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  • J
    jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
    last edited by jimp Nov 9, 2018, 4:48 PM Nov 9, 2018, 4:48 PM

    To anyone that can still reproduce this:

    • Go to VPN > IPsec, Advanced tab.
    • Under IPsec Logging Controls set strongSwan Lib to Highest, then Save
    • Try to restart IPsec
    • look in Status > System Logs, IPsec tab for a message about why it failed. Alternately, check clog /var/log/ipsec.log from the shell.

    The strongSwan source seems to imply that it could be a file/filesystem issue. The checksum is missing, the file size is wrong, or the checksum doesn't match. It could also be that somehow it can't find the library (Maybe run ldconfig in the shell and then try starting it again).

    The debug logs will hopefully tell us more.

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      nledoux
      last edited by Nov 9, 2018, 4:58 PM

      Here is the strongswan.conf (0_1541782634617_strongswan.conf.txt) from our running 2.4.3 that fails after upgrade.
      I cannot reproduce now but will try the above of hours if nobody was able to provide before.

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        dtrandov
        last edited by Nov 9, 2018, 5:34 PM

        One thing I did when upgrading was to refresh dashboard, because i thought that upgrade process freeze. Probably related with issue.

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          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate @dtrandov
          last edited by Nov 9, 2018, 5:42 PM

          @dtrandov said in IPSEC failed to run after 2.4.4 upgrade:

          One thing I did when upgrading was to refresh dashboard, because i thought that upgrade process freeze. Probably related with issue.

          Probably not if the same thing happened after updating to 2.4.5.

          Can you try the log changes I posted about a few replies up?

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            dtrandov
            last edited by Nov 9, 2018, 5:46 PM

            Sure, but I can do it Monday and get back with result.

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              jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
              last edited by Nov 9, 2018, 6:51 PM

              I have opened https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/9106 to track this, but we can't do anything until we can either reproduce it locally, or get the debug log messages stating exactly what part of the test failed.

              After gathering the above info, I do have a hunch as it what might help. Install the system patches package and then try the following patch:

              diff --git a/src/etc/inc/vpn.inc b/src/etc/inc/vpn.inc
              index d12eb986c2..c055a04d66 100644
              --- a/src/etc/inc/vpn.inc
              +++ b/src/etc/inc/vpn.inc
              @@ -1556,6 +1556,7 @@ EOD;
               	}
               
               	/* manage process */
              +	mwexec("/etc/rc.d/ldconfig start", false);
               	if ($restart === true) {
               		mwexec("/usr/local/sbin/ipsec restart", false);
               	} else {
              

              If that doesn't help, revert the patch.

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                nledoux
                last edited by Nov 12, 2018, 5:20 AM

                Thanks for opening the issue for tracking.
                Retried the update with the same problem. I changed the log level to highest as requested and started IPsec but it unfortunately did not report more information:

                Nov 11 23:56:33 	ipsec_starter 	19939 	ipsec starter stopped
                Nov 11 23:56:33 	ipsec_starter 	19939 	charon refused to be started
                Nov 11 23:56:33 	ipsec_starter 	19939 	charon has quit: integrity test of libstrongswan failed
                Nov 11 23:56:33 	ipsec_starter 	19637 	no known IPsec stack detected, ignoring!
                Nov 11 23:56:33 	ipsec_starter 	19637 	no KLIPS IPsec stack detected
                Nov 11 23:56:33 	ipsec_starter 	19637 	no netkey IPsec stack detected
                Nov 11 23:56:33 	ipsec_starter 	19637 	Starting strongSwan 5.7.1 IPsec [starter]...
                

                I also tried the patch but it did not change anything.
                Reverted back to 2.4.3 for now.
                Let's see if dtrandov as better results.

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                  dtrandov
                  last edited by dtrandov Nov 12, 2018, 11:33 AM Nov 12, 2018, 6:57 AM

                  Did required changes, but no additional info in log files and IPsec refused to start.
                  Just for test i ran again pkg check -s strongswan, and some files are missing:
                  pkg check -s strongswan

