From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: M A Young Subject: [patch] xen udev rule interfering with openvpn Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:03:59 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="8323329-435547570-1334603039=:5305" Return-path: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: xen-devel@lists.xen.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --8323329-435547570-1334603039=:5305 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII There is a Fedora bug report https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812421 reporting that openvpn is having problems because of the line SUBSYSTEM=="net", KERNEL=="tap*", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/etc/xen/scripts/vif-setup $env{ACTION} type_if=tap" in /etc/udev/rules.d/xen-backend.rules which is causing the xen script to run when openvpn tries to use a tap device, causing it to fail. I have used the attached patch to solve this problem, by matching the form of the tap device that xen uses more exactly to avoid to openvpn case. A better long-term solution (suggested in one of the comments in the bug) might be to use a more specific name instead of "tap" so we have less chance of interfering with another application. Michael Young --8323329-435547570-1334603039=:5305 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; name=xen-backend.rules.patch Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64 Content-Description: Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=xen-backend.rules.patch VGhlIHVkZXYgdGFwIHhlbiBiYWNrZW5kIHJ1bGUgaW50ZXJmZXJlcyB3aXRo IG9wZW52cG4uIE1ha2UgdGhlIG1hdGNoIGNvbmRpdGlvbiANCm1vcmUgc3Bl Y2lmaWMgdG8geGVuIHNvIGl0IGRvZXNuJ3QgbWF0Y2ggdGhlIG9wZW52cG4g dGFwIGRldmljZS4NCg0KU2lnbmVkLW9mZi1ieTogTWljaGFlbCBZb3VuZyA8 bS5hLnlvdW5nQGR1cmhhbS5hYy51az4NCg0KLS0tIHhlbi00LjEuMi90b29s cy9ob3RwbHVnL0xpbnV4L3hlbi1iYWNrZW5kLnJ1bGVzLm9yaWcJMjAxMS0x MC0yMCAxODowNTo0Mi4wMDAwMDAwMDAgKzAxMDANCisrKyB4ZW4tNC4xLjIv dG9vbHMvaG90cGx1Zy9MaW51eC94ZW4tYmFja2VuZC5ydWxlcwkyMDEyLTA0 LTE1IDE3OjA4OjI0Ljc3NDk1NTkzMiArMDEwMA0KQEAgLTEzLDQgKzEzLDQg QEANCiBLRVJORUw9PSJnbnRkZXYiLCBOQU1FPSJ4ZW4vJWsiLCBNT0RFPSIw NjAwIg0KIEtFUk5FTD09InBjaV9pb211bCIsIE5BTUU9Inhlbi8layIsIE1P REU9IjA2MDAiDQogS0VSTkVMPT0idGFwZGV2W2Etel0qIiwgTkFNRT0ieGVu L2Jsa3RhcC0yL3RhcGRldiVtIiwgTU9ERT0iMDYwMCINCi1TVUJTWVNURU09 PSJuZXQiLCBLRVJORUw9PSJ0YXAqIiwgQUNUSU9OPT0iYWRkIiwgUlVOKz0i L2V0Yy94ZW4vc2NyaXB0cy92aWYtc2V0dXAgJGVudntBQ1RJT059IHR5cGVf aWY9dGFwIg0KK1NVQlNZU1RFTT09Im5ldCIsIEtFUk5FTD09InRhcFswLTld Ki5bMC05XSoiLCBBQ1RJT049PSJhZGQiLCBSVU4rPSIvZXRjL3hlbi9zY3Jp cHRzL3ZpZi1zZXR1cCAkZW52e0FDVElPTn0gdHlwZV9pZj10YXAiDQo= --8323329-435547570-1334603039=:5305 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel --8323329-435547570-1334603039=:5305--