Comment 2 for bug 1549436

Hello Simon,

No, I do not have encrypted certs and StrongSwan works well as a service without user interaction:

# sudo ipsec start --nofork
Starting strongSwan 5.1.2 IPsec [starter]...
00[DMN] Starting IKE charon daemon (strongSwan 5.1.2, Linux 3.13.0-48-generic, x86_64)
00[CFG] loading ca certificates from '/etc/ipsec.d/cacerts'
00[CFG] loaded ca certificate "C=US, O=ShareG.co, OU=VPN Dept, CN=ca-root.shareg.co, <email address hidden>" from '/etc/ipsec.d/cacerts/cacert.pem'
00[CFG] loading aa certificates from '/etc/ipsec.d/aacerts'
00[CFG] loading ocsp signer certificates from '/etc/ipsec.d/ocspcerts'
00[CFG] loading attribute certificates from '/etc/ipsec.d/acerts'
00[CFG] loading crls from '/etc/ipsec.d/crls'
00[CFG] loading secrets from '/etc/ipsec.secrets'
00[CFG] loaded RSA private key from '/etc/ipsec.d/private/vpn.shareg.co.pem'
00[CFG] loaded IKE secret for vpn.shareg.co
00[LIB] loaded plugins: charon test-vectors aes rc2 sha1 sha2 md4 md5 rdrand random nonce x509 revocation constraints pkcs1 pkcs7 pkcs8 pkcs12 pem openssl xcbc cmac hmac ctr ccm gcm attr kernel-netlink resolve socket-default stroke updown eap-identity eap-mschapv2 eap-radius xauth-eap addrblock
...

OR

# sudo service strongswan start && sudo tail /var/log/syslog
Feb 24 22:20:56 vpn-01 charon: 00[DMN] Starting IKE charon daemon (strongSwan 5.1.2, Linux 3.13.0-48-generic, x86_64)
Feb 24 22:20:56 vpn-01 charon: 00[CFG] loading ca certificates from '/etc/ipsec.d/cacerts'
Feb 24 22:20:56 vpn-01 charon: 00[CFG] loaded ca certificate "C=US, O=ShareG.co, OU=VPN Dept, CN=ca-root.shareg.co, <email address hidden>" from '/etc/ipsec.d/cacerts/cacert.pem'
Feb 24 22:20:56 vpn-01 charon: 00[CFG] loading aa certificates from '/etc/ipsec.d/aacerts'
Feb 24 22:20:56 vpn-01 charon: 00[CFG] loading ocsp signer certificates from '/etc/ipsec.d/ocspcerts'
Feb 24 22:20:56 vpn-01 charon: 00[CFG] loading attribute certificates from '/etc/ipsec.d/acerts'
Feb 24 22:20:56 vpn-01 charon: 00[CFG] loading crls from '/etc/ipsec.d/crls'
Feb 24 22:20:56 vpn-01 charon: 00[CFG] loading secrets from '/etc/ipsec.secrets'
Feb 24 22:20:56 vpn-01 charon: 00[CFG] loaded RSA private key from '/etc/ipsec.d/private/vpn.shareg.co.pem'
Feb 24 22:20:56 vpn-01 charon: 00[CFG] loaded IKE secret for vpn.shareg.co
Feb 24 22:20:56 vpn-01 charon: 00[LIB] loaded plugins: charon test-vectors aes rc2 sha1 sha2 md4 md5 rdrand random nonce x509 revocation constraints pkcs1 pkcs7 pkcs8 pkcs12 pem openssl xcbc cmac hmac ctr ccm gcm attr kernel-netlink resolve socket-default stroke updown eap-identity eap-mschapv2 eap-radius xauth-eap addrblock
...