[Openswan Users] whack: is Pluto running? connect() for "/var/run/pluto/pluto.ctl" failed (111 Connection refused)

[Samir Hussain]

Hello,
  It seems you have a crash in the middle. Are your logs showing
anything. You may have to uncomment plutodebug (and set it to control
and parsing. For exmaple:

plutodebug="control parsing"

Samir

On 2019-04-04 6:56 p.m., jchludzinski wrote:
> Now that I've solved my "Why isn't '--configdir' working with
> rsasigkey?" problem, when I restart IPSec is getting:
> 
> # systemctl status ipsec
> ● ipsec.service - LSB: Start Openswan IPsec at boot time
>    Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/ipsec; generated; vendor preset: enabled)
>    Active: active (running) since Thu 2019-04-04 06:10:36 EDT; 17min ago
>      Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
>   Process: 445 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/ipsec start (code=exited,
> status=0/SUCCESS)
>    CGroup: /system.slice/ipsec.service
>            ├─29232 /bin/sh /usr/local/lib/ipsec/_plutorun --debug
> --uniqueids yes --force_busy no --nocrsend no --strictcrlpolicy no
> --nat_traversal yes --keep_alive --protostack auto --force_keepalive
>            └─29233 sleep 10
> 
> Apr 04 06:28:24 raspberrypi ipsec__plutorun[29125]: 002 adding interface
> eth0/eth0 10.200.251.172:4500
> Apr 04 06:28:24 raspberrypi ipsec__plutorun[29125]: 002 adding interface
> lo/lo 127.0.0.1:500 (AF_INET)
> Apr 04 06:28:24 raspberrypi ipsec__plutorun[29125]: 002 adding interface
> lo/lo 127.0.0.1:4500
> Apr 04 06:28:24 raspberrypi ipsec__plutorun[29125]: 002 adding interface
> lo/lo ::1:500 (AF_INET6)
> Apr 04 06:28:24 raspberrypi ipsec__plutorun[29125]: 002 loading secrets
> from "/etc/ipsec.secrets"
> Apr 04 06:28:24 raspberrypi ipsec__plutorun[29125]: 002 loading secrets
> from "/etc/ipsec.d/tpm0001.secrets"
> Apr 04 06:28:24 raspberrypi ipsec__plutorun[29125]: Aborted (core dumped)
> Apr 04 06:28:24 raspberrypi ipsec__plutorun[29125]: whack: is Pluto
> running?  connect() for "/var/run/pluto/pluto.ctl" failed (111
> Connection refused)
> Apr 04 06:28:24 raspberrypi ipsec__plutorun[29125]: ...could not route
> conn "tpm0001-tpmserver"
> Apr 04 06:28:24 raspberrypi ipsec__plutorun[29125]: whack: is Pluto
> running?  connect() for "/var/run/pluto/pluto.ctl" failed (111
> Connection refused)
> 
> Any ideas about: whack: is Pluto running?  connect() for
> "/var/run/pluto/pluto.ctl" failed (111 Connection refused) ?
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