This is LMDE XFCE 64bit UP3.
Sometimes, (normally on 2nd time after clean reboot) when activating a OpenVPN, the icon from network manager disappears and this is shown in the syslog:
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Mar 3 21:48:14 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: <info> Starting VPN service 'openvpn'...
Mar 3 21:48:14 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: <info> VPN service 'openvpn' started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn), PID 4692
Mar 3 21:48:14 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: <info> VPN service 'openvpn' appeared; activating connections
Mar 3 21:48:14 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 1
Mar 3 21:48:14 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: <warn> caught signal 11. Generating backtrace...
Mar 3 21:48:15 lynx nm-openvpn[4696]: OpenVPN 2.2.0 x86_64-linux-gnu [SSL] [LZO2] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] [eurephia] [MH] [PF_INET6] [IPv6 payload 20110424-2 (2.2RC2)] built on Jun 16 2011
Mar 3 21:48:15 lynx nm-openvpn[4696]: WARNING: No server certificate verification method has been enabled. See http://openvpn.net/howto.html#mitm for more info.
Mar 3 21:48:15 lynx nm-openvpn[4696]: NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
Mar 3 21:48:15 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: ******************* START **********************************
Mar 3 21:48:15 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: Frame 0: /usr/sbin/NetworkManager (nm_logging_backtrace+0x3b) [0x45b28b]
Mar 3 21:48:15 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: Frame 1: /usr/sbin/NetworkManager (0x400000+0x443af1) [0x443af1]
Mar 3 21:48:15 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: Frame 2: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x7f420ff1d000+0x7f420ff2c020) [0x7f420ff2c020]
Mar 3 21:48:15 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: Frame 3: /usr/sbin/NetworkManager (0x400000+0x44cfda) [0x44cfda]
Mar 3 21:48:15 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: Frame 4: /usr/sbin/NetworkManager (0x400000+0x44d127) [0x44d127]
Mar 3 21:48:15 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: Frame 5: /usr/sbin/NetworkManager (0x400000+0x4825d7) [0x4825d7]
Mar 3 21:48:15 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: Frame 6: /usr/sbin/NetworkManager (0x400000+0x44d241) [0x44d241]
Mar 3 21:48:15 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: Frame 7: /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (g_main_context_dispatch+0x1f3) [0x7f420ea6c4a3]
Mar 3 21:48:15 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: Frame 8: /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x7f420ea27000+0x7f420ea6cc80) [0x7f420ea6cc80]
Mar 3 21:48:15 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: Frame 9: /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (g_main_loop_run+0x182) [0x7f420ea6d2f2]
Mar 3 21:48:15 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: Frame 10: /usr/sbin/NetworkManager (main+0x1234) [0x41f7f4]
Mar 3 21:48:15 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: Frame 11: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7f420e23bead]
Mar 3 21:48:15 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: Frame 12: /usr/sbin/NetworkManager (0x400000+0x41f9ad) [0x41f9ad]
Mar 3 21:48:15 lynx NetworkManager[1846]: ******************* END **********************************
From this point, restarting network-manager does not fix it. Only a clean reboot allows me to connect to the VPN again.