Second VPN network fails to start

[Lars Kruse]

Hello Robert,


Am Thu, 23 May 2019 14:56:50 +0700
schrieb "Robert Horgan" <robert at gainplus.asia>:

> Could this be as simple as a name conflict ("tun0" for both VPN setups)?
> 
> The first VPN that comes up is now gainplus after changing details above so no possible conflict
> 
> ip a shows:
> 
> 5: gainplus: <POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UNKNOWN group default qlen 500
>     link/none
>     inet 10.0.0.51/24 scope global gainplus
> 	   valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

The above address is "10.0.0.51/24" - but you expected
"10.3.0.51/24" (according to your scripts) - correct?
In this case you need to find out, why the scripts are not called properly (or
what else may be executed in parallel, that messes with your interface setup).


> If not: do you find any information in your local logs?
> (e.g. /var/log/daemon.log)
> 
> no  /var/log/daemon.log exists but in /var/log/syslog displays these errors, but I am confused about resolving them!
> 
> May 23 14:35:14 db2 systemd[1]: tinc at VPN1.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
> May 23 14:35:14 db2 systemd[1]: tinc at VPN1.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1165.
> May 23 14:35:14 db2 systemd[1]: Stopped Tinc net VPN1.
> May 23 14:35:14 db2 systemd[1]: Started Tinc net VPN1.
> May 23 14:35:14 db2 systemd[31386]: tinc at VPN1.service: Changing to the requested working directory failed: No such file or directory
> May 23 14:35:14 db2 systemd[31386]: tinc at VPN1.service: Failed at step CHDIR spawning /usr/sbin/tincd: No such file or directory
> May 23 14:35:14 db2 systemd[1]: tinc at VPN1.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=200/CHDIR

The above lines look a bit weird.
Which distribution do you use?
Did you take a look at the bug tracker of your distribution in order to find
out, where the two error messages above come from?
But I am quite sure, that this problem is unrelated to the interface issue, that
you are experiencing.

Cheers,
Lars