Connection status hangs at "Startup.." and connection will not start about android-openvpn-settings HOT 21 CLOSED

I have this exact problem. settings worked perfectly under TunnelDroid. 
double-checked lsmod and 
modprobe/insmod settings, everything looks good.

OpenVPN-Settings is indeed talking to an interactive shell when launching the 
openvpn
binary. What kind of shell is /system/bin/sh on DroidMod `1.0?

I believe DroidMod 1.0 installs a more feature-filled version of sh to
/system/bin/sh, although I am not sure of exactly what version of sh. it is 
about
1.3MB, much larger then the sh from stock android.

from my phone running DM1.0:

[user@droid] / $ /system/bin/sh --version
GNU bash, version 4.1.0(4)-release (arm-none-linux-gnueabi)

Could you please 'adb  pull /system/bin/sh' from your phone and post it here.

See file.

shouldnt `bash` be backwards compatible with `sh` though?

I switched to Cyanogenmod. once I finally got that working (protip: you need to 
wipe to update from 2.0.1 to 
2.1), OpenVPN Settings worked perfectly.

I cant get the Cyanogen /system/bin/sh to spit any info out about itself 
though. all the - and -- args I try are 
invalid.

I'm also having these issues (if it makes a difference)
It *was* working before, I don't know what changed.
for the record I had things working just fine with openvpn-settings until I 
wiped
droidmod and reinstalled

Hi, just wanted to report that I'm experiencing these same issues. I'm running 
a 
heavily modded Bugless Beast 1.0, but my shell is Bash, compiled through 
Busybox. The 
stock /system/bin/sh is symlinked to /system/xbin/bash. Here's the version 
information:

DROID: / # /system/bin/sh --version
/system/bin/sh --version
GNU bash, version 4.1.0(2)-release (arm-unknown-eabi)

I'm also seeing OpenVPNSettings open interactive shells and stall. 
DROID: / # ps | grep sh
 1669 0         1268 S    /system/bin/sh -
 1702 0         1264 S    /system/bin/sh -s -x -i
 1740 0          668 S    grep sh

Adb logcat dump is attached. Let me know if I can help!

Sorry, forgot to include Busybox version in my post.

DROID: / # busybox
BusyBox v1.15.2 (2010-01-24 18:40:52 UTC) multi-call binary

I'm experiencing the same troubles running OpenVPN-Setting 0.4.4 on my Motorola 
Milestone running Android 2.1-update 1 (SHOLS_U2_02.34.0 / rooted).

How to reproduce it:

1. start OpenVPN Settings
2. press/click on "OpenVPN" (Turn on OpenVPN) 
3. press/click on "client.conf" (Select to turn on OpenVPN tunnel)
   => that's my OpenVPN configuration)
4. the system prompts with "The following application has requested
   Superuser access to the phone: 
   User ID: 10104 de.schaeuffelhut.android.openvpn) 
   Would you like to grant it permission to run privileged commands?".
5. press "Yes" leads to a hanging "OpenVPN Settings hang" with message 
"Startup..."

Work-Around

When I press "client.conf" a 2nd time shortly after 5. , OpenVPN setting 
connects/establishes the tunnel and everything works fine.

Cheers, Peter

I just noticed in the logcat that was posted:
D/OpenVPN-DaemonMonitor[/sdcard/openvpn/TarantellaHome.ovpn]-daemon-stderr( 
1452):
SHELL-PROMPT-READY
D/OpenVPN-DaemonMonitor[/sdcard/openvpn/TarantellaHome.ovpn]-daemon( 1452): exec
/system/bin/su -c 'exec /system/bin/sh-s -x -i'

Shouldn't there be a space between the /system/bin/sh and the -s -x -i? Might 
that
cause the problem?

This issue has started to occur in nightly builds of cyanogenmod 5.0.8 starting 
with 
May 27th.

roger could you please do a adb pull /system/bin/sh with cyanogen

I havs met the same  troubles running OpenVPN-Setting 0.4.4 on my Motorola 
Milestone running Android 2.1

The Openvpn hangs up at "startup ..."

I'm still running Cyanogen 5.0.6.2-Droid but here you go!

I finally could reproduce the issue on my G1 running cm-5.0.8test4.
Please test the attached apk.

I'm updating to Cyanogen 5.0.7.1-Droid and will report back later.

Appears to be working on Cyanogen 5.0.7.1-Droid. huzzah!