Bug 538598 – net-misc/openvpn - systemctl start [e-mail]: Options error: --writepid fails with '/var/run/openvpn/openvpn.pid': No such file or directory

• Status: UNCONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Horea Christian 2015-02-02 22:35:46 UTC]

I emerged and configured openvpn according to the gentoo wiki. All works fine, but starting the systemd service fails.

`systemctl start [e-mail]` fails with `Options error: --writepid fails with '/var/run/openvpn/openvpn.pid': No such file or directory` (as logged under `/etc/openvpn/openvpn.log`)

This is fixed by manually creating the said pid file.

[Comment 1 Horea Christian 2015-02-02 22:36:12 UTC]

Portage 2.2.15 (python 2.7.9-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/gnome/systemd, gcc-4.8.3, glibc-2.20-r1, 3.18.1-gentoo x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-3.18.1-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem:     5092296 total,    733892 free
KiB Swap:    2097148 total,    984616 free
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 20:00:01 +0000
sh bash 4.3_p33
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.24 p1.4) 2.24
app-shells/bash:          4.3_p33
dev-java/java-config:     2.2.0
dev-lang/perl:            5.20.1-r4
dev-lang/python:          2.7.9-r1, 3.3.5-r1, 3.4.2
dev-util/cmake:           3.1.0
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.28-r2
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.2
sys-apps/openrc:          0.13.6
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.6-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13, 2.69
sys-devel/automake:       1.11.6, 1.14.1, 1.15
sys-devel/binutils:       2.24-r3
sys-devel/gcc:            4.4.7, 4.8.3, 4.9.2
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.8
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.5
sys-devel/make:           4.1-r1
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.18 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.20-r1
Repositories: gentoo science chymeric
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/easy-rsa /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync metadata-transfer news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/sci /usr/local/portage/chymeric"
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Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, SYNC, USE_PYTHON

[Comment 2 Mike Gilbert 2015-02-02 22:44:37 UTC]

You either need to run systemd-tmpfiles --create openvpn.conf, or reboot to create the /var/run/openvpn directory.

[Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2015-02-03 12:13:58 UTC]

Ebuilds shouldn't create any PID files, ever.