Nevermind my last comment. It appears that "someone else" had replaced the original packages with the ones from the gnome3-team/gnome3 ppa, and those did need the mentioned workaround.
The VPN indicator also seems to have been fixed by rolling back the packages and the workaround. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1174648 Title: network settings, vpn modules don't load. Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: gnome-control-center fails to find the Network-managers vpn modules. gnome-control-center is looking for the modules in /usr/lib/x86_64 -linux-gnu/NetworkManager/ However network manager + plugins packages install these modules too, /usr/lib/NetworkManager/. Which was changed due to Bug LP: #985788. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1174648/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
