From 30123292aa04378fc4b34aebb1a0c10eb80472e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: litinoveweedle <15144712+litinoveweedle@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2026 19:33:05 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] implement waiting for opevpn interface to come up

---
 qbittorrent/rootfs/usr/local/sbin/vpn | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/qbittorrent/rootfs/usr/local/sbin/vpn b/qbittorrent/rootfs/usr/local/sbin/vpn
index 489f85493..2d2bd6290 100755
--- a/qbittorrent/rootfs/usr/local/sbin/vpn
+++ b/qbittorrent/rootfs/usr/local/sbin/vpn
@@ -361,6 +361,16 @@ _openvpn_up() {
         --up-restart \
         --route-nopull \
         --route-noexec" || return 1
+
+    #wait for slow OpenVPN interface to come up
+    for i in {1..10}; do
+        if ip link show "${config["Interface"]}" > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
+            return 0
+        fi
+        sleep 2
+    done
+    bashio::log.error "OpenVPN interface ${config["Interface"]} failed to come up."
+    return 1
 }
 
 _openvpn_down() {