                  Checking strongswan:   0%
                  strongswan-5.7.1: missing file /usr/local/man/man1/pki---acert.1.gz
                  strongswan-5.7.1: missing file /usr/local/man/man1/pki---dn.1.gz
                  strongswan-5.7.1: missing file /usr/local/man/man1/pki---gen.1.gz
                  strongswan-5.7.1: missing file /usr/local/man/man1/pki---issue.1.gz
                  strongswan-5.7.1: missing file /usr/local/man/man1/pki---keyid.1.gz
                  strongswan-5.7.1: missing file /usr/local/man/man1/pki---pkcs7.1.gz
                  strongswan-5.7.1: missing file /usr/local/man/man1/pki---print.1.gz
                  strongswan-5.7.1: missing file /usr/local/man/man1/pki---pub.1.gz
                  strongswan-5.7.1: missing file /usr/local/man/man1/pki---req.1.gz
                  strongswan-5.7.1: missing file /usr/local/man/man1/pki---self.1.gz
                  strongswan-5.7.1: missing file /usr/local/man/man1/pki---signcrl.1.gz
                  strongswan-5.7.1: missing file /usr/local/man/man1/pki---verify.1.gz
                  strongswan-5.7.1: missing file /usr/local/man/man1/pki.1.gz
                  strongswan-5.7.1: missing file /usr/local/man/man5/ipsec.conf.5.gz
                  strongswan-5.7.1: missing file /usr/local/man/man5/ipsec.secrets.5.gz
                  strongswan-5.7.1: missing file /usr/local/man/man5/strongswan.conf.5.gz
                  strongswan-5.7.1: missing file /usr/local/man/man5/swanctl.conf.5.gz
                  strongswan-5.7.1: missing file /usr/local/man/man8/charon-cmd.8.gz
                  strongswan-5.7.1: missing file /usr/local/man/man8/ipsec.8.gz
                  strongswan-5.7.1: missing file /usr/local/man/man8/swanctl.8.gz
                  

                  I'm sure when issue arise, I did reinstall strongswan and no errors appears.

                  Also:

                  cat /var/etc/ipsec/strongswan.conf
                  
                  # Automatically generated config file - DO NOT MODIFY. Changes will be overwritten.
                  starter {
                         load_warning = no
                         config_file = /var/etc/ipsec/ipsec.conf
                  }
                  
                  charon {
                  # number of worker threads in charon
                         threads = 16
                         ikesa_table_size = 32
                         ikesa_table_segments = 4
                         init_limit_half_open = 1000
                         install_routes = no
                         load_modular = yes
                         ignore_acquire_ts = yes
                  
                  
                         cisco_unity = no
                  
                  
                  
                         syslog {
                                 identifier = charon
                                 # log everything under daemon since it ends up in the same place regardless with our syslog.conf
                                 daemon {
                                         ike_name = yes
                                         dmn = 1
                                         mgr = 1
                                         ike = 1
                                         chd = 1
                                         job = 1
                                         cfg = 1
                                         knl = 1
                                         net = 1
                                         asn = 1
                                         enc = 1
                                         imc = 1
                                         imv = 1
                                         pts = 1
                                         tls = 1
                                         esp = 1
                                         lib = 4
                  
                                 }
                                 # disable logging under auth so logs aren't duplicated
                                 auth {
                                         default = -1
                                 }
                         }
                  
                         plugins {
                                 # Load defaults
                                 include /var/etc/ipsec/strongswan.d/charon/*.conf
                  
                                 stroke {
                                         secrets_file = /var/etc/ipsec/ipsec.secrets
                                 }
                  
                                 unity {
                                         load = no
                                 }
                                 eap-radius {
                                         class_group = yes
                                         eap_start = no
                                         accounting = yes
                                         servers {
                                                 dc1.mydomain.com-radius {
                                                         address = 192.168.111.101
                                                         secret = "asdasd"
                                                         auth_port = 1812
                                                         acct_port = 1813
                                                 }
                  
                                         }
                                 }
                                 attr {
                                         subnet = 172.16.15.0/24,192.168.111.0/24
                                         split-include = 172.16.15.0/24,192.168.111.0/24
                                 }
                                 xauth-generic {
                                         script = /etc/inc/ipsec.auth-user.php
                                         authcfg = dc1.mydomain.com-radius
                                 }
                  
                         }
                  }
                  
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                    jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                    last edited by Nov 12, 2018, 3:40 PM

                    The man pages being missing is expected, as we normally will strip out the man pages and other docs from the host itself to save space.

                    I was hoping that little patch would help, but at least we know it isn't the library path.

                    If you can get a host back into the failed state, try going to an ssh or console shell prompt and then run this command:

                    ipsec stop
                    ipsec start --debug-all
                    

                    And then check the console output and IPsec log

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                      dtrandov
                      last edited by Nov 12, 2018, 4:08 PM

                      Console output:

                      ipsec stop:

                      Stopping strongSwan IPsec failed: starter is not running
                      

                      ipsec start --debug-all:

