After an OS update Fedora 35 deletes /run/nordvpn/nordvpnd.sock. This did not occur with Fedora 34.The error message: it cannot find nordvpnd.sock. That folder is empty and the vpn will not start.
This is corrected by running: sudo systemctl restart nordvpnd, the VPN works until the next OS update, then it is necessary to repeat the restart command.
I received a response from Nordvpn but it was unhelpful.
For me it’s not a burning issue, it’s just a matter of entering an additional command to get Nordvpn working. I thought the responsible thing to do was to alert the interested parties then see what they make of it.
To find out if it is a general Fedora-Linux issue or an issue with the Gnome-App you should try dnf too. Next time when you see the update info, open a terminal and type
sudo dnf up then it displays a list what it wants to update. Copy and paste it, that we can see what is going on. Even more important is that you check if the nordvpn problem occurs.
I usually don’t, I usually wait for prompts from the Software Repository and let it handle updates, as per the image I posted. I did have another problem once that I did not report- with Fedora 34 - where the Software Repository would not update, it gave me a long complicated error message that I could not figure out despite a web search. I fixed that problem with sudo dnf update. That issue became moot and has not recurred with the switch to Fedora 35.
[ra@fedora-main-drive ~]$ sudo dnf up
[sudo] password for ra:
Repository vivaldi is listed more than once in the configuration
Last metadata expiration check: 1:56:02 ago on Sun 28 Nov 2021 12:00:28 PM.
Dependencies resolved.
Package Arch Version Repository Size
Installing:
kernel x86_64 5.15.4-201.fc35 updates 14 k
kernel-core x86_64 5.15.4-201.fc35 updates 35 M
kernel-modules x86_64 5.15.4-201.fc35 updates 32 M
kernel-modules-extra x86_64 5.15.4-201.fc35 updates 2.0 M
Upgrading:
fedora-release-common noarch 35-36 updates 21 k
fedora-release-identity-workstation
noarch 35-36 updates 14 k
fedora-release-workstation
noarch 35-36 updates 12 k
gstreamer1-libav x86_64 1:1.19.3-1.fc35 rpmfusion-free-updates 210 k
gstreamer1-plugins-bad-freeworld
x86_64 1:1.19.3-1.fc35 rpmfusion-free-updates 208 k
gstreamer1-plugins-ugly x86_64 1:1.19.3-1.fc35 rpmfusion-free-updates 191 k
kernel-headers x86_64 5.15.4-200.fc35 updates 1.3 M
rav1e-libs x86_64 0.5.0-1.fc35 updates 875 k
Removing:
kernel x86_64 5.14.16-301.fc35 @updates 0
kernel-core x86_64 5.14.16-301.fc35 @updates 76 M
kernel-modules x86_64 5.14.16-301.fc35 @updates 31 M
kernel-modules-extra x86_64 5.14.16-301.fc35 @updates 2.0 M
Hi @rallan Repositories are in /etc/yum.repos.d
If two vivaldi repository files exist, remove one. (as Root) cd /etc/yum.repos.d ls (this will show content of yum.repos.d) sudo rm [name of repo file]
This will ask for your password
I went ahead with the updates and there was no problem this time. Nordvpn behaves as it is supposed to.
Possible reasons:
Nordvpn corrected the problem over the weekend.
these very updates corrected the problem
these updates do not induce the problem
I will keep a close eye on updates that require a restart, and collect the sudo dnf up information prior to executing the update, so that if it does recur I have some useful data to give you.