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[Bgs]

>>Jan  4 00:02:20 bgs pluto[495]: FATAL ERROR: Failed to bind bcast socket in
>>init_netlink(). Errno 2: No such file or directory
>>
>>I managed to strace pluto:
>>
>>[pid  9016] bind(9, {sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=9016, groups=00000003}, 12) =
>>-1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>>
>>It might help to somebody more knowledged in the source :)
> 
> 
> It would be more usefil to set a gdb breakpoint so you can catch the bind()
> call arguments. I'll see if I can give you a patched version of server.c that
> at least logs the attempted ip, so w ecan diagnose this further.


To me it seems that the relevant line is in kernel_netlink.c:165 om the 
init_netlink() definition.