I’m trying to run the official ProtonVPN client in the fedora-40-minimal template. I experienced a lot of errors and messages that “Something went wrong.” I think I managed to install all of the required packages because I no longer get errors when logging in or attempting to connect. However, that meant installing and running NetworkManager. This also meant adding the network-manager service in the settings for the VM but this disables internet access within the VM for some reason. This is a template that provides network access to other VMs if that matters. edit: It’s actually the ProtonVPN client disabling network access when I try to connect not a result of enabling the NetworkManager service.
edit: I also had to install a package related the keyrings but I don’t remember which one. And also wireguard-tools for wireguard support.
Only error that is shown in the console is that the connection timed out, and this is the case using either of the 3 backends openvpn-tcp, openvpn-udp, or wireguard:
2024-10-06T23:05:43.376608 | proton.vpn.core.connection:419 | INFO | CONN:STATE_CHANGED | Disconnected
2024-10-06T23:05:43.376874 | proton.vpn.connection.persistence:111 | WARNING | CONN.PERSISTENCE:REMOVE | Connection persistence not found when trying to remove it: /home/user/.cache/Proton/VPN/connection/connection_persistence.json
2024-10-06T23:05:43.483160 | proton.vpn.core.connection:419 | INFO | CONN:STATE_CHANGED | Connecting
2024-10-06T23:05:48.585647 | proton.vpn.backend.linux.networkmanager.core.networkmanager:86 | INFO | VPN server NOT reachable.
2024-10-06T23:05:48.586033 | proton.vpn.core.connection:419 | INFO | CONN:STATE_CHANGED | Error
2024-10-06T23:05:48.586193 | proton.vpn.connection.states:351 | WARNING | Reached connection error state: Timeout (None)
2024-10-06T23:05:48.591508 | proton.vpn.app.gtk.services.reconnector.reconnector:192 | INFO | VPN connection drop was detected.
2024-10-06T23:05:48.591576 | proton.vpn.app.gtk.services.reconnector.reconnector:134 | INFO | Reconnection attempt #4 scheduled in 15.25 seconds.
2024-10-06T23:06:03.842731 | proton.vpn.app.gtk.services.reconnector.reconnector:217 | INFO | Reconnecting (attempt #4)...
2024-10-06T23:06:03.845053 | proton.vpn.core.connection:336 | INFO | CONN.CONNECT:START | Server: US-NY#470 / Domain: node-us-134.protonvpn.net / IP: 89.187.178.173 / OpenVPN Ports: ProtocolPorts(udp=[80, 51820, 4569, 1194, 5060], tcp=[443, 7770, 8443]) / WireGuard Ports: ProtocolPorts(udp=[443, 88, 1224, 51820, 500, 4500], tcp=[443]) / Protocol: openvpn-udp / Backend: linuxnetworkmanager
2024-10-06T23:06:03.845992 | proton.vpn.core.connection:419 | INFO | CONN:STATE_CHANGED | Disconnecting
2024-10-06T23:06:03.846151 | proton.vpn.core.connection:419 | INFO | CONN:STATE_CHANGED | Disconnected
2024-10-06T23:06:03.846379 | proton.vpn.connection.persistence:111 | WARNING | CONN.PERSISTENCE:REMOVE | Connection persistence not found when trying to remove it: /home/user/.cache/Proton/VPN/connection/connection_persistence.json
2024-10-06T23:06:03.954521 | proton.vpn.core.connection:419 | INFO | CONN:STATE_CHANGED | Connecting
2024-10-06T23:06:09.069633 | proton.vpn.backend.linux.networkmanager.core.networkmanager:86 | INFO | VPN server NOT reachable.
2024-10-06T23:06:09.069955 | proton.vpn.core.connection:419 | INFO | CONN:STATE_CHANGED | Error
2024-10-06T23:06:09.070384 | proton.vpn.connection.states:351 | WARNING | Reached connection error state: Timeout (None)
2024-10-06T23:06:09.078360 | proton.vpn.app.gtk.services.reconnector.reconnector:192 | INFO | VPN connection drop was detected.
2024-10-06T23:06:09.078446 | proton.vpn.app.gtk.services.reconnector.reconnector:134 | INFO | Reconnection attempt #5 scheduled in 29.82 seconds.
2024-10-06T23:06:38.900320 | proton.vpn.app.gtk.services.reconnector.reconnector:217 | INFO | Reconnecting (attempt #5)...
2024-10-06T23:06:38.928501 | proton.vpn.core.connection:336 | INFO | CONN.CONNECT:START | Server: US-NY#470 / Domain: node-us-134.protonvpn.net / IP: 89.187.178.173 / OpenVPN Ports: ProtocolPorts(udp=[80, 51820, 4569, 1194, 5060], tcp=[443, 7770, 8443]) / WireGuard Ports: ProtocolPorts(udp=[443, 88, 1224, 51820, 500, 4500], tcp=[443]) / Protocol: openvpn-udp / Backend: linuxnetworkmanager
2024-10-06T23:06:38.939150 | proton.vpn.core.connection:419 | INFO | CONN:STATE_CHANGED | Disconnecting
2024-10-06T23:06:38.939348 | proton.vpn.core.connection:419 | INFO | CONN:STATE_CHANGED | Disconnected
2024-10-06T23:06:38.940268 | proton.vpn.connection.persistence:111 | WARNING | CONN.PERSISTENCE:REMOVE | Connection persistence not found when trying to remove it: /home/user/.cache/Proton/VPN/connection/connection_persistence.json
2024-10-06T23:06:39.046542 | proton.vpn.core.connection:419 | INFO | CONN:STATE_CHANGED | Connecting
2024-10-06T23:06:44.164700 | proton.vpn.backend.linux.networkmanager.core.networkmanager:86 | INFO | VPN server NOT reachable.
2024-10-06T23:06:44.204039 | proton.vpn.core.connection:419 | INFO | CONN:STATE_CHANGED | Error
2024-10-06T23:06:44.206656 | proton.vpn.connection.states:351 | WARNING | Reached connection error state: Timeout (None)
2024-10-06T23:06:44.217303 | proton.vpn.app.gtk.services.reconnector.reconnector:192 | INFO | VPN connection drop was detected.
2024-10-06T23:06:44.217376 | proton.vpn.app.gtk.services.reconnector.reconnector:134 | INFO | Reconnection attempt #6 scheduled in 63.38 seconds.
In case anyone is following along, I had to install libayatana-appindicator3 to get the applet icon, NetworkManager and enable the network-manager service within the settings for the VM, and also NetworkManager-openvpn. I think that is all of the extra packages I needed to install in addition the the dependencies from the official RPM install.
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