Re: [PLUG] WiFi issues on Ubuntu after installing Nordvpn

On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 10:36 AM H Mottaleb <h_mottaleb@yahoo.com> wrote:

A new observation:

Restarted the system, didn’t connect to the vpn,everything worked fine until I turned off my Wi-Fi. Nothing works after turning off the Wi-Fi even if I try to turn it on again. The status of the Wi-Fi shows that it’s on, but I’m not able to access any websites or do anything else on the laptop. Not even shutting the system down or running some commands in the terminal.

This is a pretty news set up, so I’m wondering if it would be better to reformat the hard drive install everything from scratch?

Also, has anybody used NordVPN without installing it?

On Friday, March 22, 2024, 10:28 AM, H Mottaleb <h_mottaleb@yahoo.com> wrote:
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded after running sudo apt -f install command

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On Friday, March 22, 2024, 10:10 AM, Michael Lazin via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
Mar 22 09:07:59 axel-Precision-M6800 systemd[1]: Finished Download data for packages that failed at package install time.

This looks like a package failed to install. What happens when you run "sudo apt -f install". This will force install of packages that may have failed by getting the dependencies.

Michael Lazin

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On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 9:45 AM H Mottaleb via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:

After running memtest, I restarted the system and I was able to login fine.

This is what I got from the syslog:

udo tail -f /var/log/syslog
[sudo] password for axel:
Mar 22 09:06:22 axel-Precision-M6800 systemd[1]: systemd-timedated.service: Deactivated successfully.
Mar 22 09:06:22 axel-Precision-M6800 rtkit-daemon[1168]: Supervising 9 threads of 6 processes of 2 users.
Mar 22 09:06:22 axel-Precision-M6800 rtkit-daemon[1168]: Supervising 9 threads of 6 processes of 2 users.
Mar 22 09:07:00 axel-Precision-M6800 systemd[1613]: Started Application launched by gnome-shell.
Mar 22 09:07:00 axel-Precision-M6800 dbus-daemon[1647]: [session uid=1000 pid=1647] Activating via systemd: service name='org.gnome.Terminal' unit='gnome-terminal-server.service' requested by ':1.108' (uid=1000 pid=3347 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-terminal.real " label="unconfined")
Mar 22 09:07:00 axel-Precision-M6800 systemd[1613]: Created slice Slice /app/org.gnome.Terminal.
Mar 22 09:07:00 axel-Precision-M6800 systemd[1613]: Starting GNOME Terminal Server...
Mar 22 09:07:00 axel-Precision-M6800 dbus-daemon[1647]: [session uid=1000 pid=1647] Successfully activated service 'org.gnome.Terminal'
Mar 22 09:07:00 axel-Precision-M6800 systemd[1613]: Started GNOME Terminal Server.
Mar 22 09:07:01 axel-Precision-M6800 systemd[1613]: Started VTE child process 3370 launched by gnome-terminal-server process 3352.
Mar 22 09:07:59 axel-Precision-M6800 anacron[832]: Job `cron.daily' started
Mar 22 09:07:59 axel-Precision-M6800 anacron[3392]: Updated timestamp for job `cron.daily' to 2024-03-22
Mar 22 09:07:59 axel-Precision-M6800 systemd[1]: Starting Download data for packages that failed at package install time...
Mar 22 09:07:59 axel-Precision-M6800 systemd[1]: update-notifier-download.service: Deactivated successfully.
Mar 22 09:07:59 axel-Precision-M6800 systemd[1]: Finished Download data for packages that failed at package install time.
Mar 22 09:07:59 axel-Precision-M6800 cracklib: no dictionary update necessary.
Mar 22 09:07:59 axel-Precision-M6800 anacron[832]: Job `cron.daily' terminated
Mar 22 09:08:11 axel-Precision-M6800 dbus-daemon[836]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.timedate1' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.timedate1.service' requested by ':1.25' (uid=0 pid=854 comm="/usr/lib/snapd/snapd " label="unconfined")
Mar 22 09:08:11 axel-Precision-M6800 systemd[1]: Starting Time & Date Service...
Mar 22 09:08:11 axel-Precision-M6800 dbus-daemon[836]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.timedate1'
Mar 22 09:08:11 axel-Precision-M6800 systemd[1]: Started Time & Date Service.
Mar 22 09:08:11 axel-Precision-M6800 kernel: [ 333.972244] audit: type=1107 audit(1711112891.659:75): pid=836 uid=102 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=unconfined msg='apparmor="DENIED" operation="dbus_method_call" bus="system" path="/org/freedesktop/timedate1" interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" mask="send" name=":1.128" pid=2472 label="snap.firefox.firefox" peer_pid=3424 peer_label="unconfined"
Mar 22 09:08:11 axel-Precision-M6800 kernel: [ 333.972244] exe="/usr/bin/dbus-daemon" sauid=102 hostname=? addr=? terminal=?'
Mar 22 09:08:12 axel-Precision-M6800 snapd[854]: storehelpers.go:791: cannot refresh: snap has no updates available: "bare", "core", "core20", "core22", "firefox", "gimp", "gnome-3-38-2004", "gnome-42-2204", "gtk-common-themes", "gtk2-common-themes", "snap-store", "snapd", "snapd-desktop-integration"
Mar 22 09:08:27 axel-Precision-M6800 ubuntu-report[1624]: level=error msg="data were not delivered successfully to metrics server, retrying in 240s"
Mar 22 09:08:41 axel-Precision-M6800 systemd[1]: systemd-timedated.service: Deactivated successfully.

On Friday, March 22, 2024 at 08:28:23 AM EDT, H Mottaleb via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:

As far as getting results from the syslog, i’m not able to login as the system is running several test during boot up as stated above.

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On Friday, March 22, 2024, 8:19 AM, H Mottaleb via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
I have been running memtest86 on the system for over 12 hours now and it tells me it has passed the test 5 times with zero errors and it’s still running.

As for the VPN install, I followed the instructions listed below:

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On Thursday, March 21, 2024, 5:28 PM, Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> wrote:
H Mottaleb via plug wrote on Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 02:29:30PM +0000:

> Hello!
> I have a situation started with losing wi-Fi connection
> intermittently afterI installed Nord VPN on my Ubuntu system about a
> month ago.

What kind of install do they have? An OpenVPN config file? A tarfile?
A self-extracting executable?

Martin
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