[Swan] libreswan version 4.9: ipsec.service: Start operation timed out. Terminating.

Paul Wouters paul at nohats.ca
Tue Nov 8 14:58:03 EET 2022


On Tue, 8 Nov 2022, antonio wrote:

> The issue is with systemd service apparently, I started with init.d/ipsec and is ok.
> 
> The generated package for version 4.9 doesn’t include a unit file. 
> 
> dpkg -c binaries/libreswan_4.9-1_amd64.deb | grep systemd
> drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2022-10-13 01:00 ./lib/systemd/
> drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2022-10-13 01:00 ./lib/systemd/system-preset/
> -rw-r--r-- root/root       145 2022-10-13 01:00 ./lib/systemd/system-preset/90-libreswan.preset

> It was removed in commit: https://github.com/libreswan/libreswan/commit/20fe3adb398eaafb8dc62df06cf32461aaa817d7
> 
> On my server i had copy  ipsec.service into /etc/systemd/system/ipsec.service, and when updated to 4.9 it wasn’t removed. 

It sounds like we might need to add another build dependency for systemd
that is different from dh-systemd ?

Any debian user that knows the answer?

Paul



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