Private internet access app not launching

[themagicm]

[Deb 9 x86 64-bit]

I'm installing the Private Internet access app, v75 under Deb 9 but when I go to run it, the app exits and does not run.

strace on run.sh shows the following towards the end:

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-- SIGCHLD {si_signo=SIGCHLD, si_code=CLD_EXITED, si_pid=15382, si_uid=1000, si_status=0, si_utime=3, si_stime=3} ---
rt_sigreturn({mask=[]})                 = 15382
clone(child_stack=NULL, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0x7fa03de659d0) = 15383
wait4(-1, pia_nw: no process found
kill: (15365): No such process
[{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0, NULL) = 15383
--- SIGCHLD {si_signo=SIGCHLD, si_code=CLD_EXITED, si_pid=15383, si_uid=1000, si_status=0, si_utime=12, si_stime=4} ---
rt_sigreturn({mask=[]})                 = 15383
read(10, "", 8192)                      = 0
exit_group(0)                           = ?
+++ exited with 0 +++

Thats a vanilla install of Deb 9. Whats interesting is that I have this running under Deb 9 but that version is an upgraded version from Deb 8.

Anyone got this thing to run? I know I can use OpenVPN but the app has features that openvpn does not.

[Bulkley]

As an aside, I thought I'd do a little searching for you so I found the Private Internet access app, v75 site. It gives an IP and ISP for me and says that I'm not protected. They have exit info from my VPN.


Unfortunately I ran into this PIA forum thread.

Unfortunately at this time our systems does not support your operating system, what I would suggest is that you install Openvpn. Here is a article from our support center.

That was a post from July. There is a link at the bottom from someone who got it running on Ubuntu. I suggest you follow the link and others on there. You have lots of company with this problem. My bet is someone has it fixed by now.

[themagicm]

Yes I found the same unhelpful information you posted and I also regurgitated the same. "use openvpn" which doesnt have features like I stated in the original post.

I'm already using OpenVPN on my pfSense box but I'd rather have a 'VPN kill switch' and some other small features it provides in the app. Maybe one day it will work... lol

[themagicm]

man..digging this one up from the grave. LOL

I've moved on from PIA and use Mullvad since PIA was acquired by a company with less than stellar privacy record.

[wizard10000]

I've been reasonably happy with expressvpn, which even has a .deb package

Support is a little spotty as when I did open a ticket with them every time I got a response it was from a different person and I ended up fixing the thing myself but the VPN works pretty well - at $13 a month it's not the cheapest but even during peak hours I'm getting about 75% of my available bandwidth and that ain't bad