Did any changes to F14 / A6 break OpenVPN?

[rbmattis]

OpenVPN has worked fine between my win7 client and HDA but broke about week ago. Now the client hangs and the server prints the following message:

TCP/UDP: Socket bind failed on local address [undef]:1194: Address already in use

I ran lsof and see nothing besides openvpn listening on 1194... I tried restarting openvpn, nothing.

ideas?

[bigfoot65]

Have you tried restarting openvpn service or the HDA? Nothing has been changed to Fedora 14 that I am aware in quite some time.

[rbmattis]

Ah, restarting openvpn was failing, because openvpn would shutdown, but monit would restart it before the first version of openvpn released port 1194. killing monit, then openvpn, restarting openvpn, then restarting monit fixed it.

Maybe monit should delay restarting openvpn for 10-15 seconds.

Still not sure what broke openvpn in the first place, I think it may have been a simultaneous log in from two remote clients.

thanks,
rb

[bigfoot65]

There have been no changes to Fedora 14 or Amahi that I am aware. Hard to say why it broke, but at least you got it working again.

If you by chance do figure out the root cause, please let us know.