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If you want to use old pulse-secure client 9.1r9, please download the following package.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_8tRA-T9vV08n_TpHqdcG5IvalxBuZ7_/view?usp=sharing

The rewritten pulse-secure client requires a service called 'pulsesecure'. Please enable and start the service before running the client.

I have a problem on the latest (9.1r15.0_b15819-2) and older versions : I start the pulsesecure service, and try to run the /opt/pulsesecure/bin/pulseUI command, and it's stuck at

dsOpenSSL Start - dsENGINE_register_ECDSA
dsOpenSSL End - dsENGINE_register_ECDSA

and it hangs there. If I try to press Ctrl + C to cancel it, the UI launches, but it looks like it doesn't detect the running service (lots of DBUS api call failed with code: 2 - message:GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name net.psecure.pulse was not provided by any .service files error messages, and I can't connect.

What's weird is that if I stop the service and try to run the pulseUI program, it goes straight to the "missing service" error :

dsOpenSSL Start - dsENGINE_register_ECDSA
dsOpenSSL End - dsENGINE_register_ECDSA
DBUS api call failed with code: 2 - message:GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name net.psecure.pulse was not provided by any .service files 
DBUS api call failed with code: 2 - message:GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name net.psecure.pulse was not provided by any .service files 

journalctl -u pulsesecure.service -f doesn't show anything wrong, and the pulselauncher command behaves the same...

Any idea ?

It doesn't save my connections. Every time I restart it I have to create my connections again. Is there anything that I am missing?

Thanks, it works now.

@mso I've updated the package to ignore SSL certificate validation. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Note that skipping SSL validation is insecure. If you don't want skip the validation, remove the second line of PKGBUILD file.

DLAGENTS=("https::/usr/bin/curl -k -o %o %u")

Under Manjaro cannot update to 9.1r15 since curl complains about invalid SSL ceritificate when donwloading the following file: https://webdev.web3.technion.ac.il/docs/cis/public/ssl-vpn/v.9.1R15.0/ps-pulse-linux-9.1r15.0-b15819-64bit-installer.rpm

Error output: curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate

Does this work for you?

Note in case it may help someone: I managed to skip the error by manually downloading the rpm file to my local file system and editing the build file pointing the download destination to my local file: source_x86_64=("file://<MY_LOCAL_PATH>") (Replace <MY_LOCAL_PATH> with the path you downloaded the file to)

There is also another problem since last few updates. In case the connection gets stuck or is cancelled, the /etc/resolv.conf is not reset to previous contents.

In my specific case this makes pulse-secure unable to re-connect because the VPN-provided DNS servers cannot resolve the connection endpoint. This could be fixed on my VPN, but the resolv.conf should be reset to previous contents anyway.

The new version 9.1r14.0-b13525 does not work for me. When trying to connect it says, that the embedded chromium is not installed. Then it downloads and extracts the browser, but cannot use it afterwards. No error is logged.

Noticed a new release today but there is a later release actually (which was released in January):

https://webdev.web3.technion.ac.il/docs/cis/public/ssl-vpn/v.9.1R14.0/ps-pulse-linux-9.1r14.0-b13525-64bit-installer.rpm

I have tried version r12, r13, and r14 and all fail for me on an up-to-date system. I can see these errors on the logs:

failed with error /opt/pulsesecure//lib/iveConnectionMethod/samAccessMethod.so: cannot open shared object file
'ConnectionManager' failed to start connection method integrationAccessMethod, error 1000
'AccessServiceProxy' createInstance of plugin integrationAccessMethod failed with error 0xe00103e8

Any ideas?

New URL to use for the binary:

https://gml.noaa.gov/aftp/user/cornwall/Pulse%20Client/old/ps-pulse-linux-9.1r12.0-b10247-64-bit-installer.rpm