[Mageia-dev] systemd and openvpn

Fri Oct 26 23:40:47 CEST 2012

Le 26/10/2012 23:36, Richard Couture a écrit :
+> More fun with systemd
+>
+> When I try to start my openvpn client with
+> systemctl restart openvpn.service
+>
+> I get
+>
+> [root at AbelLap system]# systemctl restart openvpn.service
+> Failed to issue method call: Unit openvpn.service failed to load: 
+> Invalid argument. See system logs and 'systemctl status 
+> openvpn.service' for details.
+>
+> systemctl status openvpn.service
+>
+> gives me
+>
+> [root at AbelLap system]# systemctl status openvpn.service
+> openvpn.service
+>       Loaded: error (Reason: Invalid argument)
+>       Active: inactive (dead)
+>
+>
+> HOWEVER when I go to /etc/init.d and issue the command
+> [root at AbelLap system]# cd /etc/init.d
+> [root at AbelLap init.d]# ./openvpn restart
+> Shutting down openvpn:                                          [  OK  ]
+> Starting openvpn:                                               [  OK  ]
+>
+> everything works fine
+> Am I being super twit or something?
+>
+> I am writing a tutorial on openVPN to present to the international 
+> Festival of Free Software in Puerto Vallarta 
+> http://www.fslvallarta.org  next week and thought to use MGA to 
+> indirectly promote it's use.
+>
+> Thanks
+>
+>
+>
+>
+> Richard
+
+Hello, I think you can found some help in the related bugs:
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6291
+