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I fixed my issue by following https://github.com/ProtonVPN/linux-cli/issues/57#issuecomment-994694954https://github.com/ProtonVPN/linux-cli/issues/57#issuecomment-994694954

yay -Rs protonvpn
rm -rf ~/.cache/protonvpn

And then reinstalling protonvpn using pamac (Manjaro user here).

Unable to build AUR package

python-proton-client checksum doesn't match

Building python-proton-client...
==> Making package: python-proton-client 0.7.1-1 (Wed 05 Jan 2022 04:49:25 PM EST)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Found 0.7.1.tar.gz
==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    0.7.1.tar.gz ... FAILED
==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!
Failed to build python-proton-client

I am able to build but I get the following error when running it:

▶ protonvpn 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/protonvpn", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('protonvpn-gui==1.7.0', 'console_scripts', 'protonvpn')())
  File "/usr/bin/protonvpn", line 25, in importlib_load_entry_point
    return next(matches).load()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 162, in load
    module = import_module(match.group('module'))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1050, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1027, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1006, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 688, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 883, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 241, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/protonvpn_gui/main.py", line 14, in <module>
    from proton.constants import VERSION as proton_version
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'proton'

Journey log no. 2: I have uninstalled protonvpn-gui via pip. I still cannot run protonvpn via the activities menu. Nor will it start up from the Gnome Tweaks startup setup. So, my most interested and perplexed followers, I attempted to start protonvpn from the command line and, voila, it starts. This is clearly progress, but not an ideal solution. Perhaps this output in the command line activation of protonvpn may give some intrepid journeyer the clue they need:

/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/protonvpn_nm_lib/core/connection_backend/nm_client/nm_client_mixin.py:11: Warning: g_main_context_push_thread_default: assertion 'acquired_context' failed
  nm_client = NM.Client.new(None)
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/protonvpn_nm_lib/core/connection_backend/nm_client/nm_client_mixin.py:11: Warning: g_main_context_pop_thread_default: assertion 'g_queue_peek_head (stack) == context' failed
  nm_client = NM.Client.new(None)

I wish you all luck in your adventures. If any of you kind sentinels are able to envisage some steps to take for a solution, please do let me and, indeed, everyone else know.

Hello weary travellers. Coming in to report. I have tried the solutions posted by:

@shuriken:

pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.9 | paru -S - --rebuild twice and pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.9 to verify

@zeroconf:

yay -S $(pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.9) --answerclean All and/or yay --cleanmenu --rebuild -Syu protonvpn

and @niva:

reinstall

I am still stuck with the same error message in running protonvpn:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/protonvpn", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('protonvpn-gui==1.7.0', 'console_scripts', 'protonvpn')())
  File "/usr/bin/protonvpn", line 25, in importlib_load_entry_point
    return next(matches).load()
StopIteration

Doth anyone have any suggestions as to this error and how to solve the conundrum of starting the protonvpn application?

Simply uninstall and reinstall protonvpn seems to solve all issue. See https://github.com/ProtonVPN/linux-cli/issues/57#issuecomment-994694954https://github.com/ProtonVPN/linux-cli/issues/57#issuecomment-994694954

Still a lot of errors:

File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/protonvpn_gui/main.py", line 14, in <module>
    from proton.constants import VERSION as proton_version
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'proton.constants'

It's still being buggy where sometimes it connects as usual, sometimes it stalls when trying to connect, one time reconnector.py was not terminated upon disconnection leading to the inability to connect, so still buggy after python upgrade.

Please see this comment at protonvpn-cli. You need to explicitly update protonvpn-cli only and then other packages, including rest of protonvpn ones, as usual. It is not normal, but at least worked. Let's hope, that Proton Software AG will fix this in near future. It is worth to write also ProtonVPN customer support about that.