If you're using the import wizard, you don't need private cert/key, they're in the ovpn files
If you're using the built in support then you need to supply the cert/key. You can do this by pointing at an ovpn file with them in, or the files themselves as described in the wiki.
I did notice that you appeared to try a mixture of both previously. I'd stick with built in support.
Assuming they've not changed their method of certification, or certificates (and nobody else is moaning that they have yet), then I'd guess the issue is that you've supplied a bad user key or cert which is unique to you. Clear the keys out and try supplying one of the .ovpn files you can download from their site. And yeah, check the userid and password - if you're using an Android Kodi remote app, they've been known to screw with text entry.
You should go and read what resolv.conf is used for and determine if you need it on your system with your VPN provider. If you do, use the up and/or down scripts, which are documented in the github wiki. If you don't just remove the lines from the ovpn files and use the import wizard.
bubblegum's advice has been spot on. If you can't fix the errors with ProtonVPN, then you'll need to get support from them, or use one of the other supported providers which will probably be easier for you.
Looks like it's working at designing. Something is screwing up the connection and it's reconnecting when it notices. This tiny extract of your log is just showing that your dodgy streaming add-on is causing problems. I'm not going to be debugging that for you.
I use PIA, it works fine. You might wanna check the install page to see what OSMC needs, but this looks like there's a network problem.
The log is showing that you can't connect to two of the three providers used to determine the external IP address. It also appears to have other messages in the log that suggest you've got some network issues that are preventing external connection, ie:
21:00:11.850 T:1516237568 ERROR: CCurlFile::Exists - Failed: Timeout was reached(28) for ncsi.txt
21:00:17.378 T:1516237568 ERROR: CCurlFile::Exists - Failed: Timeout was reached(28) for World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
You should look at your network and firewall settings and see if you can connect outside of the Kodi environment.
i suspect you're trying to restart as the kodi instance is stopping. I see the same behaviour if I kill kodi and quickly restart it.
Maybe fork a script that waits for the kodi process to finish and then restarts it?
laowhy Can't you prevent all traffic flowing through wlan0? - google "vpn kill switch" or similar, some people have been able to get this to work so that no traffic flows if the VPN goes down. You should also look at what your VPN provider is pushing when the connection happens - it may be that they're supplying a DNS to use which is somehow conflicting. Either way, you're probably gonna have better luck in an openvpn forum
running up and down scripts is supported - this is documented on the GitHub wiki. You can put what you need in them. They'll need to be in the addon directory structure somewhere tho, not in /etc/openvpn
tomtomclub, the solution for trespasser was at the top of the page. Or you can read the installation page on the wiki linked from the first post.
cle static IP is something your vpn provider provides you. Or you can run your own server and use a dynamic dns service. Either way this is not the addon that will help you
That's interesting, thanks for posting. I'll be sure to cry myself to sleep.
I've seen the notification a bit slow to pop up on the mimic skin on a cycle, but on a change it's largely governed by how long it takes to stop things.
The kill process will try and do a kill sigterm and if after 10 seconds (I think) it does a kill sigkill. You should be able to turn on debug and see what's taking the time.
There might be an option in settings in the debug tab to always use -9, can't remember whether I surfaced that or not.
I don't use OSMC so no idea about why there would be different behaviours.
No, set it up so that the VPN you want to use is the first connection and check that you're using connect and boot and the option to reconnect.
Filtering is just if you want to use different (or no) VPNs by addon
You can set the verb by going to Settings/Debug, there's an option in the openvpn section. You then need to reset the provider files and reconnect.
However, I've checked out their latest configs, and nothing has changed. If you want to progress support with them then you should use openvpn directly from the command line and skip the add-on. If you switch on debug, (also in Settings/Debug), you should see the command appear in the log. It'll be something like 'openvpn /storage/.kodi/addons/IPVanish/something.ovpn'. Type this into an ssh session (google it if you don't know how) and see if it stays connected. If not, ask their support what the issue is.
You need to add the disk with the ovpn files as a source in the file manager...this is standard kodi operation and you can find out more for your platform/skin by googling it if you need more help
There's nothing in the log to suggest why it's disconnecting. You could up the tracing by altering the verb setting to 4 or 5 in settings/debug. I'd guess it was a server side problem though given the other comments and the fact that the settings work on other servers ok
