ExpressVPN daemon not starting [Solved]

[Hellrazor]

I have been trying to install expressVPN on MX-Linux with sysvinit. works fine if I boot with systemd.

I did follow these two threads: viewtopic.php?f=108&t=61024 and then this one here viewtopic.php?f=108&t=60972.
but it is not working for me.

I instead get this error: [FAIL] Restarting ExpressVPN service: expressvpnd failed!

thanks for your help

[fehlix]

I have been trying to install expressVPN on MX-Linux with sysvinit. works fine if I boot with systemd.

I did follow these two threads: viewtopic.php?f=108&t=61024 and then this one here viewtopic.php?f=108&t=60972.
but it is not working for me.

I instead get this error: [FAIL] Restarting ExpressVPN service: expressvpnd failed!

thanks for your help

Seems they changed something, to make it not working again...
A fixed MXPI-installer version attached as file mxpi_expressvpn_pm.tar.gz
To install the MXPI pm-file do this:
Download the file mxpi_expressvpn_pm.tar.gz.
Open terminal within the downloaded folder:
and run this command:

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sudo tar  --directory=/  -xzvf  ./mxpi_expressvpn_pm.tar.gz

Now start MXPI (MX Package Installer) and (re-)install ExpressVPN.
Let us know whether it works now.

[Hellrazor]

Works very well, thank you fehlix. Tested on fresh install and on reinstall.

I am curious to understand as why it worked with antix linux and not with MX? Both are using sysvinit.

[fehlix]

Works very well, thank you fehlix. Tested on fresh install and on reinstall.

I am curious to understand as why it worked with antix linux and not with MX? Both are using sysvinit.

That's a good question:
The reason, they do check with there installer whethr they boot in Systemd or not,
in the old version by running

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which systemctl

But in MX we do have systemctl installed, (in order to be able to boot in systemd by selectiiong on the Grub menu). And in antiX you do not have systemctl installed.

So I original fixed it by replacing the unreliable check
with

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test -d /run/systemd/system

which is the only proper test to check for running in systemd.
Now with the latest deb-package they "improved" the test
from

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which systemctl 

to

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command -v systemctl 

Still an unreliable test, so I adjusted my fix , to change either which-/or the commnad-v test to the proper test one.
There are some other small issues within their init.d script, which I fixed by just converting
their systemd.service file to a simplified SysVinit-service script.
That's mainly it.

[Hellrazor]

Complicated but clear. Thanks a lot.

[joseph.giannaci]

What I had to do was to re-boot the computer with systemd, remove and purge the package, reboot the computer with SysV init, unpack that tar file (using that command that was provided), then reinstall using the package manager.
it werkd

[razor2021]

I have been trying to install expressVPN on MX-Linux with sysvinit. works fine if I boot with systemd.

I did follow these two threads: viewtopic.php?f=108&t=61024 and then this one here viewtopic.php?f=108&t=60972.
but it is not working for me.

I instead get this error: [FAIL] Restarting ExpressVPN service: expressvpnd failed!

thanks for your help

Seems they changed something, to make it not working again...
A fixed MXPI-installer version attached as file mxpi_expressvpn_pm.tar.gz
To install the MXPI pm-file do this:
Download the file mxpi_expressvpn_pm.tar.gz.
Open terminal within the downloaded folder:
and run this command:

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sudo tar  --directory=/  -xzvf  ./mxpi_expressvpn_pm.tar.gz

Now start MXPI (MX Package Installer) and (re-)install ExpressVPN.
Let us know whether it works now.

I had installed MX19 last year, but I am still amazed that this workaround still works to correct the expressvpn install issues. So, thanking you for the fix in your attachment.

Thanks again.