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