Is the installation guide in Arch/Manjaro correct?

[renaldofreire]

I rigidly followed this tutorial to install protonvpn on Arch Linux.

But I can't use it. The following problems occur:

1. After trying to connect to a vpn, the application loads infinitely;
2. The terminal version doesn't work either.

After forcing a user logout, this error appeared:

org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Object does not exist at path “/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/5”

Here is the log collected directly via the terminal

➜  ~ protonvpn
(protonvpn:20050): Gdk-CRITICAL **: 02:43:24.504: gdk_window_thaw_toplevel_updates: assertion 'window->update_and_descendants_freeze_count > 0' failed
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/protonvpn_nm_lib/core/connection_backend/nm_client/nm_client_mixin.py:11: Warning: g_main_context_push_thread_default: assertion 'acquired_context' failed
  nm_client = NM.Client.new(None)
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/protonvpn_nm_lib/core/connection_backend/nm_client/nm_client_mixin.py:11: Warning: g_main_context_pop_thread_default: assertion 'g_queue_peek_head (stack) == context' failed
  nm_client = NM.Client.new(None)

/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/protonvpn_nm_lib/core/connection_backend/nm_client/nm_client_mixin.py:52: Warning: g_main_context_push_thread_default: assertion 'acquired_context' failed
  connection.delete_async(
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/protonvpn_nm_lib/core/connection_backend/nm_client/nm_client_mixin.py:52: Warning: g_main_context_pop_thread_default: assertion 'stack != NULL' failed
  connection.delete_async(
^CTraceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/protonvpn", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('protonvpn-gui==1.11.0', 'console_scripts', 'protonvpn')())
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/protonvpn_gui/main.py", line 322, in main
    exit_status = app.run(sys.argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/gi/overrides/Gio.py", line 40, in run
    with register_sigint_fallback(self.quit):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/contextlib.py", line 142, in __exit__
    next(self.gen)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/gi/_ossighelper.py", line 237, in register_sigint_fallback
    signal.default_int_handler(signal.SIGINT, None)
KeyboardInterrupt
^C

Here are some screenshots

[mike-lloyd03]

I cannot connect on Arch either with the GUI or the CLI. It attempts to connect indefinitely but never finishes.

[guigirl42]

Hello

[disclaimer: i'm just another User like you both, i'm not from Proton].

It works really well for me in my Tower's Arch KDE, & reasonably ok also in my Lappy's Mint Cinnamon [wherein it manifests a lousy internet-blockage post-Resume if i do not remember to Disconnect it before Suspend -- a glitch entirely NOT present in my Arch KDE].

As you just read, my DE is KDE. Are you using a different DE/WM? I'm wondering if possibly your DE/WM equivalent of Kwallet might not be unlocking the app for you?

Otoh, maybe one or other of you might have succumbed to the same problem that had been plaguing my Lappy's Mint Cinnamon for several nights, which i finally "solved" today after hours more research & testing ... the culprit being the app's inbuilt IPv6 leak-blocker [https://github.com/ProtonVPN/linux-app/issues/20]. I discovered that [despite being n/a for my Arch], i had to disconnect the connection on Lappy before rebooting or suspending, otherwise next time around i had no connection, & when that annoyance happened, i had to recover by manually deactivating the killswitch [even if i'd not actually been using it] via protonvpn-cli ks --off [https://protonvpn.com/support/what-is-kill-switch/].

Fwiw also ... https://github.com/ProtonVPN/linux-app/issues/67 " Correct Dependencies for ArchLinux please #67 ".

[Soliprem]

have you managed any progress on this?