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tkwilson

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Registered: 2019-09-01

Posts: 9

NordVPN - Cannot login - ptr timer is locked

Hi all, when trying to login to nordvpn, I get the following:

$nordvpn login
rotating: transport rotator: ptr timer is locked

I'm not having much luck figuring out what this means or how to remedy it.  It was working a couple of weeks ago, but I have not been using it a lot as yet.  Looking in the journal, I found this:

nordvpnd[572]: 2022/08/22 22:05:33 oauth2 login url https://mad4todo.com/v1/users/oauth/login?challenge=fef2f58202b87f9dda449b56d9237b038a51de52715b6d98df5d691192e8c07e&preferred_flow=login&redirect_flow=default

nordvpnd[572]: 2022/08/22 22:05:33 Post "https://mad4todo.com/v1/users/oauth/login?challenge=fef2f58202b87f9dda449b56d9237b038a51de52715b6d98df5d691192e8c07e&preferred_flow=login&redirect_flow=default": dial tcp: address 2606:4700:3037::6815:3484:443: too many colons in address

This appears immediately after the login attempt.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

luich91

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Registered: 2021-10-12

Posts: 42

Re: NordVPN - Cannot login - ptr timer is locked

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NordVPN

There is a note then "Login" section: ... from April 2022 etc..
Anyway, have you tried updating the package or reinstalling it?

tkwilson

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Registered: 2019-09-01

Posts: 9

Re: NordVPN - Cannot login - ptr timer is locked

Yes, I have reinstalled the package.

amatika

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Registered: 2016-03-17

Posts: 59

Re: NordVPN - Cannot login - ptr timer is locked

Had the same problem and after chatting with Nordvpn support managed to work around this.

Try disabling IPv6. Worked for me.

Add

net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1 
net.ipv6.conf.your-network-interface-name-here.disable_ipv6 = 1

into
/etc/sysctl.d/40-disable-ipv6.conf

Then

# systemctl restart systemd-sysctl.service
# systemctl status systemd-sysctl.service 
$ nordvpn login