Bug 148950

Summary:	racoon unable to start with stale socket /tmp/.racoon
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Milan Kerslager <milan.kerslager>
Component:	ipsec-tools	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	3.0	CC:	rvokal, ubeck
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2005-03-23 10:10:30 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Milan Kerslager 2005-02-17 07:26:54 UTC

When restarting IPsec connection racoon give up if stale socket file
/tmp/.racoon exists. This prevent IPsec to work after unexpected racoon die
(racoon crash, server crash, sigkill when machine went down and racoon did not
exit via sigterm etc).

The ifup-ipsec script should check for stale socket and remove it if no racoon
copy is running or racoon should handle this issue by itself.

This arised after http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2004-513.html (bug #129611)

Comment 1 Uwe Beck 2005-03-12 23:35:29 UTC

This is a problem in ipsec-tools-0.2.5-0.6 (RHEL3) and also in
ipsec-tools-0.3.3-5.6 (RHEL4) which use the /tmp/.racoon socket file
(I test for socket and remove it before racoon starts). The better way
should be that racoon handle it by itself.

The ipsec-tools-0.5-1.RHEL4 do not have this problem, but use now the
/var/racoon/racoon.sock socket file. I see it during test of
ipsec-tools-0.5-1.RHEL4 in #145424.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2005-03-14 17:22:59 UTC

It *should* be fixed in 0.3.3-5.6.

Comment 3 Mark J. Cox 2005-03-23 10:10:30 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-232.html