IPSec: "no preshared key found for..."

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[PROBLEM]
OpenSwan 1.0.8 (Linux):

Trying to open a VPN connection by executing: "ipsec auto --up myconn" complains:

Can't authenticate: no preshared key found for `x.x.x.x' and `y.y.y.y'.

although there's a PSK line in "ipsec.secrets":

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x.x.x.x y.y.y.y: PSK "mysecret"

[SOLUTION]
Ipsec's pluto wasn't started correctly. In our case (using devil-linux), we simply had to run the "/etc/init.d/ipsec" startup script which initialized the whole thing.

Running "ipsec autio --up myconn" afterwards seemed to work then.