[Openswan Users] Feb 7 12:54:11 u15320172 pluto[5141]: FATAL ERROR: Failed to bind bcast socket in init_netlink() - Perhaps kernel was not compiled with CONFIG_XFRM. Errno 2: No such file or directory

[Paul Wouters]

On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, Jose Estuardo Avila wrote:

> Subject: [Openswan Users] Feb 7 12:54:11 u15320172 pluto[5141]: FATAL ERROR:
>     Failed to bind bcast socket in init_netlink() - Perhaps kernel was not
>     compiled with CONFIG_XFRM. Errno 2: No such file or directory
>

> Feb  7 12:54:11 u15320172 pluto[5141]: FATAL ERROR: Failed to bind
> bcast socket in init_netlink() - Perhaps kernel was not compiled with
> CONFIG_XFRM. Errno 2: No such file or directory

Looks like a missing kernel option.

Your ipsec barf agrees:

> + test -f /proc/config.gz
> + zcat /proc/config.gz
> + egrep 'CONFIG_IPSEC|CONFIG_KLIPS|CONFIG_NET_KEY|CONFIG_INET|
> CONFIG_IP|CONFIG_HW_RANDOM|CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV|_XFRM'
> # CONFIG_IPC_NS is not set
> CONFIG_XFRM=y
> # CONFIG_XFRM_USER is not set

you need CONFIG_XFRM_USER

Paul