On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 01:36:33PM -0000, James Yonan wrote: > Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <a...@inittab.org> said: > > > Hi all, > > > > After I decided to push OpenVPN 2.0 into Debian for future inclusion in > > Sarge, I got this [1] bug report from one Debian user. It seems that 2.0 > > doesn't get along well with udev, as opposed to 1.6. I don't use udev, > > so I can't really tell, but has anything changed from 1.6 to 2.0 in the > > way the device is handled? > > > > The suspicious message is: > > > > Oct 16 16:31:12 gimli wait_for_sysfs[5873]: error: wait_for_sysfs needs an > update to handle the device '/class/net/tun0' properly, please report to > <linux-hotplug-de...@lists.sourceforge.net> > > > > The bug submitter claims that OpenVPN 1.6 deals correctly with it. Maybe > > it has something to do with device probing? > > The TUN/TAP handling code in 2.0 is nearly identical to the 1.6 code. The > only change I can think of is the setting of txqueuelen on the TUN/TAP driver.
Ok > Incidentally, the error shown in the bug report looks like he is trying to > make a tunnel between 1.6 and 2.0 using incompatible key-method parameters. > He needs to set --key-method 2 on the 1.6 side. Has this changed between 1.6 and 2 beta11? The man page says --key-method defaults to 1 and the ChangeLog does not say otherwise. I don't think this guy changed that to 2 just after he upgraded the package. I'll ask him anyway, yo never know... Could a problem with the TUN/TAP driver confuse the --key-method handling code? > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=276799 > > > > > > P.S. James, did you find out anything about this [2]? Do you think it > > could be due to hardware (RAM) problem? I'm thinking about tagging it > > irreproducible. > > Yes, I would tend to mark it as irreproducible for now. I tried to contact > him for more info, but haven't received any response. Ok, thanks a lot. I'll tag it 'unreproducible' and 'moreinfo' so 'the ball will be on his side'. :) -- Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta | BOFH excuse #47: agi@(inittab.org|debian.org)| Complete Transient Lockout Encrypted mail preferred | Key fingerprint = 9782 04E7 2B75 405C F5E9 0C81 C514 AF8E 4BA4 01C3