This document contains some useful debug information.
If you're having troubles with old versions of RiseupVPN that did not have an uninstaller, and the new installer is not cleanly replacing the previous install, you might need to manually clean things up. You will need root access to stop the privileged helper.
First, see if the helper is running:
pgrep bitmask-helper
To stop it:
sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/se.leap.bitmask-helper.plist
To start it:
sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/se.leap.bitmask-helper.plist
sudo launchctl start /Library/LaunchDaemons/se.leap.bitmask-helper.plist
Check that it's running:
pgrep bitmask-helper
Manually check that the web api is running, and that it reports a version that matches what you currently have installed:
curl http://localhost:7171/version
Also, you can check that the path near the end of the file /Library/LaunchDaemons/se.leap.bitmask-helper.plist matches the current path where you installed RiseupVPN.app.
If you have things messed up and you want to completely delete the bitmask-helper:
sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/se.leap.bitmask-helper.plist
sudo rm -rf /Library/LaunchDaemons/se.leap.bitmask-helper.plist
Make sure that "pgrep bitmask-helper" does not return any pid.
Now you can move /Applications/RiseupVPN.app to the Trash, and launch a recent installer to get a clean install.
In the unfortunate event that a crash lets you with a non-usable connection, you can restore the firewall by hand:
# if you see drop ... <bitmask_gateways>, the fw is on
sudo pfctl -a com.apple/250.BitmaskFirewall -sr
# clean it up!
sudo pfctl -a com.apple/250.BitmaskFirewall -F all
In Windows you can use PowerShell to see if there's an old service Running (it can be from RiseupVPN, CalyxVPN, LibraryVPN etc...).
PS C:\Users\admin> Get-Service bitmask-helper-v2
You can also stop it (needs admin)
PS C:\Users\admin> Stop-Service bitmask-helper-v2
To force logging:
QT_FORCE_STDERR_LOGGING=1 ./riseup-vpn.exe
You can specify a custom openvpn_configuration block from a local file (instead of fetching it from eip-service.json) via an environment variable:
LEAP_OPENVPN_EXTRA_CONFIG=../extra-config.json ./riseup-vpn
In the same spirit, you can manually override the gateway selection via an environment variable that contains the hostname of the gateway:
LEAP_GW=hostname.riseup.net ./riseup.vpn
To avoid setting up the routes, you can pass the LEAP_DRYRUN variable:
LEAP_DRYRUN=1 ./riseup.vpn
We should probably restrict this to non-release versions only.