NetworkManager weirdness with sysvinit?

[bigbenaugust]

I first noticed this last week. I was in my usual awesome session and went to connect to the work VPN with NetworkManager as always and got a "You are not authorized to configure networking." error from NetworkManager.
I tried again in Xfce, without rebooting, and it worked.
This morning, I couldn't do it in either session until I rebooted with systemd.
I am still a member of the netdev group, which I believe is the one Network Manager uses. That hasn't changed since I installed MX 19 when it came out.
Is anyone aware of some weirdness between NetworkManager and sysvinit?
(the usual troubleshooting info will follow)

Of course, I try to reproduce it again, and I can't. Everything works fine with sysvinit.

[bigbenaugust]

Troubleshooting info:

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System:    Host: malchus Kernel: 4.19.0-6-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Awesome 4.3 
           Distro: MX-19_x64 patito feo October 21  2019 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Latitude E7240 v: 01 serial: <root required> 
           Mobo: Dell model: 05PTPV v: A00 serial: <root required> UEFI: Dell v: A09 date: 05/01/2014 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 25.4 Wh condition: 25.4/31.4 Wh (81%) 
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i7-4600U bits: 64 type: MT MCP L2 cache: 4096 KiB 
           Speed: 997 MHz min/max: 800/3300 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 998 2: 998 3: 998 4: 1002 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: intel resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Haswell Mobile v: 4.5 Mesa 18.3.6 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Haswell-ULT HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
           Device-2: Intel 8 Series HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-6-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Intel Ethernet I218-LM driver: e1000e 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: ec:f4:bb:61:0e:90 
           Device-2: Intel Wireless 7260 driver: iwlwifi 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: f8:16:54:74:c6:2e 
           IF-ID-1: vpn0 state: up speed: 10 Mbps duplex: full mac: N/A 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 41.83 GiB (17.5%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: LITE-ON model: LMH-256V2M-11 MSATA 256GB size: 238.47 GiB 
RAID:      Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 230.98 GiB used: 41.75 GiB (18.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0 
           ID-2: /boot size: 487.9 MiB used: 84.8 MiB (17.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 1.98 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/dm-1 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 44.0 C mobo: 33.0 C sodimm: 30.0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 
Info:      Processes: 158 Uptime: 5m Memory: 15.57 GiB used: 338.9 MiB (2.1%) Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.36