SSH Service says Active but Connection is Refused

[Tom_Doyle]

Hi Flapflap,

Apr 27 21:50:02 osmc sshd[401]: error: Bind to port 22 on 90.127.15.196 failed: Cannot assign requested address.
Apr 27 21:50:02 osmc sshd[401]: error: Bind to port 22 on 192.168.1.13 failed: Cannot assign requested address.
Apr 27 21:50:02 osmc sshd[401]: Server listening on 127.0.0.1 port 22.
Apr 27 21:50:02 osmc sshd[401]: error: Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0 failed: Address already in use.

And

-rw-r--r--  1 root root   320 Sep 30  2014 openvpn.service
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   361 Sep 30  2014 openvpn@.service

You seem to have 2 openvpn systemd units enabled, you should only have one.

I would disable openvpn@.service

sudo systemctl disable openvpn@.service and reboot, I’m not sure if this will resolve your ssh issue; but it should help.

If you have any issues with your vpn after this (to be honest I would do this anyway):

@dillthedog

My recommendation (NB it’s not the only way) is that you should never enable openvpn@xxxx.service since there is the real risk of having openvpn@xxxx.service and openvpn@yyyy.service enabled at the same time.

Instead, make the file /etc/default/openvpn your “master switch”. There is an AUTOSTART=“xxxxx” line where you specify which vpn.conf file should run when openvpn.service runs. Using this file keeps things simple and in one location.

Thanks Tom.