I don’t know how many hours I’ve tried and set it up now, but the app can no longer be used after reboot, no better, after that the internet is completely broken. I know, maybe it’s not easy to program this, but then they should leave it completely if it doesn’t work.
I’m not the only user, but nobody dares to say anything.
wasted days to get proton gui working, lubuntu - mint back and forth
I say how I believe it is…the proton people know well that the app doesn’t work, but they are too proud to admit it, better - they encourage on there website to use it instead of openvpn. I’ve blamed other people for mine many, many times, but not this time (unfortunately not). It would be blatant for them to admit that they don’t understand linux since all their servers are running on it, probably. good (I don’t want to start more haters who worship protonvpn for whatever). happy sunday
I used to have issues on 20.04. Randomly after weeks of working, from what I’ve read, the netconf file gets buggered up and breaks DNS. I’ve even went in there and tried to manually set it and it still didn’t work. I’d have to uninstall and reinstall proton to only have it break a few days to weeks later.
There was an OS update that came out I believe in May or June (still on 20.04) that seemed to fix the issue for me. That being said, I stopped using the GUI and started using the downloadable config files you can build from their site which work way better than the clunky GUI.
Now enter Jammy Jellyfish (22.04.1). Wireguard is completely broken no matter how you try to use it, at least without some serious workarounds that I’m not comfortable doing, as well as OpenVPN over TCP. The latter works occasionally, but is extremely unstable and has been just quitting at random times. I’ll look up at my Net indicator and no VPN is connected. This doesn’t happen with OpenVPN over UDP.
Not sure if this pertains to your situation at all, just my experience lately with Proton and Ubuntu.
Have the same problem. Ubuntu 22.04.1. Only protonvpn-cli is working.
Linux Proton app is pretty useless. I configure OpenVPN connection with the .ovpn files and don’t even bother. GUI app actually worked for me, but it had no option of automatic connection on login (seems pretty basic and present in other VPN apps), so I switched to running CLI on login, but it worked only in GNOME, then it got very wonky. I recommend just not using it. Proton should make their Linux app work on par with Windows one.
I’m running it on Mint 21 without issue, and was on 20.3 as well. Are you using the stable or preview client? The stable one definitely works fine, but I’ve never tried the preview one.
… i uninstalled all Packets
after this exercise, i even have to install mint once again, the internet connection is completely dead, no chance for me to fix it !
I’m wondering if I get a lifetime free premium-membership from proton or a new ssd-drive maybe ?
f***
Did you follow these guides?
Same here. Ubuntu-mate.22.04 No DNS after reboot. Same results on Mint Vanessa Most frustrating. I spent 5 days with support to no avail. Support was not very helpful. They kept pushing me to the same link and it still didn’t work. Proton website is filled with multiple links. I actual purchased a windows machine to access Protonvpn. I let it rest for a month to see if the problem was resolved and tried again.
It seems to work using the exact procedure. Maybe something was fixed.now but I disconnect ProtonVPN before I shutdown. edit: It crashed after 4 days. NO DNS.
Thank you for your kind help, it is good to know.
with the previous version it worked only with mint for me and only if you activated the internet connection (cable) manually every time you started the machine.
I discussed hours with the support, ivp6 leak protection is the keyword here.
Everyone worships proton, but it was good only before it became popular.
I have a paid plan but only use 1 computer at a time. now we come to the next problem. the server load is extremely high and the speed is extremely slow.
they clearly have a problem in cleverly distributing the server load. probably because most new users think they have to change the server manually after a few days or even hours for even more security. and thats a problem for the auto re-connection i think…
I’m more than happy if i find a provider that works better for me.
Okay, thank you very much for your info’s
Yep. Useless. It might work with gnome but it doesn’t work with Ubuntu-mate or Linux mint MATE. I spent 5 days working with SUPPORT and followed their instructions EXACTLY. Same result. No DNS on reboot. which means spending 40 minutes reinstalling UM and starting over. If it is suppose to work on Linux, it should work on ALL official flavors of Ubuntu and not just Gnome.
The repository can’t find this dependency.“gnome-shell-extension-appindicator gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1”
I got it to work on UM22.04 for three days, then it crashed.
I’ve used Ubuntu since 2014. I bought a windows machine
mint 21 iso img. xfce ed. and the VPN DEB Package ect. here → https://protonvpn.com/support/official-linux-vpn-mint/ , can not look into it atm…
It sounds like you activated the Killswitch and forgot to deactivate the Killswitch…
nothing to say against the instructions from the proton people, they are to the point and easy to understand - but if it doesn’t work it doesn’t help either, on the contrary.
I followed them to the point of installing the appindicator. My flavor of Ubuntu is not gnome but ubuntu mate and the gnome dependencies are not installed or wouldn’t install. If I were getting the Protonvpn suite free, I wouldn’t complain but I’m paying for unlimited access.
I think it’s time that they dropped the freeloaders and concentrated their efforts on paying customers.
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no chance buddy - i know it from before. but I’ll leave it to give a lecture now
and yes, now it’s running with openvpn and it’s stable up to now
Please contact support so they can debug the issue with you. Please have a little patience and probably they’ll help you.