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loudtrees from the network manager applet, configure VPN 🡒 Import a Saved VPN Configuration, on Budgie. Are you using something else than Network Manager? Like qomui ? But anyway the latest proposition from Josh seems to fix it for many people

      ender hi, thank you for the reply. that's the same way i did it with my air vpn file but i'm using kde. always worked until i went to 4.1..haven't been able to figure it out.

          @brent I had to pay bills online, so i esteem Solus more secure than Windoze would ever be. To make that happen with the VPN not importing from file, i did a History Rollback as a temporary means of getting my stuff done. I will re-attempt to install a Fresh batch of updates. If'n you don't mind, what would be the Terminal command to check for failures of the VPN not working? Thank you guys for your Hard Work!

            catfishsushi If'n you don't mind, what would be the Terminal command to check for failures of the VPN not working?

            Rollback is a, um, bear. The two times I have done it, it was when something was deprecated so had to keeep rolling back.
            All I can say is running the vpn thru terminal command (instead of GUI) might reveal a lot.

            I personally do not know what the terminal command is to troubleshoot vpn connections. Hope someone has some for you.

              I also have the same problem even after rolling back. I tried to manually connect in Terminal by using "sudo openvpn openVPN.ovpn" and I received a hint of the culprit. I got an error "hash algorithm 'sha512' not found" and it was the cause why it won't connect. I did some Googling and used "openvpn --show-digests" to see what else can i use for auth. I seemed to have SHA512 available and verified it in my ovpn file. I soon found out that my auth sha512 is in lower case and replaced it with SHA512. This fixed it for me.

              @uhhmeeyell I carefully pasted that command, and it gave this error:
              Options error: In [CMD-LINE]:1: Error opening configuration file: openVPN.ovpn
              so, i used the "openvpn --help" and shows a list of commands....how to find and change the sha512 to the SHA512 ?

              @catfishsushi openVPN.ovpn is my own openvpn file and location. Put your openVPN file location in that line. It should look like "sudo openvpn /somedirectory/myopenVPNfile.ovpn". My ovpn file had sha512 in lower case (double click to open with your favorite text editor) so I corrected it with SHA512 instead and it seemed to work.

              @uhhmeeyell
              okay, i can follow commands and paste things well enough. How to go about creating my own openvpn file & location, to check it as you have so kindly instructed?????

                6 days later

                @catfishsushi did you have any luck fixing this? I use IPVanish as well and I am still unable to connect via VPN since the last update.

                Luckily, I duel boot with another linux OS and am not having any VPN issues with it. Solus is my main OS though so I would like to resolve it.

                Thanks