Control: found -1 2.4.0-6 Control: fixed -1 2.4.3-4 On 09.10.2017 20:50, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
Hi, >> Package: openvpn >> Version: 2.4.0-6+deb9u1 >> Severity: normal >> >> Dear Maintainer, >> >> the provided openvpn@.service script is missing 2 lines: >> After=syslog.target network-online.target >> Wants=network-online.target >> >> Without these lines the openvpn starts too early and doesn't find >> available network devices it could bind to. > > Do you bind your OpenVPN instance to a specific IP address (i.e. by > using the "local" configuration option)? > > Otherwise OpenVPN should start just fine even when only "lo" is > configured at this point. > > I'm not sure we want to fix this globally. As far as I understood > depending on "network-online.target" should be avoided if possible, > since the point of "external connectivity is available" is not easily > determined. > > You can add this locally by executing > > $ sudo systemctl add-wants openvpn@.service network-online.target I fear I have to change my answer a bit. 1.) The requested change has already been done in Buster, in 2.4.3-4 2.) add-wants does not help a lot here, since we don't only need a "Wants" but also an "After" relationship to order it. Can you please try to add a file /etc/systemd/system/openvpn@.service.d/after-network-online.conf with the following content? === [Unit] After=network-online.target Wants=network-online.target === Bernhard
