vpn (pptp) service failed to start

Question

When I try to connect to a VPN PPTP connection from Network Manager it fails with this message:

vpn connection failed because the vpn service failed to start.

It worked without any problem till I installed KVPNC application. I think that this app is the reason.

Solution

As justingrif suggested did you try removing kvpnc and test?

Also try the below steps:

• "Available to all user" uncheck this option.
• Advanced settings -> Security and Compression -> check "Use Point-to-Point encryption(MPPE)" option.

Comments

[Admin]

Are you running gnome? Have you tried removing the kvpnc package and trying again?

[Kumar A.]

there is no kvpnc package in ubuntu 14.04 and i checked using above two additional points, it donot work