Testing of openvpn-2.6-meetup branch

[Adolf Belka <adolf.belka@ipfire.org>]

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Hi Michael,

So I did a pull of the openvpn-2.6-meetup branch from your repo. I noticed that it was using OpenVPN-2.6.9 and 2.6.12 is available now so I updated the openvpn to 2.6.12 and did  a build.

Then I installed the created iso and the OpenVPN WUI page came up with an Internal Server Error.

The logs indicated that it couldn't find the Compress::Raw::Zlib perl module.

That was one of the separate perl modules removed from the system because they were now in the core.

I checked the perl rootfile on the openvpn-2.6.meetup branch and it had the

usr/lib/perl5/5.36.0/xxxMACHINExxx-linux-thread-multi/Compress/Raw/Zlib.pm line commented out.

So I uncommented that line in the rootfile and rebuilt the branch and now the OpenVPN WUI page was shown okay.

However when I tried to create a client connection I kept getting an "Oops something went wrong Invalid input" message but it didn't say what was invalid.

I then restored a backup with my existing OpenVPN root/host and client settings and using the pencil icon to go into edit mode for one of the known working client connections when I just pressed the Save button without changing anything it again gave me the Invalid input message.

The other issue I found was that the OpenVPN Server page was constantly showing Stopped.

At this point I did a rebuild of the openvpn-2.6-meetup branch with the previous 2.6.9 OpenVPN but the same as above occurred, again with a fresh client connection creation or with the restored known working client connections.

I then tried to start the openvpn from the command line to see what messages it cam up with.

I tried first of all using the restart command and got

/usr/local/bin/openvpnctrl rw restart
Stopping OpenVPN Authenticator...    Not running.                                     [ WARN ]
Stopping OpenVPN Roadwarrior Server...                                                [ FAIL ]
Starting OpenVPN Roadwarrior Server...
Unable to continue: /var/run/openvpn-rw.pid exists                                    [ WARN ]
Starting OpenVPN Authenticator... [  OK  ]

so I checked and the openvpn-rw.pid file was present. So I then removed that file and ran the status command

/usr/local/bin/openvpnctrl rw status
/usr/sbin/openvpn is not running.

Then I ran the start command

/usr/local/bin/openvpnctrl rw start
Starting OpenVPN Roadwarrior Server...                                                [  OK  ]
Starting OpenVPN Authenticator... [  OK  ]

So tried the status command again

/usr/local/bin/openvpnctrl rw status
openvpn is running with Process ID(s)  6883.

So good the server is running but when I looked at the OpenVPN WUI page it still showed Stopped, also on the Services page.

I then pressed the Save button on the OpenVPN WUI  main page and then checked the status again and got

/usr/local/bin/openvpnctrl rw status
/usr/sbin/openvpn is not running but /var/run/openvpn-rw.pid exists.

So doing the save caused the server to stop but leave the pid in place.


So I am not sure what has changed between our meetup and what I am building now. As far as I can tell from the branch in the repo, nothing has changed since 23rd Sept.

Maybe how I have done the pull of the repo is incorrect in some way and I am ending up in some mixed up situation but as it stands I definitely cannot test anything.

I will try creating a complete new copy of that branch on my system to see if anything gets better but I am also open to any suggestions of what I might have done wrong.


Regards,

Adolf