GlobalProtect - Cannot connect to local gpd service

[ogoili]

Hi there!

I have a little problem with GlobalProtect and I don't know how to solve it..
I use Ubuntu 18.04
Each command to globalprotect (for example globalprotect help OR globalprotect connect) returns the answer:
Cannot connect to local gpd service.

I tried to restart gpd service (sudo systemctl restart gpd), it didn't help
Command systemctl status gpd shows:
● gpd.service - GlobalProtect VPN client daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/gpd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: core-dump) since Wed 2019-01-23 14:28:07 MSK; 1s ago
  Process: 9490 ExecStart=/opt/paloaltonetworks/globalprotect/PanGPS (code=dumped, signal=SEGV)
  Process: 9487 ExecStartPre=/opt/paloaltonetworks/globalprotect/pre_exec_gps.sh (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 9490 (code=dumped, signal=SEGV)

In PanGPA.log:

P1580-T1379489536 Jan 23 10:29:27:506481 Debug( 385): Command = <response><type>status</type><state>Connected</state><error></error><disable>no</disable><on-demand>yes</on-demand></response>
P1580-T1379489536 Jan 23 10:29:27:506495 Error( 304): RelayToUI - message send to GPI failed.
P1580-T1379489536 Jan 23 10:29:27:506501 Debug(1420): ===> response sent to GPI = <response><type>status</type><state>Connected</state><error></error><disable>no</disable><on-demand>yes</on-demand></response>
P1650-T-1845340416 Jan 23 13:20:53:75840 Info ( 676): debug thread starts
P1650-T-1825032384 Jan 23 13:20:53:75893 Info (  85): start PanGPA main. 1650
P1650-T-1825032384 Jan 23 13:20:53:77223 Info ( 170): ################### main - PanGPA started. pid = 1650. ##################
P1650-T-1825032384 Jan 23 13:20:53:78096 Debug(  98): Current login user is user123.
P1650-T-1825032384 Jan 23 13:20:53:78612 Debug(  64): m_pConfig initialized.
P1650-T-1825032384 Jan 23 13:20:53:185086 Debug( 269): save-user-credentials = -1
P1650-T-1825032384 Jan 23 13:20:53:185098 Debug( 287): portal-2fa = no
P1650-T-1825032384 Jan 23 13:20:53:185100 Debug( 298): internal-gateway-2fa = no
P1650-T-1825032384 Jan 23 13:20:53:185102 Debug( 309): auto-discovery-external-gateway-2fa = no
P1650-T-1825032384 Jan 23 13:20:53:185103 Debug( 320): manual-only-gateway-2fa = no
P1650-T-1825032384 Jan 23 13:20:53:185821 Info ( 225): Current debug level = 5
P1650-T-1825032384 Jan 23 13:20:53:187491 Debug(  70): CPanUserInformation::clear - user information for portal  were all cleared include encrypted info.
P1650-T-1825032384 Jan 23 13:20:53:187503 Debug(  77): CPanUesrInformation::clearBackup - backup EP cleared.
P1650-T-1825032384 Jan 23 13:20:53:187809 Debug( 266): modp_b64_decode success. decode length = 48, buffer length = 2048
P1650-T-1825032384 Jan 23 13:20:53:187842 Debug(  85): m_pUserInfo initialized.
P1650-T-1825032384 Jan 23 13:20:53:187846 Debug( 107): CPanConfigMgrLinux initialized.
P1650-T-1825032384 Jan 23 13:20:53:187893 Info ( 580): startCommandQueue - command queue started.
P1650-T-1825032384 Jan 23 13:20:53:187896 Debug( 118): CPanCommandLinux initialized.
P1650-T-1825032384 Jan 23 13:20:53:187900 Debug(  25): CPanBaseStatsMgr::init - m_stats initialized.
P1650-T-1825032384 Jan 23 13:20:53:187902 Debug( 124): stats and stats manager initialized.
P1650-T-1825032384 Jan 23 13:20:53:187903 Debug( 129): CPanNotification initialized.
P1650-T-1825032384 Jan 23 13:20:53:187907 Debug(  87): CPanParser::handleServiceData - new receiver created.
P1650-T-1825032384 Jan 23 13:20:53:187908 Debug( 136): CPanGPIParser initialized.
P1650-T-1825032384 Jan 23 13:20:53:187910 Info ( 142): Socket is NULL while user is not switched out! recreate socket.
P1650-T-1825032384 Jan 23 13:20:53:187912 Debug( 149): New socket created.
P1650-T-1825032384 Jan 23 13:20:53:187915 Info ( 154): InitConnection ...
P1650-T-1825032384 Jan 23 13:20:53:187935 Error(  72): Failed to set nosigpipe
P1650-T-1825032384 Jan 23 13:20:53:187971 Error(  75): Failed to connect to server at port:4767
P1650-T-1825032384 Jan 23 13:20:53:187974 Error( 158): Cannot connect to service, error: 111
P1650-T-1825032384 Jan 23 13:20:53:187995 Info ( 342): startGpiCommandQueue - command queue started.
P1650-T-1946159360 Jan 23 13:20:53:187998 Error( 471): GpiCommandProc - message queue is not ready.
P1650-T-1825032384 Jan 23 13:20:53:188013 Info ( 454): StartSocketMonitor - socket monitoring started.
P1650-T-1825032384 Jan 23 13:20:53:188015 Info (  72): CPanMSAgent::Start - GpiCommandProc started.
P1650-T-1954552064 Jan 23 13:20:56:188607 Info ( 221): InitConnection ...
P1650-T-1954552064 Jan 23 13:20:56:188627 Debug(  54): fd still open before connect
P1650-T-1954552064 Jan 23 13:20:56:188635 Error(  72): Failed to set nosigpipe
P1650-T-1954552064 Jan 23 13:20:56:188672 Error(  75): Failed to connect to server at port:4767
P1650-T-1954552064 Jan 23 13:20:56:188675 Error( 225): Cannot connect to service, error: 111

