On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Octapon wrote TO ME PRIVATELY:hi jk. thanks for the attention. I tried adding the newlines to the end of the config file, but go no love. I was already operating in private, unshared mode. I was a little sketched sending my config to the mailing list, so I'm sending it only directly to you. any more ideas or things I can try?
I understand that reluctance, no problem.
And I'm sorry this is a problem for you -- you apparently have a completely different problem than streich7.
Your configuration file looks OK, and it has the necessary "dev tun" line, so the only other thing I can think of is that there are invisible characters in it somewhere. Sometimes that is the result of having a file from Windows. Windows uses the invisible characters CR (0x0D) and LF (0x0A) to terminate lines, but OS X uses only a LF. So the CR looks like a garbage character to some OS X programs (including Tunnelblick and OpenVPN).
(When you install a configuration, recent versions of Tunnelblick filter out or complain about such characters, but that doesn't happen when you connect an existing configuration, only when you install or replace a configuration.) So you could just re-install.
Or you might want to try using a line-ending-santitizer program such as "ConvertNewlines". I downloaded it years ago from
Private configurations are stored in
/Users/YOUR_USERNAME/Library/ApplicationSupport/Tunnelblick/CONFIGURATION.tblk/Contents/Resources/config.ovpn