Why does my Windows 10 build 10074 restart soon after connecting to VPN?

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Windows 10 build 10074 restarts soon after connecting to VPN

I am facing this issue on build 10074 running on Lenovo x220. Everything runs fine, but as soon as I connect to VPN, a dialog box is displayed which says "your system will restart in 1 min" and the machine restarts.

I checked the logs in eventvwr and it seems the issue is with the process lsass.exe and module kerberos.dll.

"A critical system process, C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe, failed with status code 255. The machine must now be restarted."

Faulting application name: lsass.exe, version: 10.0.10074.0, time stamp: 0x553acef7
Faulting module name: kerberos.DLL, version: 10.0.10074.0, time stamp: 0x553ad1f6
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000000058fb3
Faulting process id: 0x2cc

Is anyone else seeing this issue? I tried searching online and tried a few workarounds that were suggested for Win7 and Win8 but those don't work.

 

[dooderooni]

It might help if you could give more details as to how you are connecting to VPN?

Are you using the Windows client, OpenVPN etc?

I use the Viscosity VPN client and with each new build I have to remove all previous virtual adapters and fiddle about until I can connect, but using the OpenVPN GUI I can get straight on. The OpenVPN GUI will not automatically reconnect though so the Viscosity client is worth the hassle of installing.