Connection Established but stuck in "Connecting" State

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guidomi

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Post by guidomi » Fri Sep 09, 2016 8:26 pm
Hi

I have installed Viscosity in a Windows 10 environment without error and imported my connections. However, for all my connections, when I try to login the connection got successfully (and I'm able to join the servers in my vpn) but the connection status keep the "connecting" state. But the worst is when I try to disconnect from the VPN: it switch from "connecting" state to "disconnecting" and keep this state forever making me unable to join again the same VPN (until I kill viscosity and start it again).

Could you help me to solve it? below the connection log (some data are anonymized).

Connecting log:
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set 09 11:56:05: State changed to Creating...
set 09 11:56:12: State changed to Disconnected
set 09 11:56:24: State changed to Disconnected
set 09 11:57:03: State changed to Connecting
set 09 11:57:03: Viscosity Windows 1.6.5 (1455)
set 09 11:57:03: Running on Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise
set 09 11:57:03: Bringing up interface...
set 09 11:57:03: Checking reachability status of connection...
set 09 11:57:12: Connection is reachable. Starting connection attempt.
set 09 11:57:12: OpenVPN 2.3.11 Windows-MSVC [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [PKCS11] [IPv6] built on May 11 2016
set 09 11:57:12: library versions: OpenSSL 1.0.2h  3 May 2016, LZO 2.09
set 09 11:57:28: Control Channel Authentication: using 'C:\mypath\ta.key' as a OpenVPN static key file
set 09 11:57:28: Attempting to establish TCP connection with [AF_INET]<my-vpn-ip>:<my-vpn-port> [nonblock]
set 09 11:57:29: TCP connection established with [AF_INET]<my-vpn-ip>:<my-vpn-port>
set 09 11:57:29: TCPv4_CLIENT link local: [undef]
set 09 11:57:29: TCPv4_CLIENT link remote: [AF_INET]<my-vpn-ip>:<my-vpn-port>
set 09 11:57:29: WARNING: this configuration may cache passwords in memory -- use the auth-nocache option to prevent this
set 09 11:57:31: [OpenVPN Server] Peer Connection Initiated with [AF_INET]<my-vpn-ip>:<my-vpn-port>
set 09 11:57:33: Unrecognized option or missing parameter(s) in [PUSH-OPTIONS]:23: block-ipv6 (2.3.11)
set 09 11:57:33: do_ifconfig, tt->ipv6=0, tt->did_ifconfig_ipv6_setup=0
set 09 11:57:33: open_tun, tt->ipv6=0
set 09 11:57:33: TAP-WIN32 device [ACP LE VPN 1] opened: \\.\Global\{11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111}.tap
set 09 11:57:33: Set TAP-Windows TUN subnet mode network/local/netmask = <network_ip>/<local_ip>/<netmask_mask> [SUCCEEDED]
set 09 11:57:33: Notified TAP-Windows driver to set a DHCP IP/netmask of <local_ip>/<netmask_mask>.0 on interface {11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111} [DHCP-serv: <DHCP-server-ip>, lease-time: 31536000]
set 09 11:57:33: Successful ARP Flush on interface [29] {11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111}
set 09 11:57:42: Initialization Sequence Completed
disconnecting log:
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set 09 12:25:51: State changed to Disconnecting

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Post by Eric » Mon Sep 12, 2016 11:40 am
Hi guidomi,

Could you please post a copy of your configuration as exported from Viscosity. You may wish to email this to us instead as this forum is public.

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Post by guidomi » Mon Sep 12, 2016 10:52 pm
Hi Eric,

I think/hope you need only the config.conf file and not the certifiacate/key files. Below you will find it (anonymized of course)
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#-- Config Auto Generated By Viscosity --#

#viscosity name MY VPN
#viscosity dns automatic
#viscosity usepeerdns true
#viscosity manageadapter true
#viscosity startonopen false
remote my.vpn.address.com 443 tcp-client
pull
tls-client
nobind
dev tun
ns-cert-type server
auth-user-pass
comp-lzo no
ca ca.crt
cert cert.crt
key key.key
tls-auth ta.key 1
setenv FORWARD_COMPATIBLE 1
setenv PUSH_PEER_INFO
server-poll-timeout 4
reneg-sec 604800
sndbuf 100000
rcvbuf 100000
static-challenge "Enter Google Authenticator Code" 1
route-delay 5
remote-random
dev-node {11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111}

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Post by Eric » Tue Sep 13, 2016 11:51 am
Hi guidomi,

Could you please check the Event Viewer for any errors relating to Viscosity or Viscosity Service - http://sparklabs.com/support/kb/article ... nt-viewer/

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Eric
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Post by guidomi » Tue Sep 13, 2016 6:13 pm
Hi Eric,

In the event viewer, after I started my vpn connection, I get periodially the 3 errors below under security stuff. Nothing, instead, under application.

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Post by Eric » Tue Sep 13, 2016 6:19 pm
Could you please edit your connection, go to Advanced and add the following line on a new line:

#viscosity dns simultaneous

Save the connection and then try to connect again. Please let us know if the connection completes.

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Eric
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Post by guidomi » Wed Sep 14, 2016 1:57 am
Hi Eric,

Nothing is changed with this modify.

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Post by Eric » Wed Sep 14, 2016 9:34 am
Hi Guidomi,

I'm afraid we're a little stumped. Could you please boot into safe mode and see if the problem is still present there with no other applications or services running?

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Eric
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Post by Eric » Wed Sep 14, 2016 12:04 pm
Hi Guidomi,

Viscosity v1.6.6 has been released, could you please try updating to this to see if the problem still persists as well.

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Eric
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Post by guidomi » Wed Sep 14, 2016 8:58 pm
Hi Eric,

I already tried to upgrade it to the new version but I get the same issue. I also tryied the safe mode with network, but it that mode the viscosity service is unable to start.

Do you have any idea about what it could be?
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