I’m running Pop!_OS (an Ubuntu based distro). I just signed up for Proton Unlimited today, mainly for the VPN, and so far I’m not thrilled. Whenever the OS wakes from suspend, Proton VPN is disconnected and so is my internet connection. The only way I’ve found so far to restore my internet connection is to reboot. The kill switch setting is OFF. I’ve tried both the GUI and the CLI. Any thoughts on how to fix this? I was previously using NordVPN and it never had this problem.
I just go into system monitor on pop_os and kill the proton-vpn process, wait a second or so and then kill the killswitch (which is NOT enabled on my system but still activates). That works for me…pop_os 22.04.
This problem seems to have been around for years so it appears proton can’t or won’t deal with it. I just started with protonvpn so I think maybe they are not the best choice? Anyone explored alternatives?
I have issues sometimes with ProtonVPN and my internet on my laptop as well. Most of the time everything still works but once in a while things break somewhere. IP says things are normal but I can’t connect to the internet after suspend or a reboot in the cases where I forget to disconnect the VPN before doing either. When it doesn’t I can’t access anything outside my home network. Sort of like there’s a broken pipe somewhere.
Anyway when it happens I use ‘protonvpn-cli d’ to disconnect. Using the gui doesn’t work because it looks for a connection that never can complete. Once I issue that command almost immediately everything is back to normal. I don’t know if it will help your situation as YMMV. Good luck.
Have you tried running the following commands to see if it helps?
protonvpn-cli d
protonvpn-cli ks --off
nmcli connection delete pvpn-ipv6leak-protection
Thanks I’ll give this a try.
Do you have the kill switch on?
nmcli connection delete pvpn-ipv6leak-protection
this command fixed my issue, thanks a lot