tstun.New("tailscale0"): operation not permitted

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Hi all, thanks in advance for the support.
I am running Tailscale on Manjaro. I used the package manager to install tailscale. When attempting to run tailscale, I run into several errors:

tailscale status                                                                  ✔ 
failed to connect to local tailscaled; it doesn't appear to be running (sudo systemctl start tailscaled ?)

sudo systemctl start tailscaled

^ Does not return anything.

tailscaled                                                                      1 ✘ 
logtail started
Program starting: v1.32.3, Go 1.19.3: []string{"tailscaled"}
LogID: 8ef6d8c3452d55de33bee02909f6f3db1bfbb260636a65b71600527254411535
logpolicy: using system state directory "/home/aaronm/.local/share/tailscale"
wgengine.NewUserspaceEngine(tun "tailscale0") ...
Linux kernel version: 5.15.81-1-MANJARO
'modprobe tun' successful
/dev/net/tun: Dcrw-rw-rw-
wgengine.NewUserspaceEngine(tun "tailscale0") error: tstun.New("tailscale0"): operation not permitted
flushing log.
logger closing down
createEngine: tstun.New("tailscale0"): operation not permitted

Glad to provide more information and to research more if information is provided on how to proceed. Other than that, this total newb is stuck.
Thanks!

2

Looks like Tailscale is running with insufficient permissions. What user is defined in tailscaled.service?

Does sudo tailscale status work?

3

sudo tailscale status does not return anything

Here is the contents of my tailscaled.service:

[Unit]
Description=Tailscale node agent
Documentation=https://tailscale.com/kb/
Wants=network-pre.target
After=network-pre.target NetworkManager.service systemd-resolved.service

[Service]
EnvironmentFile=/etc/default/tailscaled
ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/tailscaled --cleanup
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/tailscaled --state=/var/lib/tailscale/tailscaled.state --socket=/run/tailscale/tailscaled.sock --port=${PORT} $FLAGS
ExecStopPost=/usr/sbin/tailscaled --cleanup

Restart=on-failure

RuntimeDirectory=tailscale
RuntimeDirectoryMode=0755
StateDirectory=tailscale
StateDirectoryMode=0700
CacheDirectory=tailscale
CacheDirectoryMode=0750
Type=notify

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
4

More information found:

Running systemctl status tailscale

Unit tailscale.service could not be found.

Could it be simply that the tailscaled.service file is in the wrong location? Just throwing out an idea.

5

I think you need systemctl status tailscaled. tailscaled is the daemon name (as well as the service), whereas tailscale is the client that connects to the daemon.

6

Well, this had been diagnosed as my system was critically injured from a previous problem, and it just didn’t show symptoms until now.
Reformatted and reinstalled Manjaro and tailscale works perfectly fine now.

Thanks for all of the time you guys spent

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