🐛 [Transmission Openvpn] FATAL: Ovpn file not found at location provided

[almico]

Description

Starting the addon, it stops with the following error:

Updating variables
Using PUID 1000 and PGID 1000
[09:02:09] INFO: Custom openvpn provider selected
[09:02:09] FATAL: Ovpn file not found at location provided : /config/openvpn/de123.ovpn
/etc/cont-init.d/99-run.sh: exiting 1

Reproduction steps

Start the addon.

Addon Logs

Starting...
/etc/cont-init.d/00-banner.sh: executing
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 Add-on: Transmission Openvpn
 Docker container running Transmission torrent client with WebUI over an OpenVPN tunnel
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 Add-on version: v5.1.0
 You are running the latest version of this add-on.
 System: Home Assistant OS 10.5  (amd64 / qemux86-64)
 Home Assistant Core: 2023.8.4
 Home Assistant Supervisor: 2023.08.1
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 Please, share the above information when looking for help
 or support in, e.g., GitHub, forums
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 Provided by: https://github.com/alexbelgium/hassio-addons 
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 Defining permissions for main user : 
User UID: 1000
User GID : 1000
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/etc/cont-init.d/00-local_mounts.sh: executing
/etc/cont-init.d/00-smb_mounts.sh: executing
Mounting smb share(s)...
Using PUID 1000 and PGID 1000
[09:01:57] INFO: ... //192.168.1.1/shared successfully mounted to /mnt/shared with options ,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8
/etc/cont-init.d/01-custom_script.sh: executing
[09:01:57] INFO: Execute /config/addons_autoscripts/transmission-openvpn.sh if existing
[09:01:57] INFO: ... no script found
/etc/cont-init.d/32-nginx_ingress.sh: executing
/etc/cont-init.d/90-dns_set.sh: executing
[09:01:58] INFO: DNS SERVERS set to 1.1.1.1 8.8.8.8 
/etc/cont-init.d/99-run.sh: executing
[09:01:58] INFO: Updating transmission to v3
[09:01:58] WARNING: If your previous version was v2, remove and add torrents again
--2023-09-04 09:01:58--  https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xa37da909ae70535824d82620976b5901365c5ca1
Resolving keyserver.ubuntu.com (keyserver.ubuntu.com)... 185.125.188.26, 185.125.188.27, 2620:2d:4000:1007::d43, ...
Connecting to keyserver.ubuntu.com (keyserver.ubuntu.com)|185.125.188.26|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1804 (1.8K) [text/plain]
Saving to: '976b5901365c5ca1.key'
     0K .                                                     100%  836M=0s
2023-09-04 09:01:58 (836 MB/s) - '976b5901365c5ca1.key' saved [1804/1804]
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
[09:02:05] INFO: Exporting variables
DEBUG=false
DNS_server=8.8.8.8,1.1.1.1
LOCAL_NETWORK=192.168.0.0/16
OPENVPN_CUSTOM_PROVIDER=true
OPENVPN_CUSTOM_PROVIDER_OVPN_LOCATION=/config/openvpn/de123.ovpn
OPENVPN_PASSWORD=xxx
OPENVPN_USERNAME=yyy
PGID=1000
PUID=1000
TRANSMISSION_DOWNLOAD_DIR=/mnt/shared/transmission/downloads
TRANSMISSION_HOME=/config/addons_config/transmission
TRANSMISSION_INCOMPLETE_DIR=/mnt/shared/transmission/incomplete
TRANSMISSION_V3_UPDATE=true
TRANSMISSION_WATCH_DIR=/mnt/shared/transmission/watch_dir
TRANSMISSION_WEB_UI=transmission-web-control
auto_restart=true
cifspassword=xxx
cifsusername=yyy
networkdisks=//192.168.1.1/shared
Updating variables
Using PUID 1000 and PGID 1000
[09:02:09] INFO: Custom openvpn provider selected
[09:02:09] FATAL: Ovpn file not found at location provided : /config/openvpn/de123.ovpn
/etc/cont-init.d/99-run.sh: exiting 1

Architecture

amd64

OS

HAos

[Rbillon59]

Hello, facing the same issue since updating to v5.1.0 (was working properly on v5.0.2)

Seems to come from this commit / line

Using Shell, if [ ! -f "$OVPNLOCATION" ] try to check the existence of a file.

To check for a directory, you need to use if [ ! -d "$OVPNLOCATION" ]

[alexbelgium]

Thanks! Nice spotting I'll check a bit later when I have time

[alexbelgium]

Should be good!

[Rbillon59]

Should be good!

Hi, impossible to install on my side

[alexbelgium]

Thanks, relaunched

[Rbillon59]

So actually, the fix worked and did not fail as before.

I don't know if it was related to my configuration (which worked before). But

my personal config was named user.ovpn and stored in like /config/ovpn/user.ovpn and I set the OPENVPN_CUSTOM_PROVIDER_OVPN_LOCATION to exactly that.

I had an error saying

ERROR: Could not find any configs for provider USER in downloaded configs

The workaround found after examining a bit what the docker image does was to create a folder named user (the name of the ovpn file without the extention) in /config/addons_config/transmission_openvpn/vpn-configs-contrib/openvpn/ and put my user.ovpn file there

So at the end, the full path was /config/addons_config/transmission_openvpn/vpn-configs-contrib/openvpn/user/user.ovpn

[alexbelgium]

Happy it worked for you but it seems the code isn't very robust... One day I'll have to work on improving that

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[almico]

Doesn't work for me:

Starting container with revision: 48299204d160d2d699ce6dd5ccdfcba0ecf13c83
TRANSMISSION_HOME is currently set to: /config/addons_config/transmission_openvpn/transmission-home
Using OpenVPN provider: DK263.NORDVPN.COM.UDP
Running with VPN_CONFIG_SOURCE auto
No bundled config script found for DK263.NORDVPN.COM.UDP. Defaulting to external config
Will get configs from https://github.com/haugene/vpn-configs-contrib.git
Cloning https://github.com/haugene/vpn-configs-contrib.git into /config/addons_config/transmission_openvpn/vpn-configs-contrib
Cloning into '/config/addons_config/transmission_openvpn/vpn-configs-contrib'...
ERROR: Could not find any configs for provider DK263.NORDVPN.COM.UDP in downloaded configs

[Rbillon59]

@almico I faced the same issue, you can follow my workaround, I believe it will work for you as well

[almico]

Thank you, @Rbillon59, it worked.
It's ugly, but it works.
I hope it will not require me to do the same after some addon restart.

[Rbillon59]

Thank you, @Rbillon59, it worked.
It's ugly, but it works.
I hope it will not require me to do the same after some addon restart.

No, it's data mounted from the host to the container, they will persist

[almico]

I think the containing directory is retrieved from github. If it's updated, it might be completely overwritten, depending on the settings, I think.
We'll see 😄

[alexbelgium]

Hi, from version "v5.3.1-6", the custom vpn configuration changes. The way it works is by mapping the /config/addons_config/transmission/openvpn folder to the /etc/openvpn/custom, as per normal way of working for the Haugene's transmission openvpn github. No more strange workarounds as before.

Here is how to make it work :
BREAKING CHANGE FOR CUSTOM VPN : if you are using a custom VPN provider, you must remove OPENVPN_CUSTOM_PROVIDER from your addon option and instead set OPENVPN_PROVIDER to "custom", then reference your ovpn file in your "OPENVPN_CONFIG". For example, if AIRVPN has provided to you an *.ovpn filed named AIRVPN.ovpn, you need to install an addon such as Filebrowser, go in the /config/addons_config/transmission/openvpn folder and put the AIRVPN.ovpn here. Then, in the addon option you need to write "AIRVPN" in the "OPENVPN_CONFIG" option