Hi! I have a very strange situation on fedora 23, openvpn-2.3.13 , with the strange being that i don't understand what is the problem; below the log..
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN audit[1]: SERVICE_START pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=openvpn@sev-vpn comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN openvpn[19505]: NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN openvpn[19505]: Diffie-Hellman initialized with 2048 bit key
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN openvpn[19505]: Control Channel Authentication: using 'keys/ta.key' as a OpenVPN static key file
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN openvpn[19505]: Outgoing Control Channel Authentication: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN openvpn[19505]: Incoming Control Channel Authentication: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN openvpn[19505]: Socket Buffers: R=[212992->212992] S=[212992->212992]
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN openvpn[19505]: ROUTE_GATEWAY MY_PUBLIC_IP/255.255.255.128 IFACE=enp7s0 HWADDR=50:e5:49:c4:f2:e5
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN polkitd[987]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-process:19498:81878085 (system bus name :1.4046, object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.utf-8) (dis
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN openvpn[19505]: TUN/TAP device tun10 opened
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN openvpn[19505]: TUN/TAP TX queue length set to 4096
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN openvpn[19505]: do_ifconfig, tt->ipv6=0, tt->did_ifconfig_ipv6_setup=0
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN openvpn[19505]: /usr/sbin/ip link set dev tun10 up mtu 1500
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN NetworkManager[960]: <info> (tun10): new Tun device (carrier: OFF, driver: 'tun', ifindex: 12)
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN openvpn[19505]: /usr/sbin/ip addr add dev tun10 local 10.1.1.1 peer 10.1.1.2
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN NetworkManager[960]: <info> (tun10): link connected
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN openvpn[19505]: ./sev-vpn.up tun10 1500 1558 10.1.1.1 10.1.1.2 init
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN NetworkManager[960]: <info> keyfile: add connection in-memory (ba47c990-90aa-4761-a4bc-d02c8c3b85d2,"tun10")
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN NetworkManager[960]: <info> (tun10): device state change: unmanaged -> unavailable (reason 'connection-assumed') [10 20 41]
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN NetworkManager[960]: <info> (tun10): device state change: unavailable -> disconnected (reason 'connection-assumed') [20 30 41]
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN NetworkManager[960]: <info> (tun10): Activation: starting connection 'tun10' (ba47c990-90aa-4761-a4bc-d02c8c3b85d2)
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN openvpn[19505]: WARNING: Failed running command (--up/--down): could not execute external program
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN openvpn[19505]: Exiting due to fatal error
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN NetworkManager[960]: <info> (tun10): device state change: disconnected -> prepare (reason 'none') [30 40 0]
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN NetworkManager[960]: <info> (tun10): device state change: prepare -> config (reason 'none') [40 50 0]
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN NetworkManager[960]: <info> (tun10): device state change: config -> ip-config (reason 'none') [50 70 0]
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN NetworkManager[960]: <info> (tun10): device state change: ip-config -> ip-check (reason 'none') [70 80 0]
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN dbus[895]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.nm-dispatcher.service'
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN NetworkManager[960]: <info> (tun10): device state change: ip-check -> unmanaged (reason 'removed') [80 10 36]
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN NetworkManager[960]: <warn> (tun10): failed to disable userspace IPv6LL address handling
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN systemd[1]: Starting Network Manager Script Dispatcher Service...
-- Subject: Unit NetworkManager-dispatcher.service has begun start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit NetworkManager-dispatcher.service has begun starting up.
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN dbus[895]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher'
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN systemd[1]: Started Network Manager Script Dispatcher Service.
-- Subject: Unit NetworkManager-dispatcher.service has finished start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit NetworkManager-dispatcher.service has finished starting up.
--
-- The start-up result is done.
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN audit[1]: SERVICE_START pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=NetworkManager-dispatcher comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN nm-dispatcher[19515]: Dispatching action 'pre-up' for tun10
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN systemd[1]:
openvpn@sev-vpn.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN systemd[1]:
openvpn@sev-vpn.service: Unit entered failed state.
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN systemd[1]:
openvpn@sev-vpn.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Dec 10 23:46:09 MY_FQDN audit[1]: SERVICE_STOP pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=openvpn@sev-vpn comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=failed'
It would seem that is a bad interaction with NetworkManager .. does anyone know o solution to this?
Thank you!
Adrian