Problem also occurs on a 10.04.1 machine, where OpenVPN is supposed to be listening to connections coming in on a bridged interface (ultimately to place client sessions on that same interface).
Section of syslog: Dec 8 11:45:40 moonshine ovpn-areo[849]: TCP/UDP: Socket bind failed on local address [AF_INET]10.1.1.2:1194: Cannot assign requested address Dec 8 11:45:40 moonshine ovpn-areo[849]: Exiting Dec 8 11:45:41 moonshine kernel: [ 9.870963] e1000e: officenet NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX/TX Dec 8 11:45:41 moonshine kernel: [ 9.871441] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): officenet: link becomes ready Dec 8 11:45:41 moonshine kernel: [ 9.871659] officebr: port 1(officenet) entering learning state Dec 8 11:45:41 moonshine ntpd[1179]: listening on 127.0.0.1 Dec 8 11:45:41 moonshine ntpd[1179]: listening on 10.90.1.1 Dec 8 11:45:41 moonshine ntpd[1179]: listening on ::1 Dec 8 11:45:41 moonshine ntpd[1179]: listening on fe80::206:4fff:fe86:e747%prodnet Dec 8 11:45:41 moonshine ntpd[1179]: listening on fe80::213:72ff:fe2d:ddd6%officenet Dec 8 11:45:41 moonshine ntpd[1179]: fatal: bind: Cannot assign requested address Dec 8 11:45:41 moonshine ntpd[1178]: dispatch_imsg in main: pipe closed Dec 8 11:45:41 moonshine ntpd[1178]: Terminating Dec 8 11:45:43 moonshine kernel: [ 11.909297] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team Dec 8 11:45:43 moonshine kernel: [ 11.962461] nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (16384 buckets, 65536 max) Dec 8 11:45:43 moonshine kernel: [ 11.962707] CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT is deprecated and will be removed soon. Please use Dec 8 11:45:43 moonshine kernel: [ 11.962710] nf_conntrack.acct=1 kernel parameter, acct=1 nf_conntrack module option or Dec 8 11:45:43 moonshine kernel: [ 11.962712] sysctl net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_acct=1 to enable it. Dec 8 11:45:48 moonshine kernel: [ 17.021256] prodnet: no IPv6 routers present Dec 8 11:45:48 moonshine kernel: [ 17.490006] officebr: no IPv6 routers present Dec 8 11:45:50 moonshine kernel: [ 18.870010] officebr: port 1(officenet) entering forwarding state Looking at that log segment, we can also see that ntpd has failed in the same way, so this is not an openvpn-specific problem -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/516016 Title: [karmic] openvpn service starts before dhclient -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
