Nordvpn-bin 3.88-1 Issue fix

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nordvpn-bin (CLI app) 3.88 has an issue where it throws up a “Whoops! Cannot reach System Daemon” error. NordVPN works fine in Network Manager with OpenVPN.
Fix is as follows:
You need to create the system group manually and add yourself to that group:

sudo groupadd -r nordvpn
sudo systemctl enable --now nordvpnd.service
sudo gpasswd -a your user name nordvpn

reboot

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If you would read the information while installing, you would not have an issue:

  echo ':: In order to enable nordvpn you have to start the following service:'
  echo '     sudo systemctl enable --now nordvpnd'

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/nordvpn-bin.install?h=nordvpn-bin

No offense…

Is it really necessary to create a new group?

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Group was necessary in my case on two computers. I did re-enable the service which threw another error. I think it was nordvpnd.socket. I am not sure. Poster in AUR for nordvpn-bin offered solution. It worked for me and I passed it along to maybe help someone here. Poster indicated it was broken in
3.85 as well.

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If you want to use something different this gui works perfectly with manjaro

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Thanks. I use through network manager openvpn. I just happened upon the issue because I was checking out nordlynx (wireguard) and that only works with CLI AFAIK

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Yes, I guess it is necessary. I couldn’t get it to work otherwise, anyway.

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Its the very first comment on the AUR page.
(along with a string of related comments)
That should be among the first/basic steps when investigating an AUR package.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nordvpn-bin/#comment-781592

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jrichard326 I have done just your first line “sudo groupadd -r nordvpn” and I get this.
“groupadd: group ‘nordvpn’ already exists”

I also tried my account “sudo groupadd -r bushtuckerman” and I still get
groupadd: group ‘bushtuckerman’ already exists

So I try to login as usual and I get this
“Whoops! Cannot reach System Daemon.”

Just for good measure I tried to display nord’s status “nordvpn status”
and still get this “Whoops! Cannot reach System Daemon.”

Have I missed something here?

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Did you reboot?

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Yeah rebooted. No change. Also did:
systemctl enable nordvpnd.service
systemctl start nordvpnd.service

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You still need to add your username to the nordvpn group like instructions said.
If I understand correctly your user name is bushtuckerman? then do:

sudo gpasswd -a bushtuckerman nordvpn

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Have you updated to 3.88-2 which was released today. I believe they have written the groupadd into the install.

  echo ':: In order to enable nordvpn you have to start the following service:'
  echo '     sudo systemctl enable --now nordvpnd'
  echo ':: You have to add yourself to the nordvpn group to use it:'
  echo     gpasswd -a USERNAME nordvpn
}```
also
```echo "g nordvpn - -" | install -Dm644 /dev/stdin "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/sysusers.d/${pkgname}.conf"```
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Thanks jrichard326 & Kereldude. I did both upgrade to 3.88-2 and “sudo gpasswd -a bushtuckerman nordvpn” now it works. Not sure which one did the job but all fixed!! Thanks once again.

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Thanks, this solution was also needed for me :+1:

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The solution wasn’t to enable the service but to read the previous page of comment where it was explained.

kamil commented on 2020-12-17 22:48

The version 3.8.8 is working fine but you need to create the system group manually and add yourself to that group:

sudo groupadd -r nordvpn
yay -Syu nordvpn-bin
sudo systemctl enable --now nordvpnd.service
sudo gpasswd -a <username> nordvpn

Log out and in to finish group update process.

Nope they just added a comment that shows in the pamac (or other helper) console. You NEED to do the process explained in the AUR comments.

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I’m starting to feel that the best solution is to get a refund from nordvpn and unsubscribing from all sponsored youtube channels

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