No Such Container: mvpn

[KeiranChristie]

Hi as the subject headline says, git cloned the repo and input my mullvad account number into .env.example and saved it as .env

I Ran setup.sh as sudo and it ends with "Error: no such container: mvpn"

The whole output is here: https://pastebin.com/DpEFyKEM

[Pannekoekjes]

I have the same issue. Found out that this is the error:

/var/lib/dpkg/info/mullvad-vpn.postinst: line 6: systemctl: command not found

Both ubuntu and debian (in docker) seem not to use systemctl. Now trying to make it work.

[ronny332]

I got it working, but moved to GlueTun, works perfect, for a huge amount of services.

[Pannekoekjes]

Found some post on forums about systemctl. Seems it needs dbus in a container

dbus is in the current Dockerfile, i will search further :)

Normally when you run a container you aren’t running an init system. systemctl is a process that communicates with systemd over dbus. If you aren’t running dbus or systemd, I would expect systemctl to fail.

https://forums.docker.com/t/systemctl-status-is-not-working-in-my-docker-container/9075

@ronny332 Thanks, will look into that. Looks great at first start.

Edit: Thanks, got GlueTun working !

[caewok]

@Pannekoekjes How did you get it to work? Do you have a Dockerfile you can share?

[Pannekoekjes]

@caewok I meant that i got GlueTun working. I could not get this proxy to work at the moment. Currently still using GlueTun and it's great.

[au-ganymede]

@Pannekoekjes Is GlueTun able to connect to Mullvad and then tunnel traffic through the SOCKS5 proxy so I can connect via Firefox (the aim is to browse the web in Firefox through Mullvad)? My main goal is to separate VPNs to specific browsers on the system. Unfortunately, I don't know much about Docker or networking at all (I'm a designer), so the GlueTun wiki isn't entirely clear to me.

[Pannekoekjes]

Yes thats possible but not out of the box. You should add this to a docker compose file together with the gluetun example of course. Add the port 1080 to the gluetun service to allow access to socks5

  socks5:
    image: serjs/go-socks5-proxy
    network_mode: "service:gluetun"
    restart: unless-stopped

Example compose:

version: "3"
services:
  gluetun:
    image: qmcgaw/gluetun:v3.38.0
    container_name: gluetun
    restart: unless-stopped
    cap_add:
      - NET_ADMIN
    devices:
      - /dev/net/tun:/dev/net/tun
    ports:
      - 8888:8888/tcp # HTTP proxy
      - 1080:1080     # Socks5 proxy
    volumes:
      - gluetun-data:/gluetun
    environment:
		xxx
      
  socks5:
    image: serjs/go-socks5-proxy
    network_mode: "service:gluetun"
    restart: unless-stopped
  
volumes:
  gluetun-data:
    name: gluetun-data

[tracure1337]

I was able to fix the problem with the following mullvad:Dockerfile

FROM ubuntu:24.04

LABEL maintainer="Bernard Ko"

# Install dependencies and get the Mullvad package without installing it
RUN DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get update && \
    apt-get install -y ca-certificates curl gnupg lsb-release dbus dnsutils dpkg-dev && \
    curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/mullvad-keyring.asc https://repository.mullvad.net/deb/mullvad-keyring.asc && \
    echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/mullvad-keyring.asc arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture)] https://repository.mullvad.net/deb/stable $(lsb_release -cs) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mullvad.list && \
    apt-get update && \
    # Download the deb package but don't install it
    apt-get download mullvad-vpn && \
    # Extract the .deb package without running scripts
    dpkg-deb -R mullvad-vpn*.deb /tmp/mullvad && \
    # Copy the necessary binaries (but not systemd service files)
    cp -r /tmp/mullvad/usr/bin/* /usr/local/bin/ && \
    cp -r /tmp/mullvad/usr/share/mullvad/* /usr/share/mullvad/ 2>/dev/null || true && \
    # Cleanup
    rm -f mullvad-vpn*.deb && \
    rm -rf /tmp/mullvad && \
    apt-get remove -y dpkg-dev && \
    apt-get autoremove -y && \
    apt-get clean && \
    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

# Create necessary directories that the daemon expects
RUN mkdir -p /var/cache/mullvad-vpn /var/lib/mullvad-vpn

VOLUME /conf
ENV MULLVAD_SETTINGS_DIR=/conf

# Use the extracted daemon binary
ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/local/bin/mullvad-daemon"]
CMD ["-v"]

Still gluetun is nicer :-)