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Mac OS 11.6 update and then "The OpenVPN subsystem could not be started."

Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2022 1:49 am
by mlittle2022
Apologies in advance if this has been answered before (I did try to search). I recently upgraded my Mac to 11.6 and now Viscosity (1.10.1) has stopped working. The same configuration files work fine on another laptop running 11.2 so I'm fairly confident there's nothing wrong there. When I try to connect to anything through Viscosity I get the following in the logs:

2022-01-19 14:34:26: Viscosity Mac 1.10.1 (1586)
2022-01-19 14:34:26: Viscosity OpenVPN Engine Started
2022-01-19 14:34:26: Running on macOS 11.6.0
2022-01-19 14:34:26: ---------
2022-01-19 14:34:26: State changed to Connecting
2022-01-19 14:34:26: Checking reachability status of connection...
2022-01-19 14:34:26: Connection is reachable. Starting connection attempt.
2022-01-19 14:34:26: Options error: The command "tls-remote" or one of its parameters is invalid for this version of OpenVPN (2.4.11). Please edit the connection, make sure the command is valid, and try again.
2022-01-19 14:34:26: Full command: tls-remote ovpn.redhat.com
2022-01-19 14:34:26: The OpenVPN subsystem could not be started.
2022-01-19 14:34:26: State changed to Disconnected (OpenVPN System Failure)

I've got OpenVPN installed (OpenVPN 2.5.5 x86_64-apple-darwin20.6.0 [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [LZ4] [PKCS11] [MH/RECVDA] [AEAD] built on Dec 15 2021).

Hopefully someone can suggest some next steps I can take to try to get to the root cause.

Thanks in advance!

Re: Mac OS 11.6 update and then "The OpenVPN subsystem could not be started."

Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2022 2:03 am
by mlittle2022
Ignore. I missed the error message in my own posting from the log. Changed the tis-remote option as per another thread I found here! Everything works now.