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msqest

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Registered: 2022-01-31

Posts: 1

[SOLVED] Kernel update breaks device detection

My problem is not severe but still a major inconvenience to me.
It seems to me that as soon as I update the kernel with pacman -Syu openvpn can't access the tun/tap interface anymore and forces a fatal error

ERROR: Cannot open TUN/TAP dev /dev/net/tun: No such device (errno=19)
Exiting due to fatal error

The only solution I found so far was rebooting the system, but I am hoping there was a better way instead of rebooting after every update like a windows machine.

Appreciate for any help.

Last edited by msqest (2022-02-07 12:59:34)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,223

Re: [SOLVED] Kernel update breaks device detection

This is normal, as your running kernel cannot load it's modules anymore as they have been removed.

There's the kernel-modules-hook package you can install which should help you with this.