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OpenVPN does not start with the error Already running (PID file exists)

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http://askubuntu.com – If I try to start OpenVPN, I get this error: /etc/init.d/openvpn start * Starting virtual private network daemon(s)... * Autostarting VPN 'server' * Already running (PID file exists) But OpenVPN is not running, what should I do? (HowTos)

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Submitted by Songlist on 12/14/2012

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I'm trying to set up an OpenVPN server on my VPS for myself when I'm in public places, using this tutorial, http://tipupdate.com/how-to-install-openvpn-on-ubuntu-vps/

However whenever I try to start the server, it gives me this,

root@vps:~# /etc/init.d/openvpn start * Starting virtual private network daemon(s)...

I'm running openvpn (client) on a home ubuntu server.

I currently create the connection with the command:

sudo openvpn /path/to/config/file

If I don't run it as root, I get an error that the TUN interface can't be created.

I found an old thread on the topic where someone suggested adding your user to netdev, but after doing that I still get the same error.

How urgent is it to solve this prob

I have an *.ovpn file that works if I type in

sudo openvpn client.ovpn

Now I would like to start up openvpn when I boot the computer. It's a headless version of ubuntu if that matters. 12.04 64bit.

I copied filename.ovpn to /etc/openvpn but it's not starting, even if I run

service openvpn start

How can I do this?

Thanks

Hi all,

Just wanted to post about a problem I found and resolved after upgrading from Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS to 12.04.1 LTS.

After upgrading I had problems with getting OpenVpn Server running. It had been working for several years previously. I run a bridged connection that allows OpenVpn to assign IP's on my primary LAN.

[ubuntu] OpenVPN 2 years 28 weeks ago

Hi everyone.

I'm running an up to date 10.04 so not expecting things to work, just wondering if this could be a bug.

Trying to setup an Open VPN connection in Network Manager using Password with Certificates (TLS) option. Now my private key does not have a password however when I look in syslog to see why the connection fails I see the following.

I have an OpenVPN server and I can connect to it just fine but I can not communicate with any other hosts on the network including the server. I can't ping from the server to an OpenVPN client, I can't ping from an OpenVPN client to the OpenVPN server, I can't ping from OpenVPN client to OpenVPN client or from OpenVPN client to normal LAN host and vise-versa.

I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 on a OpenVZ VPS with TUN/TAP enabled. Months ago I succesfully configured a openvpn server on my VPS. Two days ago there was a power outage on my host's data center which resulted in downtime.

OpenVPN refuses to start up and exists with this error ever since i upgraded Ubuntu from 1.04 to 11.10

Dec 14 19:12:38 oogle ovpn-server[32150]: OpenVPN 2.2.0 i686-linux-gnu [SSL] [LZO2] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] [eurephia] [MH] [PF_INET6] [IPv6 payload 20110424-2 (2.2RC2)] built on Jul 4 2011 Dec 14 19:12:38 oogle ovpn-server[32150]: NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configurat