My VPN works fine but I keep getting “This device appears to be connected to a network but is unable to reach the internet.” message

[cscs]

Ah, right, so I just checked on a quickly set up openvpn connection on a fresh install and it presents the same.

@dmt

the connectivity check:

sudo touch /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/20-connectivity.conf

Does simply creating an empty file actually work?

I have done it like this:
(note it has the section header and iterates the variable with nothing:

@cscs

/etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/20-connectivity.conf

[connectivity]
uri=
#uri=https://www.archlinux.org/check_network_status.txt
#interval=3200