racoon ERROR: failed select (Invalid argument)

I'd like to second the observations about racoon spamming the log file to the point that I have to filter to get to the important stuff.

However, I also noticed that, once I connected and to my Time Capsule disk across multiple networks, racoon seemed much happier. No more spamming of messages for the last 15 minutes after unmounting the Time Capsule disk. Though I get now log entries about IKE packets and phases -- despite having unmounted.

I started getting them some time around midnight - didn't notice anything odd, but I was just poking around and opened up the Console log (which I try to do about once a week).

I killed everything I was running and it was still coming in.
I do run Time Capsule, but haven't noted any issues with it.

Here was my actual message:

racoon[87]: [87] ERROR: failed select (Invalid argument)

Google suggested a VPN issue someone had, but it was an old report.


I'm going to just reboot and keep an eye out for it.

Kill -15 (Kill process) was sufficient to get rid of the process.

For me, stopping/starting the VPN process via Server Admin stopped these errors.

A little history:

The switch to which the VPN server was connected rebooted overnight. Within an hour, the server completely froze. The server was cold booted that morning and the racoon errors started after the boot.