vol 72, Issue 15

[Chris]

Disabling the network and then enabling it again did the trick. I'll 
remember to restart the service if that doesn't work in the future. Thanks!

-Chris

On 01/20/2013 07:24 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 13:15:54 +0100, Dave Snyderman 
> <davesnyd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Chris-- what I've found I have to do is click on the "Enable 
>> Networking" to
>> disable networking and then click on it again to enable it.
>>
>> Then, I have the VPN option back in the networking menu. I think this 
>> bug
>> was introduced in 12.10.
>
> I experienced that this trick often fails, I prefer to stop the 
> service and then to start it again. I'm not booted to Ubuntu at the 
> moment and I don't remember the name, I guess it's
>
> $ sudo -i
> # service network-manager stop
> # service network-manager start
>
> Hth,
> Ralf
>