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Until the broken code with Nordvpn is fixed to communicate with our distro of Linux is there a safe place or way we can revert to an older version? I will try talking to customer support of Nordvpn. Mostly I haven't felt them all that helpful. It is like talking to the hand so to speak.

galaxysurfer wrote: Mon Nov 15, 2021 1:27 am Until the broken code with Nordvpn is fixed to communicate with our distro of Linux is there a safe place or way we can revert to an older version? I will try talking to customer support of Nordvpn. Mostly I haven't felt them all that helpful. It is like talking to the hand so to speak.

Older version can be simply installed with Synaptic and also pinned.

This seems to be a non issue. I checked again on my pc & it made me re login with message about using nordaccount.com instead of old login. This is something they have instituted across all devices. ( needing to login to nordaccount ) The terminal behaved as needed on my pc. It was family member's that was issue. Fun when you are family's tech support. They got a sock error message. They use direct app to connect to nord servers whereas I generally use my router. Wish they could afford to get asus router then problems solved. Using ip router isn't great for privacy. I will finish fixing their pc tomorrow. Thanx for quick reply.

galaxysurfer wrote: Mon Nov 15, 2021 5:33 am This seems to be a non issue. I checked again on my pc & it made me re login with message about using nordaccount.com instead of old login. This is something they have instituted across all devices. ( needing to login to nordaccount ) The terminal behaved as needed on my pc. It was family member's that was issue. Fun when you are family's tech support. They got a sock error message. They use direct app to connect to nord servers whereas I generally use my router. Wish they could afford to get asus router then problems solved. Using ip router isn't great for privacy. I will finish fixing their pc tomorrow. Thanx for quick reply.

Do you mean the terminal command to connect is now:
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Are you using systemd or sysvinit?

Nordvpn's response to my email was:

1. any success I'm having right now in connecting in sysvinit by restarting the service is a temporary workaround that may not work in future (since they insist that their program only works in systemd)

2. Arch's package is community created so too bad, not supported even if Arch is a systemd distro and their package is built from Nord's deb package.

On another note, if you haven't cleared your package cache in /var/cache/archive (I think that's the path), you can find the older .deb for version 3.11, which might still work in MX.

This is the command I was given to login. "nordvpn login" is depreciated.
After you enter that command, it takes you to their login page on their website. You login and then it logs you in on your computer. If I recall correctly. If you get that "Whoops socks error" message, run:
Then run:

(insert country after connect, or it will choose a server for you automatically)

There's a whole list of terminal commands and settings for Nord on their website. Alternatively, you can also run in terminal: and that will give you all of the commands and options. Also, I have run Nord with both SysVinit and systemd and it works both ways. Unfortunately, Nord doesn't have a GUI for Linux. It works just fine in terminal though. May be a bit of a learning curve if you're not familiar with the terminal but its really not that hard. Hope this helps and best of luck!

Side note: I'm not sure I would want to run an older version of Nord or any VPN to be honest. Older versions are not maintained and updated, which could be a security issue. Thats just my opinion. Express is another good VPN to consider if Nord doesn't work out for you.

@CyberGhost

Thanks , but having to restart service to get it to work means it's still wonky.

Terminal commands are no problem since that's how I've (and most Linux Nordvpn users apart from those using the Gnome shell extension Nordvpn Connect [oops, and of course those using openvpn profile files or Firefox plugin) have always been running it but I assumed from @galaxysurfer 's post (ie, "non-issue") that the result of using the new --nordaccount command meant no more restart was required in ver3.12.

If I still have to do a "restart" and treat that as normal procedure, then of course version 3.12 is already working for me right now (esp with fehlix's workaround here viewtopic.php?p=661743#p661743).

I had constant freezes and disconnects even with older version of NordVPN installed. Not only in MX, but in Solus as well. NordVPN support is very friendly and helpful. I've been through a few sessions with them, but there's no real solution, it seems. Browser extensions do work, but of course they don't provide a system-wide protection, only your browser activity is safe using them.
I resorted to using IPSEC/IKEv2, but somehow could not make it work in MX. I gave Devuan a try using IPSEC/IKEv2 in the network manager, and it is working fine and fast, just like in win 10/11, without having to use an app. Hope that helps.
In MX running a reconnect script every hour helps avoiding the freezes, but results in short disconnects which makes listening to music streams uncomfortable.