This is very strange. You have this in the logs
For some reason it looks to me that OpenVPN can not read the conf file? But why? Many people are using this guide on the same setup without any problem. Let me think of this.
Can you give me the output of the systemd for OpenVPN
And the following:
And
UPDATE: I checked again the Build OpenVPN guide on clean Debian 8 VM, did basically a copy/paste, then followed the Split Tunnel guide to configure systemd and PIA, everything worked as it should. Not a single error.
Code:
Jan 12 14:17:13 raspberrypi ovpn-openvpn[628]: Options error: In [CMD-LINE]:1: Error opening configuration file: /etc/openvpn/openvpn.conf
Can you give me the output of the systemd for OpenVPN
Code:
sudo cat /etc/systemd/system/openvpn@openvpn.service
Code:
which openvpn
Code:
cat /etc/openvpn/openvpn.conf
UPDATE: I checked again the Build OpenVPN guide on clean Debian 8 VM, did basically a copy/paste, then followed the Split Tunnel guide to configure systemd and PIA, everything worked as it should. Not a single error.