Bug 618722 – net-vpn/openvpn-2.4.2 - incorrect installation of systemd units and tmpfiles.d config

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Alexander Tsoy 2017-05-17 08:21:09 UTC]

Created attachment 472898 [details]
openvpn-2.4.2:20170517-072707.log.gz

$ qlist openvpn | grep tmpfile
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/openvpn.conf
/usr/lib64/tmpfiles.d/openvpn.conf

$ qlist openvpn | grep systemd
/usr/lib/systemd/system/openvpn-server@.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/openvpn-client@.service
/usr/lib64/systemd/system/openvpn-server@.service
/usr/lib64/systemd/system/openvpn-client@.service

$ cat /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/openvpn.conf
D /var/run/openvpn 0710 root openvpn -

$ cat /usr/lib64/tmpfiles.d/openvpn.conf
d /run/openvpn-client 0710 root root -
d /run/openvpn-server 0710 root root -

[Comment 1 Alexander Tsoy 2017-05-17 08:22:16 UTC]

Created attachment 472900 [details, diff]
openvpn-9999 patch

Patch for 2.4.2 and 9999

[Comment 2 Alexander Tsoy 2017-05-17 08:49:03 UTC]

To clarify this a bit: openvpn currently doesn't start with systemd due to missing /run/openvpn-{client,server} directories.

[Comment 3 Alexander Tsoy 2017-05-17 08:50:44 UTC]

Created attachment 472906 [details, diff]
0001-net-vpn-openvpn-fix-installation-of-systemd-units-an.patch

Proper git patch. Just in the case you prefer that.

[Comment 4 Alexander Tsoy 2017-05-17 08:57:32 UTC]

(In reply to Alexander Tsoy from comment #2)
> To clarify this a bit: openvpn currently doesn't start with systemd due to
> missing /run/openvpn-{client,server} directories.

More specifically, it fails to start only in server mode due to --status option:

$ grep ExecStart /usr/lib/systemd/system/openvpn-server@.service 
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/openvpn --status %t/openvpn-server/status-%i.log --status-version 2 --suppress-timestamps --config %i.conf

[Comment 5 lou 2017-05-18 14:23:19 UTC]

I'm running into a similar problem with 2.4.2, but I'm not using systemd...

[ebuild   R    ] net-vpn/openvpn-2.4.2::gentoo  USE="examples lzo pam plugins ssl -down-root -inotify -iproute2 (-libressl) -lz4 -mbedtls -pkcs11 (-polarssl) (-selinux) -static -systemd {-test}" 0 KiB

When trying to start...

/etc/init.d/openvpn start
 * Caching service dependencies ...                                                                                                   [ ok ]
 * Starting openvpn ...
 * start-stop-daemon: failed to start `/usr/sbin/openvpn'
 * Check your logs to see why startup failed                                                                                          [ !! ]
 * ERROR: openvpn failed to start

Nothing in my logs. Rolling back for now.

[Comment 6 Manuel Rüger (RETIRED) 2017-05-28 22:40:05 UTC]

Thanks, applied as 

commit a85313eceb8e3e8d4031051c0d35336e41f42d7d (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD)
Author: Alexander Tsoy <[e-mail]>
Date:   Wed May 17 11:13:29 2017 +0300

    net-vpn/openvpn: fix installation of systemd units and tmpfiles
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/618722