Thanks ! That confirms my hypothesis in comment 4. The easy workaround is to push something dummy. This should probably be communicated upstream through https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-devel, if you have the time to do so.
** Changed in: openvpn (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Triaged -- OpenVPN client connect hangs on PUSH_REQUEST https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/579737 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs