L2TP over IPsec VPN Manager

L2tpIPsecVpnControlDaemon is either not started or connection to it failed

Asked by Rene van Dalen

Hi,

Am trying version 1.0.9 on Redhat 6.3

When trying to launch a connection I get the error:
[ERROR 99] L2tpIPsecVpnControlDaemon is either not started or connection to it failed

Checking /var/log/messages I see the following errors:
Nov 21 18:19:47 xxxxx L2tpIPsecVpn: Failed to open proc command line file "/proc/1/comm"
Nov 21 18:19:47 xxxxx L2tpIPsecVpn: Failed to open proc command line file "/proc/10/comm"
Nov 21 18:19:47 xxxxx L2tpIPsecVpn: Failed to open proc command line file "/proc/11/comm"
Nov 21 18:19:47 xxxxx L2tpIPsecVpn: Failed to open proc command line file "/proc/110/comm"
Nov 21 18:19:47 xxxxx L2tpIPsecVpn: Failed to open proc command line file "/proc/12/comm"
.
. removed multiple lines....repeating with different numbers
.
Nov 21 18:19:47 xxxxx L2tpIPsecVpn: Failed to open proc command line file "/proc/79/comm"
Nov 21 18:19:47 xxxxx L2tpIPsecVpn: Failed to open proc command line file "/proc/8/comm"
Nov 21 18:19:47 xxxxx L2tpIPsecVpn: Failed to open proc command line file "/proc/9/comm"
Nov 21 18:19:47 xxxxx L2tpIPsecVpn: Failed to open proc command line file "/proc/971/comm"
Nov 21 18:20:32 xxxxx L2tpIPsecVpn: L2tpIPsecVpn : listen on local socket failed; QLocalServer::listen: Address in use
Nov 21 18:20:32 xxxxx L2tpIPsecVpn: Warning: VPNControlTask: Failed to open pipe /var/log/l2tpipsecvpn.pipe
Nov 21 18:20:32 xxxxx L2tpIPsecVpn: QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket specified

I also noticed that the file /var/log/l2tpipsecvpn.pipe is only generated when I launch as root
Seems a normal user doesn't have the rights to create it... I tried giving write access to /var/log for normal users, but that also didn't help.

Any idea what this could be ?

Regards,

Rene

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Werner Jaeger (werner-jaeger) said : 		#1

I assume you downloaded it from my ubuntu ppa or compiled it from the source. If so, try to install the Fedora packkage:

cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:wejaeger/Fedora_16/home:wejaeger.repo
yum install l2tp-ipsec-vpn

This should be more compatible to Redhat 6.3, but not sure if this really works.

Regards

Werner

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Rene van Dalen (rene-van-dalen) said : 		#2

Werner,

I indeed compiled from source. Your Fedora Package doesn't work on Redhat 6.3 as it requires libc 2.14 (RH 6.3 has 2.12).
However there was one thing I noticed when looking at your repos.... that there is a separate daemon that needs to be installed as well... After I compiled and installed also the daemon the above messages went away.
So in the end it turned out to be an incomplete install on my side.....

Thanks a lot for your help !