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0008916Kali LinuxGeneral Bugpublic2024-09-18 01:43
Reportererasmo52 Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityhave not tried
Status newResolutionopen 
Summary0008916: Proton VPN stopped running
Description

running Kali with KDE gui
python3 version: 3.11.9
Until the last 10 September all was working fine-
After the upgrade of Kali of the last 10 September the protonvpn-app stopped to run.
Waited some days to see if some others upgrade would fix the problem and tried to uninstall and reinstall the proton-vpn-gnome-desktop application but also without result.
Then now it is always impossible to run the protonvpn-app
I attach the image file with the output of the konsole command protonvpn-app
Waiting for your instructions, I thank you for your nice job.
wishing you the best
Eros

Attached Files
Kali protonvpn_app Error.jpg (173,911 bytes)   
Kali protonvpn_app Error.jpg (173,911 bytes)   

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kali-bugreport

kali-bugreport

2024-09-17 09:36

reporter   ~0019780

Is this really a package / tool shipped with Kali?

jojonas

jojonas

2024-09-17 10:36

reporter   ~0019781

Last edited: 2024-09-17 10:40

I did some analysis on the bug, here are my results:

This issue is related to the package "python3-jaraco.context" which is used by the Python module "keyring". In version 6.0.0-1 the package is missing a module called "backports.tarfile" (https://github.com/jaraco/backports.tarfile/) which is used only with Python versions before 3.12.

See related bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1080355

Apparently the package version 6.0.0-1 was pulled from Debian testing where they are already using Python 3.12, and thus the bug does not occur. That's also the reason the Debian package maintainer refuses to fix the backports issue.

The bug will disappear when Kali shipps Python version 3.12, in the mean time it might be possible to package the backports.tarfile module.

kali-bugreport

kali-bugreport

2024-09-17 17:29

reporter   ~0019788

https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2024-3-release/ says that Python 3.12 will be the default in Kali 2024.4 so this probably will solve itself by then.

arnaudr

arnaudr

2024-09-18 01:43

manager   ~0019793

Python 3.12 just landed in kali-rolling. If you update your system (apt update && apt full-upgrade), then maybe it's fixed?

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2024-09-16 10:32 erasmo52 New Issue
2024-09-16 10:32 erasmo52 File Added: Kali protonvpn_app Error.jpg
2024-09-17 09:36 kali-bugreport Note Added: 0019780
2024-09-17 10:36 jojonas Note Added: 0019781
2024-09-17 10:40 jojonas Note Edited: 0019781
2024-09-17 17:29 kali-bugreport Note Added: 0019788
2024-09-18 01:43 arnaudr Note Added: 0019793