The problem started after incorrect forced system shutdown (linux didn't want to wake up from the sleep mode). Before everything worked fine

Thanks in advance for your help

[BPry · Accepted solution]

@ogoili,

Active: activating

That would mean that the service isn't actually starting successfully. Once it's started it should display 'Active: active (running)'. You might want to simply remove GlobalProtect and re-install it if you keep running into issues getting the gpd service to start successfully. 

[Marton]

Hi, I have the same issue tough i reinstalled GlobalProtect, restarted gpd service and now it is active and running but i still get the error message.

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kali@linux >> ~ >> sudo systemctl restart gpd
kali@linux >> ~ >> systemctl status gpd
gpd.service - GlobalProtect VPN client daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/gpd.service; enabled; vendor preset: d>
Active: active (running) since Tue 2020-03-31 16:14:01 CEST; 9s ago
Process: 6374 ExecStartPre=/opt/paloaltonetworks/globalprotect/pre_exec_gps>
Main PID: 6377 (PanGPS)
Tasks: 5 (limit: 18981)
Memory: 16.0M
CGroup: /system.slice/gpd.service
└─6377 /opt/paloaltonetworks/globalprotect/PanGPS
kali@linux >> ~ >> globalprotect connect --portal <myportal>
Cannot connect to local gpd service.

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[Obtortokollo]

After installing the .deb package, you'll get 2 processes running:

root      6793 0.5 0.1 662044 17936 ?        Ssl 18:33 0:00 /opt/paloaltonetworks/globalprotect/PanGPS
etj       6814 0.5 0.0 340624 15348 ?        Sl 18:33 0:00 /opt/paloaltonetworks/globalprotect/PanGPA start

(where "etj" is my login user. )

The PanGPA process is started in the "postinst" script, so I guess it won't survive a reboot.

If PanGPA is not running, I get the "Cannot connect to local gpd service." error.

I had some issue running the "globalprotect" program as root, but it worked perfectly as user etj.

Also, I had to change the MTU of the gpd0 interface, since it prevented me to connect via ssh to a remote machine (search for "SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY mtu" should you get this kind of error).

So:

1) make sure PanGPA is running, together with PanGPS

2) run the globalprotect as the same user running PanGPA

   Cheers,

   Emanuele