Cannot delete OpenVPN instance - bug?

[ozpac]

Hi. The VPN > OpenVPN > Instances GUI page has a 'delete selected' button at the bottom of the list, but the items in the list do not have a 'select' checkbox so  I am unable to delete the instance I have defined there.

Is this a GUI bug perhaps?


N.B. The logs are showing this error:

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Error openvpn /usr/local/opnsense/scripts/openvpn/ovpn_service_control.php: The command '/usr/local/sbin/openvpn --config '/var/etc/openvpn/instance-2f5ea79b-4cb0-4e59-bbbf-d87bd9ab72e3.conf'' returned exit code '1', the output was ''

[George Broughton]

I have the same problem.

I created a broken instance while trying to make sense of the setup guides, and now i cannot delete the instance i created because neither the delete ellipsis button to the right works, nor does the delete selected button due to there being no checkboxes.

[George Broughton]

So, it turns out that if you open the interface in Firefox, the buttons work. I have a feeling that the margins or something aren't properly set in chrome/edge which leads to the problem of nothing being selectable.

[pankaj]

I solved it little differently by logging into the OPNSense console with following steps:

1. grep -n openvpn-server /conf/config.xml | sed 's/:/ /' --> this will give you the line number where OpenVPN server specific line numbers
2. cat -n /conf/config.xml | sed -n '6478,6500p' --> replace line numbers with your machine specific details, this will show you the entire block
3. nano +6478 /conf/config.xml  -> this will open nano at the specified line number
4. CTRL+K --> deletes the line at cursor position, delete the entire block between <openvpn-server> </openvpn-server>
5. Exit from shell and reload all services from command line, you should be able to see from GUI that the openvpn-server instance that you wanted to delete is no longer there.

And before you do any of the above, backup your config.xml file!