Protonvpn not working

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You see the problem - right?

I am using Manjaro Plasma on unstable branch - and ProtonVPN works - as can be seen from above comments - it worked at the time of your original topic and it works now.

Without hands-on it is impossible for me to know - especially when it works on my Manjaro systems and then only general recommendations can be provided.

Your internet connection has nothing to do with your issue.

No matter how I test this issue - I simply cannot reproduce it.

This is from a fully updated as of 2023-06-10T14:45:00Z default Manjaro installation running in a VirtualBox VM - and it proves without a shadow of doubt that whatever issue you have it is local.

 $ pacman-mirrors -G
stable

$ inxi -S
System:
  Host: lxqt Kernel: 6.1.31-2-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: LXQt
    v: 1.3.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux

 $ pamac build protonvpn
Preparing...
Cloning protonvpn build files...
Generating protonvpn information...
[...]
Building protonvpn...
==> Making package: protonvpn 1.0.0-3 (lør 10 jun 2023 16:45:19 CEST)
[...]
==> Finished making: protonvpn 1.0.0-3 (lør 10 jun 2023 16:45:20 CEST)
==> Cleaning up...

Checking keyring...                                                   [1/1]
Checking integrity...                                                 [1/1]
Loading packages files...                                             [1/1]
Checking file conflicts...                                            [1/1]
Checking available disk space...                                      [1/1]
Installing protonvpn (1.0.0-3)...                                     [1/1]
Transaction successfully finished.

 $ protonvpn-cli login yourusername
Enter your Proton VPN password: 

Successful login.

 $ protonvpn-cli c nl-free#142056
Setting up Proton VPN.
Connecting to Proton VPN on NL-FREE#142056 with UDP.

Successfully connected to Proton VPN.
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How the hell can I fix this? I don’t want to stay on Windows, it’s not very bad but Manjaro is just… better!

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You do understand that I cannot possibly guess what your issue is - right?

There is nothing to fix … it works!

I have proven to you threes times - it works - last time using stable branch.

We have

  • documentation that ProtonVPN is not at fault
  • documentaton that Manjaro stable branch is not at fault

We also have these very vague sentences

What we do not have

  • evidence other than your word
  • relevant logs
  • network configuration information when the error surface
    • cat /etc/resolv.conf
  • a backdoor so the system can be inspected remotely

What we have left

  • ???
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I understand that. I’m just a bit frustrated and I appreciate the help.

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Protonvpn is heavily python dependent. If your system is more than a month old, chances are you installed/built proton on python 3.10. And then the upgrade to 3.11 happened and all aur python packages have to be rebuild. As suggested in the post of @tuxdata and in different topics in the announcements and wiki.

p.s. proton works on my system. New install with python 3.11 and xfce.

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Відповідь для тих кому просто потрібний стабільний VPN, а не додаток.

В мене була схожа проблема. Я не зрозумів в чому річ. Жодної помилки. А з’єднання або не встановлювалось, або було нестабільним.

Тому я просто зайшов на сайт ProtonVPN і завантажив їх конфігураційний файл для OpenVPN. Там також є конфігурація для WireGuard (але я її не перевіряв). Цей метод працює стабільно.

У випадку з OpenVPN необхідно просто завантажити конфігураційний файл і імпортувати його за допомогою NetworkManager.

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Thank you very much. Neat idea, but unfortunately does not work - both at cli and gui version it tells wrong password (i am inserting the long special password as per instructions here - How to manually configure OpenVPN in Linux - Proton VPN Support )

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Hello Teo, I also use kde plasma and protonvpn and everything works fine for me. Maybe this will help you. My system is up to date

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The dependency tree for protonvpn looks like this
  • protonvpn
    • protnvpn-cli
      • python-protonvpn-nm-lib
        • python-pythondialog
        • python-proton-client
        • networkmanager
        • networkmanager-openvpn
        • openvpn libnm
        • dbus
        • libsecret
        • python-pyxdg
        • python-keyring
        • python-jinja
        • python-distro
        • python-dbus
        • python-systemd
        • xdg-utils
        • python-gobject
    • protonvpn-gui
      • python-protonvpn-nm-lib
      • python-gobject
      • python-psutil
      • gtk3
      • python-cairo
      • webkit2gtk

I thinking out load here - just writing my thoughts down.

I cannot reproduce - so the question I am asking myself:

What sets my system apart from yours

My systems do not throw the message - network error - which leads us to investigate your network.

Please use this [root tip] [How To] Basic network know-how and troubleshooting to investigate your network.

That proves my previous point - that is has nothing to do with Manjaro as operating system.

But if the same hardware - a laptop? - with different operating system exhitibs the same symptoms - then it has to be something hardware related - probably your wifi card.

So please provide some system information - the textual output (no screenshots, no photos, thank you) but the link provided by the following command - inxi is creating some sysinfo and curl sends the output to to ix.io which is a pastebin service

inxi -F | curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io
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This actually fixed my issue so thanks!

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I am pleased you were able to fix your issue :+1: