My VPN connection has gone missing

I had a VPN connection which I used frequently. Today it was missing in the NetworkManager connections screen and I realized it was missing altogether from /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/.

Mar 12 14:25:27 siavoshkc-sh110 NetworkManager[349]: [1678618527.8249] audit: op=“connection-delete” uuid=“a71590aa-ed80-4271-bf1a-dbd0cb7b3c77” name=“A vpn” pid=13724 uid=1000 result=“fail” reason=“Error checking authorization: connection was deleted”
Mar 12 14:25:27 siavoshkc-sh110 NetworkManager[349]: [1678618527.8250] audit: op=“connection-delete” uuid=“a71590aa-ed80-4271-bf1a-dbd0cb7b3c77” name=“A vpn” pid=13724 uid=1000 result=“success”
Here is the log but I think I did not delete the connection.

:point_up: :point_up_2:

Mar 12 14:25:27 siavoshkc-sh110 NetworkManager[349]: [1678618527.8249] audit: op=“connection-delete” uuid=“a71590aa-ed80-4271-bf1a-dbd0cb7b3c77” name=“A vpn” pid=13724 uid=1000 result=“fail” reason=“Error checking authorization: connection was deleted”
Mar 12 14:25:27 siavoshkc-sh110 NetworkManager[349]: [1678618527.8250] audit: op=“connection-delete” uuid=“a71590aa-ed80-4271-bf1a-dbd0cb7b3c77” name=“A vpn” pid=13724 uid=1000 result=“success”

The log seems to show that you (the user with user-id 1000) did first fail to delete the connection and then succeeded with the next try. :man_shrugging:

Personally, I have disabled “audit” (too many messages that are useless to me).

Is there no context to be had from your logs?
… eg: the full log sequence around that time, not just these two specific lines

As I suspect I did it myself mistakenly. I didn’t follow up and it didn’t happen since.