[Openswan Users] IPsec crashes when trying to start

[darkrealm]

how exacty do i enable dumpdir=/tmp?

and i've installed it from this file:
openswan-2.4.0rc3-1.i386.rpm

and how do i use gdb on that file?

thanks.

On 9/15/05, Paul Wouters <paul at xelerance.com> wrote:
> 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
> 


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