Why does stunnel fail?

jamiefedora · #1 14th June 2011, 11:24 AM

Hello, How do I fix this stunnel error in Fedora 15(LoveLock)? I previously have been able to run stunnel in Fedora 14 and had stunnel up and running. Just recently moved to Fedora 15 LoveLock and now stunnel returns the following fail mesage when I try to restart stunnel.

# /etc/init.d/stunnel start
Starting stunnel (via systemctl): Job failed. See system logs and 'systemctl status' for details.
[FAILED]

Does anyone know What changed or how to fix this fail error?

Running on a IBM Lenovo ThinkPad z61m

jamiefedora · #2 19th June 2011, 07:31 AM

Anyone willing to shed some light on this error?

jamiefedora · #3 30th June 2011, 04:13 AM

Hi, is this error a bug? Anyone know? If so, where can I file a bug report? Thanks!

KenJackson · #4 30th June 2011, 04:28 AM

I've never run stunnel, but after I upgraded to F15, I did see that message at some point: Starting <something> (via systemctl): Job failed. See system logs and 'systemctl status' for details.

Can't remember what it was for or what else I did, but I think there was an update of that system just after I got the message, so I attributed the fix to the update.

Did you grep /var/log/messages for stunnel? It might give you some insight.

Also, looking at repoquery -il stunnel, I see there is an /etc/stunnel included in the package. Does it have any advice?

PetrKloutvor · #5 17th July 2011, 05:30 PM

Yes, I had same problem.
I use stunnel very long time without any problems and got this message today after aplication new patches.

I'm using stunnel for SMTP tunneling (port 25) and one of the new patches caused start sendmail so there was conflict between sendmail and SMPT tunneling.

After stopping sendmail is all OK!