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# sk165493 - Remote Access VPN disconnects after server policy pushes

| Property | Value |
|----------|-------|
| Solution ID | sk165493 |
| Date Created | 2020-02-28 |
| Last Modified | 2020-04-13 |
| Technical Level | Advanced |
| OS | Gaia |

## Symptoms

- * Remote Access VPN disconnects after server policy pushes.
* In *vpnd.elg* , it shows the following, which indicates that the *VPND* process crashed and restarted:  
  \[vpnd 764 4102498192\]@gateway\[5 Dec 14:31:22\] NegotiationTable::AddNegotiationByID: neg: 0xe28c5000 with id: 207227 added. pCxt: 0xe6e18f98. T_event_mainloop_iter_select: waiting for sockets to be available failed: Bad file descriptor  
  \[vpnd 764 4102498192\]@gateway\[5 Dec 14:31:22\] T_event_mainloop_e: T_event_mainloop_iter returns -1  
  \[vpnd 764 4102498192\]@gateway\[5 Dec 14:31:22\] VPN-1 daemon: exiting

## Cause

*VPND* ran out of file descriptors.

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