Hi,, Ive just installed openvpn on a debian server. When i /etc/ini.d/openvpn start......It gives me the following error:

Starting virtual private network daemon: server(FAILED)

These are the logs "/var/log/openvpn.log" :

Thu Oct 16 11:10:23 2008[/B] OpenVPN 2.0.9 i486-pc-linux-gnu [SSL] [LZO] [EPOLL] built on Sep 20 2007
Thu Oct 16 11:10:23 2008 Diffie-Hellman initialized with 1024 bit key
Thu Oct 16 11:10:23 2008 TLS-Auth MTU parms [ L:1544 D:140 EF:40 EB:0 ET:0 EL:0 ]
Thu Oct 16 11:10:23 2008 TCP/UDP: Socket bind failed on local address 192.168.5.220:1194: Cannot assign requested address
Thu Oct 16 11:10:23 2008 Exiting

your errror message : cannot assign requested address
make sure your lan-ip must be in diff. subnet on your openvpn-client.ip
and, port 1194 must be opened.

Are you sure it isn't already running? Check

netstat -nalp | grep :1194

Also, show us your config using

sed '/^[\#,\;]/d' server.conf

And tell u what NICs you have, IPs, etc.

this is the config.
port 1194
proto udp
dev tun
duplicate-cn
ca ca.crt
cert server.crt
key server.key # This file should be kept secret
dh dh1024.pem
server 10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0
ifconfig-pool-persist ipp.txt
client-config-dir ccd
push "dhcp-option WINS 10.8.0.1"
client-to-client
keepalive 10 120
comp-lzo
user nobody
group nobody
persist-key
persist-tun
status openvpn-status.log
verb 3

I have normal 32-bit 10/100 NIC and IP's are 192.168.5.0/200

And the netstat output?

I had the same problem and could solve it by removing the line "local xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx." out of the server.conf.

See also:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...pn/+bug/516016