Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem starting "openvpn" after recenet upgrade

[Joseph]

On 12/27/12 16:00, Jörg Schaible wrote:
>Joseph wrote:
>
>> I'm having problem starting openvpn after recent upgrade.
>>
>> When I try to start it I get a normal respond:
>>
>> openvpn.client_clinic_atom start
>>   * Starting openvpn.client_clinic_atom ...                [ ok ]
>>   * WARNING: openvpn.client_clinic_atom has started, but is inactive
>>
>> but ifconfig is not showing this connection in addition it looks strange,
>> not as it used to:
>>
>> ifconfig
>> eth1: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
>>          inet 10.0.0.100  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 10.0.0.255
>>          inet6 fe80::21b:21ff:feb8:27b6  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
>>          ether 00:1b:21:b8:27:b6  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
>>          RX packets 16129  bytes 9087618 (8.6 MiB)
>>          RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
>>          TX packets 15573  bytes 2667489 (2.5 MiB)
>>          TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
>>          device interrupt 16  memory 0xfddc0000-fdde0000
>>
>> lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 16436
>>          inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
>>          inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10<host>
>>          loop  txqueuelen 0  (Local Loopback)
>>          RX packets 1218  bytes 1433926 (1.3 MiB)
>>          RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
>>          TX packets 1218  bytes 1433926 (1.3 MiB)
>>          TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
>>
>
>Known problem. Rebuild openvpn and it works again. The build adds some hard
>coded paths for some net-tools utilities and the location of ifconfig has
>changed :-/
>
>- Jörg

Yes, you are correct. Rebuilding openvpn worked; thank you.


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