[Openswan Users] IPsec crashes when trying to start

[Paul Wouters]

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, darkrealm wrote:

> I'm having a lot of troubles getting openswan to work,
>
> I know you probably get a lot of questions like this but though i've
> googled and everything i cannot find an answer to my questions.
>
> First one is this, When i try to do
> 'service ipsec start'
>
> my terminal crashes totally. the server itself is still active and i
> can create a new SSH connection and kill service but for some reason
> it does not stop itself.
>
> I have seen on my screen it self (i have all syslog messages
> redirected to my screen attached to the server) a lot of things but i
> cannot seem to get this to a file and as such i cannot place it here.
>
> when i do ipsec verify i get this:
>
> Version check and ipsec on-path                                 [OK]
> Linux Openswan U2.4.0rc3/K2.6.5-1.358 (netkey)
> Checking for IPsec support in kernel                            [OK]
> Checking for RSA private key (/etc/ipsec.secrets)               [FAILED]
> ipsec showhostkey: no default key in "/etc/ipsec.secrets"
> Checking that pluto is running                                  [FAILED]
> whack: Pluto is not running (no "/var/run/pluto/pluto.ctl")

it crashed. If this is openswan 2.4.0 or up, please get me a trace by
enabling dumpdir=/tmp and using gdb on the core file in /tmp. If this 
is openswan 2.2.x or 2.3.x, please upgrade.

Paul