CSslvpnAgent::Initialize() 178 InitPipeHandle() failed

[andrejochemsen]

Hi all,

At our client we have one user who is not able to make a VPN connection. The client seems to connect until it reaches 90% and then goes back to 0.

Below i pasted a piece of log from the client. 

From Fortinet community there are some topics referencing the same kind of issue. Possible solutions include disabling IPv6 on the NIC, setting remoteauthtimeout 60 on the Firewall, reinstalling the Forticlient. All of which we have tried, but didnt solve the issue.

We use SSO for single signon. Devices are Entra joined. I can see in the Enterprise Application (in Azure) that authentication is succesfull.

The client version is 7.2.4.0972. From what i read in several topics this shouldnt be a troublesome version.

The only thing we didnt try is removing the software with the fcremoval.exe tool. We did however remove the client including the data from the appdata folders. What other opties do we have besides using the fcremoval tool (we have to get on site to use this tool in safemode, hence i post this here with the question if there are other possible solutions based on the log pasted below)...

Thanks in advance.

10-12-2024 15:12:29     warning     sslvpn      CSslvpnAgent::InitPipeHandle() 137 CreateFile() failed.. LastError=231

10-12-2024 15:12:29     error sslvpn      Failed to connect to SslvpnDaemon, LastError=0

10-12-2024 15:12:29     error sslvpn      CSslvpnAgent::Initialize() 178 InitPipeHandle() failed.

10-12-2024 15:12:31     error sslvpn      date=2024-12-10 time=15:12:30 logver=1 id=96603 type=securityevent subtype=sslvpn eventtype=error level=error uid=0A47B6E045DA4B14ABC1FF1226C34134 devid=FCT8002882239296 hostname=XXXX-MP25TVCJ pcdomain=N/A deviceip=172.20.10.6 devicemac=10-6f-d9-9d-08-XX site=N/A fctver=7.2.4.0972 fgtserial=FCT80028822392XX emsserial=N/A os="Microsoft Windows 11 Enterprise Edition, 64-bit (build 26100)" user=msch@<domain>.local msg="SSLVPN tunnel connection failed" vpnstate= vpntunnel=XXXXVPNMWP remotegw=sslvpn.<domain>.nl

10-12-2024 15:12:31     info  sslvpn      date=2024-12-10 time=15:12:30 logver=1 id=96600 type=securityevent subtype=sslvpn eventtype=status level=info uid=0A47B6E045DA4B14ABC1FF1226C341XX devid=FCT80028822392XX hostname=XXXX-MP25TVCJ pcdomain=N/A deviceip=172.20.10.6 devicemac=10-6f-d9-9d-08-XX site=N/A fctver=7.2.4.0972 fgtserial=FCT80028822392XX emsserial=N/A os="Microsoft Windows 11 Enterprise Edition, 64-bit (build 26100)" user=msch@<DOMAIN> msg="SSLVPN tunnel status" vpnstate=disconnected

[Anthony_E]

Hello,

Thank you for using the Community Forum. I will seek to get you an answer or help. We will reply to this thread with an update as soon as possible.

Thanks,

[Anthony_E]

Hello,

We are still looking for someone to help you.

We will come back to you ASAP.

Regards,

[Anthony_E]

Hello,

I found this Reddit discussion:

https://www.reddit.com/r/fortinet/comments/1h82mjx/forticlient_vpn_725_and_741_do_not_work_in/

Could you please tell me if it helps?

Regards,

[M_G]

Hello,

We're running into the same issue with one of our users running Win 11 and FCT 7.4.2. The client successfully authenticates, but the FCT window closes itself at 40% while loading (we don't see a hidden window for SSL certificate warning).

We uninstalled FortiClient and reinstalled a new version (without the fcremover tool). And as suggested in the reddit thread above, we've also updated the Visual C++ on the client machine, but FCT still prints out the same error in the logs. If anyone's figured out a solution to this, please let me know. 

Thanks, 

M_G

[MZBZ]

Please collect these logs and config files and open a TAC ticket:

Collecting logs for addressing VPN connec... - Fortinet Community