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If you have trouble with building it, please run yay -Scc or yay -Sc.

FYI. I replaced gdbuspp-git with gdbuspp in the PKGBUILD dependency, and it seems that the build fails because the locally cached PKGBUILD is not updated.

To anyone wondering how to get openvpn3 to work again, I simply uninstalled and reinstalled it:

yay -R openvpn3

yay -S openvpn3

This is the error it solved:

openvpn3/session-start: ** ERROR ** Could not start new VPN session: New tunnel did not respon

I have OpenVPN config that worked for a long time already and it broke. One problem was due to change of internet provided and I solved it. But I got another one. Previously I was able to activate a tunnel as unprivileged user, but now I can do it only as root. I.e. everything works if openvpn is started as root user, but if I start it as a normal user I have: ERROR: Cannot ioctl TUNSETIFF tun: Operation not permitted (errno=1) As I haven't changed anything by myself (only regular system updates) so I would like to seek an advice about what might have changed and how to fix it.

@ehlegeth This happens to me from time to time. I think that it might have to do with updating some core dependencies like glibc or something like that. Everytime this happens, I have to rebuild the package and reinstall it, and it normally works. But since I use it for work and can't afford to be stuck outside the vpn, I test the update in a separate environment before updating my work machine.

JFYI, couldn't start a session today (it was ok last thu), reinstalled the package and then the problem is solved.

openvpn3/session-start: ** ERROR ** Could not start new VPN session: New tunnel did not respon

# openvpn3-admin version --services
OpenVPN 3 D-Bus services:
[...]
  - Network Configuration Service
    (unkown binary):                         (inaccessible)
[...]

do an upgrade first

sudo pacman -Syu

Then I can build successfully

fyi, my tests failed with

Found ninja-1.12.1 at /usr/bin/ninja
Cleaning... 0 files.
[77/78] Linking target src/tests/ovpncli-netcfg
ninja: Entering directory `/home/foo/.cache/paru/clone/openvpn3/src/_builddir'
ninja: no work to do.
1/7 openvpn3-linux:standalone / logevent-selftest                      OK              0.02s
2/7 openvpn3-linux:standalone / netcfg-changeevent-selftest            OK              0.01s
3/7 openvpn3-linux:standalone / netcfg-dns-direct-file-selftest        OK              0.01s
4/7 openvpn3-linux:dbus / request-queue-test                           OK              1.81s
5/7 openvpn3-linux:dbus / platforminfo                                 FAIL            9.14s   killed by signal 6 SIGABRT
>>> MSAN_OPTIONS=halt_on_error=1:abort_on_error=1:print_summary=1:print_stacktrace=1 MESON_TEST_ITERATION=1 UBSAN_OPTIONS=halt_on_error=1:abort_on_error=1:print_summary=1:print_stacktrace=1 ASAN_OPTIONS=halt_on_error=1:abort_on_error=1:print_summary=1 MALLOC_PERTURB_=103 /home/foo/.cache/paru/clone/openvpn3/src/_builddir/src/tests/platforminfo

6/7 openvpn3-linux:unit / unit-tests                                   FAIL            9.19s   exit status 1
>>> MSAN_OPTIONS=halt_on_error=1:abort_on_error=1:print_summary=1:print_stacktrace=1 MALLOC_PERTURB_=254 MESON_TEST_ITERATION=1 ASAN_OPTIONS=halt_on_error=1:abort_on_error=1:print_summary=1 UBSAN_OPTIONS=halt_on_error=1:abort_on_error=1:print_summary=1:print_stacktrace=1 /home/foo/.cache/paru/clone/openvpn3/src/_builddir/src/tests/unit/unit-tests

7/7 openvpn3-linux:post-install / config-override-selftest             SKIP           19.21s   exit status 77

Ok:                 4
Expected Fail:      0
Fail:               2
Unexpected Pass:    0
Skipped:            1
Timeout:            0

Full log written to /home/foo/.cache/paru/clone/openvpn3/src/_builddir/meson-logs/testlog.txt
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in check().
    Aborting...
error: failed to build 'openvpn3-24-2':
error: packages failed to build: openvpn3-24-2

turns out, that my systemd-hostnamed service was masked so the dbus interface for org.freedesktop.hostname1 did not work.

I was not able to build it with yay (ran yay -Scc and yay -Sc before).

It failed with:

ninja: Entering directory `/home/user/.cache/yay/openvpn3/src/_builddir'
[149/171] Generating src/shell/bash-completion/bash-completion-openvpn2 with a custom command (wrapped by meson to capture output)
FAILED: src/shell/bash-completion/openvpn2 
/usr/bin/meson --internal exe --capture src/shell/bash-completion/openvpn2 -- /home/user/.cache/yay/openvpn3/src/openvpn3-linux-23/src/shell/bash-completion/gen-openvpn2-completion.py --python-source-dir /home/user/.cache/yay/openvpn3/src/openvpn3-linux-23/src/python/openvpn3
--- stderr ---
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/user/.cache/yay/openvpn3/src/openvpn3-linux-23/src/shell/bash-completion/gen-openvpn2-completion.py", line 96, in <module>
    constants = importlib.import_module('openvpn3.constants',
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/importlib/__init__.py", line 90, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1387, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1360, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1324, in _find_and_load_unlocked
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'openvpn3.constants'

[163/171] Linking target src/ovpn3cli/openvpn3
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.

When trying to search for the problem, I first tried it without yay (checkout aur git and makepkg -si) which also failed - however, running it a second time successfully built...

yay -Sc and yay -Scc didn't work for me, still got the same error:

==> Missing dependencies:
  -> gdbuspp>=2

I had to remove openvpn3 and gdbuspp using yay -R openvpn3 gdbuspp-git and then I could install openvpn3 with yay -S openvpn3

To fix failure of the 'openvpn3-linux:post-install / config-override-selftest' test, I've done things from the pinned comments but it didn't solve the problem. I had to remove openvpn3 (including gdbuspp) and install openvpn3 to fix it.

Cannot build the most recent version of openvpn3: In file included from src/dco/dco-keyconfig.pb.cc:4: src/dco/dco-keyconfig.pb.h:12:2: error: #error This file was generated by a newer version of protoc which is 12 | #error This file was generated by a newer version of protoc which is | ^~~~~ src/dco/dco-keyconfig.pb.h:13:2: error: #error incompatible with your Protocol Buffer headers. Please update 13 | #error incompatible with your Protocol Buffer headers. Please update | ^~~~~ src/dco/dco-keyconfig.pb.h:14:2: error: #error your headers. 14 | #error your headers. | ^~~~~ src/dco/dco-keyconfig.pb.h:36:1: error: 'PROTOBUF_NAMESPACE_OPEN' does not name a type 36 | PROTOBUF_NAMESPACE_OPEN | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ src/dco/dco-keyconfig.pb.h:40:1: error: 'PROTOBUF_NAMESPACE_CLOSE' does not name a type 40 | PROTOBUF_NAMESPACE_CLOSE | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~