                      /usr/local/etc/strongswan.conf:68: syntax error, unexpected ., expecting : or '{' or '=' [.]
                      invalid config file '/usr/local/etc/strongswan.conf'
                      abort initialization due to invalid configuration
                      Starting strongSwan 5.7.1 IPsec [starter]...
                      Loading config setup
                        uniqueids=yes
                      Loading conn 'bypasslan'
                        authby=never
                        auto=route
                        leftsubnet=192.168.111.0/24
                        rightsubnet=192.168.111.0/24
                        type=passthrough
                      Loading conn 'con-mobile'
                        auto=add
                        dpdaction=clear
                        dpddelay=10s
                        dpdtimeout=60s
                        eap_identity=%identity
                        esp=aes256-sha256,aes192-sha256,aes128-sha256,aes256-sha256,aes192-sha256,aes128-sha256!
                        forceencaps=no
                        fragmentation=yes
                        ike=aes256-sha256-modp1024!
                        ikelifetime=28800s
                        installpolicy=yes
                        keyexchange=ikev2
                        left=172.16.15.160
                        leftauth=pubkey
                        leftcert=/var/etc/ipsec/ipsec.d/certs/cert.crt
                        leftid=fqdn:vpn2.mydomain.com
                        leftsendcert=always
                        leftsubnet=172.16.15.0/24,192.168.111.0/24
                        lifetime=3600s
                        mobike=yes
                        reauth=yes
                        rekey=yes
                        right=%any
                        rightauth=eap-radius
                        rightsourceip=192.168.89.0/24
                        type=tunnel
                      kernel appears to lack the native netkey IPsec stack
                      no netkey IPsec stack detected
                      kernel appears to lack the KLIPS IPsec stack
                      no KLIPS IPsec stack detected
                      no known IPsec stack detected, ignoring!
                      

                      line 68 is where is dc1.mydomain.com-radius:

                      dc1.mydomain.com-radius {
                                                             address = 192.168.111.101
                                                             secret = "masked"
                                                             auth_port = 1812
                                                             acct_port = 1813
                                                     }
                      
                      
                      
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                        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                        last edited by Nov 12, 2018, 4:21 PM

                        OK, that is a different condition. It doesn't like a . in the RADIUS server name. I didn't have any set that way, but now that I set one up I see the same error. Curious that the error is shown on the console but not in the logs. But now I do see the same integrity test error!

                        So we're getting closer! Let me find a fix for this, most likely it will involve removing the dots or swapping them for some other character.

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                          dtrandov
                          last edited by dtrandov Nov 12, 2018, 4:52 PM Nov 12, 2018, 4:35 PM

                          Great.

                          well, I've just defined new radius server entry (without dots in name) in System/User Manager/Authentication Servers and IPSec is up now..... definitely dots in name are problematic.

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                            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                            last edited by Nov 12, 2018, 5:08 PM

                            Thankfully that is a very simple fix (assuming you don't fudge the regex like I did on my first commit), so if you want to keep a RADIUS server entry with . in the name, you can if you apply the following patch:

                            diff --git a/src/etc/inc/vpn.inc b/src/etc/inc/vpn.inc
                            index 2458a224f5..e3ccb4f3c4 100644
                            --- a/src/etc/inc/vpn.inc
                            +++ b/src/etc/inc/vpn.inc
                            @@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ EOD;
                             	$user_sources = explode(',', $config['ipsec']['client']['user_source']);
                             	foreach ($user_sources as $user_source) {
                             		$auth_server = auth_get_authserver($user_source);
                            -		$nice_user_source = strtolower(preg_replace('/\s+/', '_', $user_source));
                            +		$nice_user_source = strtolower(preg_replace('/[\s\.]+/', '_', $user_source));
                             		if ($auth_server && $auth_server['type'] === 'radius') {
                             			$radius_server_txt .= <<<EOD
                             				{$nice_user_source} {
                            

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                              dtrandov
                              last edited by Nov 12, 2018, 5:12 PM

                              Thanks a lot. Really appreciate you assistance :)

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                                nledoux
                                last edited by Nov 12, 2018, 9:06 PM

                                Thanks jimp!
                                I'll try this also tonight and post results.
                                Quick question: (I'm no expert with diff.) Shouldn't the path in the above patches be /etc/inc/vpn.inc? There is no /src folder on our system.
                                Also, will this be corrected is a future release or will we need to keep the patch as long as we have names with dot?

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                                  jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                  last edited by Nov 12, 2018, 9:08 PM

                                  It will be corrected in 2.4.4-p1 and 2.4.5.

                                  As for the path, the system patches package defaults to a path strip level of 2, so it will do the right thing here.

                                  The source in github has a src/ directory prefix, which is why it shows in patches made from git commits like the above.

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                                    nledoux
                                    last edited by Nov 13, 2018, 5:28 PM

                                    Understood for the default strip level of the system patches package.
                                    This worked also for us and we now have a working 2.4.4 system.
                                    Thanks jimp!

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