Nordvpn connection again

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Hello,
Once again the connection with nordvpn broke as follow:

$ nordvpn connect                                         [19:30:50]
Connecting to France #686 (fr686.nordvpn.com)
Whoops! Connection failed. Please try again. If the problem persists, contact our customer support

so I contacted the nordvpn support and the agent bot (?) proposed the following solution:

Please enter these commands to reset the NordVPN application to default settings:

sudo rm /var/lib/nordvpn/data/settings.dat
sudo rm -rf ~/.config/nordvpn

then

Try logging in and then connecting.

I used the given link and I get an error:

nordvpn connect                                         [19:27:05]
Connecting to France #639 (fr639.nordvpn.com)
Whoops! Connection failed. Please try again. If the problem persists, contact our customer support.

then

Please try switching the connection protocol to UDP. It can be changed in the NordVPN application settings.

On Linux application: Type the following commands into the Terminal window:
nordvpn set technology openvpnā€‹
ā€‹nordvpn set protocol udp

which failed

 nordvpn set technology openvpn                          [19:29:03]
Technology is set to 'OPENVPN' successfully.
jeanpat:~/ $ nordvpn set protocol udp                                [19:30:37]
Protocol is already set to 'UDP'.

Any another idea?

2

Have you tried connecting to a different country? You can list available countries to connect to like this:

nordvpn countries

Then connect to a specific country:

nordvpn connect [country]

By the way:

The default technology on a Linux system is NordLynx (based on WireGuard), which already uses UDP (see here) so this suggestion seems kind of odd. Maybe the bot needs more training! :robot:

3

hello,
Connexion to servers fails:

$ nordvpn countries                                 [20:12:43]
Albania			Germany			Poland
Argentina		Greece			Portugal
Australia		Hong_Kong		Romania
Austria			Hungary			Serbia
Belgium			Iceland			Singapore
Bosnia_And_Herzegovina	Indonesia		Slovakia
Brazil			Ireland			Slovenia
Bulgaria		Israel			South_Africa
Canada			Italy			South_Korea
Chile			Japan			Spain
Colombia		Latvia			Sweden
Costa_Rica		Lithuania		Switzerland
Croatia			Luxembourg		Taiwan
Cyprus			Malaysia		Thailand
Czech_Republic		Mexico			Turkey
Denmark			Moldova			Ukraine
Estonia			Netherlands		United_Kingdom
Finland			New_Zealand		United_States
France			North_Macedonia		Vietnam
Georgia			Norway

then

$ nordvpn connect Belgium                           [23:11:21]
Connecting to Belgium #150 (be150.nordvpn.com)
Whoops! We couldn't connect you to 'Belgium'. Please try again. If the problem persists, contact our customer support.

or

$ nordvpn connect South_Africa                      [23:11:45]
Connecting to South Africa #147 (za147.nordvpn.com)
Whoops! We couldn't connect you to 'South_Africa'. Please try again. If the problem persists, contact our customer support.
4

What is the status of the service?

systemctl status nordvpnd.service
5 
nordvpnd.service - NordVPN Daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nordvpnd.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
     Active: active (running) since Wed 2023-08-30 20:03:01 CEST; 3h 18min ago
TriggeredBy: ā— nordvpnd.socket
   Main PID: 178830 (nordvpnd)
      Tasks: 25 (limit: 13975)
     Memory: 83.2M
        CPU: 7.210s
     CGroup: /system.slice/nordvpnd.service
             ā””ā”€178830 /usr/sbin/nordvpnd

aoƻt 30 23:13:57 T430 nordvpnd[178830]: -P INPUT ACCEPT
aoƻt 30 23:13:57 T430 nordvpnd[178830]: -P FORWARD ACCEPT
aoƻt 30 23:13:57 T430 nordvpnd[178830]: -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
aoƻt 30 23:13:57 T430 nordvpnd[178830]: 2023/08/30 23:13:57 [Debug] picking servers for OPENVPN technology
aoƻt 30 23:13:57 T430 nordvpnd[178830]: 2023/08/30 23:13:57 [Warning] executing 'ip -4 rule del from all lookup main suppress_prefixlength 0' comma>
aoƻt 30 23:13:57 T430 nordvpnd[178830]: 2023/08/30 23:13:57 [Warning] executing 'ip -4 rule del not from all fwmark 57841' command: exit status 2: >
aoƻt 30 23:13:57 T430 nordvpnd[178830]: 2023/08/30 23:13:57 [Warning] executing 'ip -6 rule del from all lookup main suppress_prefixlength 0' comma>
aoƻt 30 23:13:57 T430 nordvpnd[178830]: 2023/08/30 23:13:57 [Warning] executing 'ip -6 rule del not from all fwmark 57841' command: exit status 2: >
aoƻt 30 23:13:57 T430 nordvpnd[178830]: 2023/08/30 23:13:57 [Defer] exec: Wait was already called
aoƻt 30 23:13:57 T430 nordvpnd[178830]: 2023/08/30 23:13:57 [Error] exec: Wait was already called
6

Have you tried a good old-fashioned reboot?

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the last reboot was the good one.

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