OpenVPN Client no tun0 device

eehmke

I upgraded my notebook from Mint17 (Ubuntu 14.04) to Mint18 (Ubuntu 16.04). I had the owncloud client run as a service and it used to work fine. Now I can start the service but the tun0 device is not created. I can start owncloud via the network manager, then it gets a tun0 device fine, but the network configuration is not usable, it installs the openvpn network as the default route, that is not what I want. I need the openvpn network as a separate network where the default route still runs directly via my wlan0.

Why can't I use the service anymore?

TinCanTech

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eehmke

openvpn version is 2.3.10-1ubuntu2
client
dev tun0
proto udp
remote xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 1194
resolv-retry infinite
nobind
user nobody
group nobody
persist-key
persist-tun
ca /etc/openvpn/keys/ca.crt
cert /etc/openvpn/keys/xxx.crt
key /etc/openvpn/keys/xxx.key
...

eehmke

Problem solved. The group nobody did not exist.