OpenVPN not starting

[uumickey]

Hi, all.

I just got my Amahi system up and running. I purchased the OpenVPN app and installed it on the system, however, the service will not start. Every time I press Start or Restart in the web control panel it spins for a bit and then comes back with a red light, not running.

I can't find any logs that might tell me why it is refusing to start. Note, this is not connectivity related but just trying to start the process.

Any ideas on where I can look to see what's failing?

[bigfoot65]

Hello,

The dashboard server may not be accurately reporting the status. Recommend you try this from the command line as root:

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systemctl status openvpn\@amahi.service

If it reports all is ok, then don't worry about the dashboard status for now. Would also request that you add your experience to this bug report.
https://bugs.amahi.org/issues/1204

[bigfoot65]

BTW, it appears there is a permission issue that can be resolved by doing the following as root user:

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chmod 755 -R /var/run/openvpn

Once you do that, the server will show as running. We are working on a permanent solution as a reboot is likely to cause the issue to reappear.

[uumickey]

Thank you for the advice. I did this and there doesn't appear to be any change:

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[root@localhost ~]# chmod 755 -R /var/run/openvpn [root@localhost ~]# systemctl status openvpn\@amahi.service openvpn@amahi.service - OpenVPN Robust And Highly Flexible Tunneling Application On amahi Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/openvpn@.service; disabled) Active: inactive (dead)

OpenVPN service still shows as down in the control panel. However, I notice from the startup scripts that it is looking for interface tun0. I don't have a tun0:

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[root@localhost ~]# ip addr 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: em1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000 link/ether 00:25:22:b3:79:6a brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.XX.XXX/24 brd 192.168.11.255 scope global em1 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 fe80::225:22ff:feb3:796a/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

Suggestion? This is after a reboot, BTW.

[bigfoot65]

Hmmmm. Please add this to the bug:
https://bugs.amahi.org/issues/1204

Not sure what else you can do other than uninstall, reboot, then reinstall. We will have to take a look at the app to see what the problem could be once we have your input.

Please provide as many details as possible. Also check /var/log/amahi-app-installer.log for errors.

[uumickey]

Aha! I shoulda looked at the bug report earlier

As stated in the bug:

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cd /lib/systemd/system cp openvpn\@.service openvpn\@amahi.service systemctl --system daemon-reload systemctl restart openvpn\@amahi.service

Got the service to start. I will install a client in the morning and see if I can connect.

Thanks for the assist.

[bigfoot65]

Glad it is working for you now. Hopefully it will stay after reboot as well.

Please let us know if all is working correctly and update the bug accordingly.