Hi James et al, I just came back from holidays and got this bug report in Debian. (Seems like IBM is using OpenVPN). I didn't have time to look at it yet, but I'm sure you'll handle it better anyway :)
Best regards, Alberto ----- Forwarded message from Richard A Nelson <[email protected]> ----- From: Richard A Nelson <[email protected]> Reply-To: Richard A Nelson <[email protected]>, [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Bug#158404: openvpn: Improper error handling List-Post: [email protected] Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 17:28:37 -0400 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.5 required=5.0 tests=SENT_BY_BTS,FORGED_RCVD_FOUND version=2.20 Package: openvpn Version: 1.3.0-1 Severity: important I often get a flood of these messages: openvpn[1239]: read from UDP: Resource temporarily unavailable (errno=11) The condition persists for a bit, and then clears up... While the errors are occuring, occasionally the session will drop ;( It seems to be improper handling of EAGAIN ! The potential solutions would most likely be: 1) re-try the systemcall 2) redrive the read loop 3) set blocking IO -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Kernel Version: Linux badlands.lexington.ibm.com 2.4.20-pre4-ac1 #13 Sat Aug 24 19:11:43 EDT 2002 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux Versions of the packages openvpn depends on: ii libc6 2.2.5-14 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone ii liblzo1 1.07-1 A real-time data compression library. ii libssl0.9.6 0.9.6g-2 SSL shared libraries ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta | They that give up essential liberty [email protected] | to obtain a little temporary safety Encrypted mail preferred | deserve neither liberty nor safety. Key fingerprint = 9782 04E7 2B75 405C F5E9 0C81 C514 AF8E 4BA4 01C3
