[strongSwan] charon too long to start...

[Andreas Steffen]

Probably XFRM is not enabled in the kernel. Have look at the list
of kernel modules which have to be activated:

http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/KernelModules

Regards

Andreas

On 11/17/2010 08:51 PM, Zorgh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I got error "charon too long to start... - kill kill". Can somebody help
> me to fix it ?
>
> I'm using Debian Lenny and StrongSwan 4.2.4.
>
> Thanks so much.
>
> _The log information_:
>
> /# ipsec start --nofork
> Starting strongSwan 4.2.4 IPsec [starter]...
> 01[DMN] starting charon (strongSwan Version 4.2.4)
> 01[DMN] killing daemon: unable to bind XFRM event socket
> charon has died -- restart scheduled (5sec)
> charon refused to be started/

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