John, What VPN provider are you using? I am having no problems in 16.04 using ovpn files provided by PrivateInternetAccess. Perhaps this is a compatibility problem with the format of your provider's files.
Can you check if you can successfully import a vpn config from this file? https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/openvpn/openvpn.zip -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1294899 Title: Import saved VPN connection has been Recently Broken To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/openvpn/+bug/1294899/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs