pivpn: cannot install pivpn from script

I had a nicely working pivpn on my raspberry pi 4 server and running open vpn on my phone when I had a cert expired. I tried to create a new client ovpn but this did not generate a new certificate. I read that the best way to get a new cert was to uninstall and re-install pivpn, however, now, regardless of which option I choose (openvpn/wireguard) when running the install script it just stops at “::: Using VPN: WireGuard” (or openvpn) and does nothing else. If I ctr-c out of it then pivpn is not installed. I have manually installed openvpn and wireguard but wasn’t prompted to install them before that. Has anything changed or are there unmentioned dependencies ? what should it be doing after this stage? Thanks for any help getting this working again. Tony

The full install feedback is :

:::
::: sudo will be used for the install.
::: Hostname length OK
::: Verifying free disk space...
:::
::: Package Cache update is needed, running apt-get update -y ...
 done!
:::
::: Checking apt-get for upgraded packages.... done!
:::
::: Your system is up to date! Continuing with PiVPN installation...
:::    Checking for git... already installed!
:::    Checking for tar... already installed!
:::    Checking for curl... already installed!
:::    Checking for grep... already installed!
:::    Checking for dnsutils... already installed!
:::    Checking for grepcidr... already installed!
:::    Checking for whiptail... already installed!
:::    Checking for net-tools... already installed!
:::    Checking for bsdmainutils... already installed!
:::    Checking for bash-completion... already installed!
:::    Checking for dhcpcd5... already installed!
:::    Checking for iptables-persistent... already installed!
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libc-ares2 libmaxminddb0 libqt5multimedia5 libqt5multimedia5-plugins libqt5multimediagsttools5 libqt5multimediaquick5 libqt5multimediawidgets5 libsmi2ldbl libwireshark-data libwireshark11 libwiretap8
  libwscodecs2 libwsutil9 wireshark-common wireshark-qt
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
::: IPv6 test connections to google.com have failed. Disabling IPv6 support. (The curl test failed with code: 6)
grep: /etc/resolv.conf: No such file or directory
::: Static IP already configured.
::: Using User: tony
:::
::: Checking for existing base files...
:::    Checking /usr/local/src/pivpn is a repo... OK!
:::     Updating repo in /usr/local/src/pivpn from https://github.com/pivpn/pivpn.git ... done!
::: Using VPN: WireGuard

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 2 years ago
Reactions: 3
Comments: 15 (5 by maintainers)

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I experienced the same issue and when it hung i did a Ctrl+\ and the script continued. I did not modify the install scipt at all.

heybrodes on Nov 30, 2022

This is a “me too” post, but also with some additional data points:

Like some others, I had pivpn working on a prior install, but reinstalled.
I tried both the main and test branches.
I do not get the /etc/resolv.conf error (see below).
The script fails for both wireguard and OpenVpn.
Like 1518, my IP range is in 10.0.0.x.
HOWEVER, prior iterations of the script worked with this range – as I have been on 10.0.0.x since before the script (or RPi) existed.

Here is the tail of the script where it fails:

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
::: IPv6 test connections to google.com have failed. Disabling IPv6 support. (The curl test failed with code: 7)
::: Using User: hxr
:::
::: Checking for existing base files...
:::    Checking /usr/local/src/pivpn is a repo... OK!
:::     Updating repo in /usr/local/src/pivpn from https://github.com/pivpn/pivpn.git ... [/]  done!
:::     Checkout branch 'test' from https://github.com/pivpn/pivpn.git in /usr/local/src/pivpn...
:::     'test' branch checkout done!
::: Using VPN: OpenVPN

I will try the workaround and report back.

TheRoarkster on Nov 6, 2022

I had word for word the exact same issue as OP. The workaround mentioned in issue #1518 did the trick

pinesol93 on Sep 17, 2022