FAQ

V2Ray core failed to start

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Some message can only be seen when the loglevel in Kernel Settings is set to info or debug.

1. Prompt Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted.

• Root Cause: Port conflict occurred.

• Cause 1: Previous V2Ray process did not exit normally and occupied the relevant port.

• Solution (on Windows): Kill v2ray.exe or wv2ray.exe process via Task Manager or taskkill /f /im <process name>.

  • Approach 1: Open Task Manager and go to Detail Tab, find v2ray.exe or wv2ray.exe process, right click on the process name, then End Process, End Process. Explain in detail XD

  • Approach 2: Run cmd or powershell and execute the following commands:

taskkill /f /im v2ray.exe
taskkill /f /im wv2ray.exe

Or

Stop-Process -Name "v2ray"; Stop-Process -Name "wv2ray"

• Solution (on Linux): You can even use Linux...Don't you know how to kill a process?

  • Approach 1: Terminate the v2ray process through the System Monitor application. Since there are serveral desktop environments under Linux, the system monitor that comes with each desktop environment may not be the same software, so the operations of killing process should explore by yourself.

  • Approach 2: Install the terminal command software htop and use it to kill the v2ray process.

  • Approach 3:Get the process ID via ps aux | grep v2ray, then kill the process via kill -9 <process ID>.

• Solution (on macOS):

  • Approach 1: Open Activity Monitor, find the v2ray process, and then terminate.

  • Approach 2: Refer to the Approach 2 solution of the Linux.

• Cause 2: The relevant ports set in Qv2ray have been occupied by other software.

• Solution: Change the port settings of Qv2ray or other software.

2. Prompt An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions.

• Cause: If you are using Windows, a patch might set ports between 1000-2000 as privileged / reserved ports.

• Solution: Use a port above than 2000.

3. V2Ray Core Failed to start after enabling TProxy

• Detail: Segmentation Fault occurd after enabling TProxy

• Cause: It's caused by a limit in the SUID feature on some Linux OSes. Detailed error analysis please see: #59 (opens new window)

• Solution: sudo sysctl fs.suid_dumpable=1
  The solution will be lost on reboot, please refer to this blog (opens new window) if you want to keep it.

4. Core error 255

• Cause: V2Ray core doesn't have permission to execute, which happens on POSIX system (Linux, macOS).

• Solution：Run chmod +x v2ray && chmod +x v2ctl in V2Ray core directory, or give them execute permission via file manager,You can double click the programs on macOS, the system will ask you whether to run UNIX program, choose "run" will give them permission.

Fatal Error

1. Cannot execute AppImage: Permission denied

• Cause: You should grant permission before executing it.
• Solution: chmod +x Qv2ray.AppImage

Connection problems

1. Config is confirmed but cannot connect to the remote

• Possible cause: System time is out of sync. If VMess is your proxy protocol, it requires client and server's system time difference less than 90 seconds, or it will refuse to connect.
• Solution (Windows):
  • Approach 1: Open Settings, select “Time & Language”, enable “Automatically set date and time”. If the option is already enabled, please click the "Sync now" button.
  • Approach 2：Open control panel, switch to “Categories” view，choose “Time and Zone”，then click “Date and Time”, select "Internet time" in the open dialog, then click "change settings" button and check “Sync with Internet time server”.
• Solution (Linux):
  • Approach 1: Use systemd-timesyncd, run sudo systemctl enable systemd-timesyncd --now.
  • Approach 2: Use Chrony (opens new window) to sync time.
• Solution (macOS): Open system preference, click “Date & Time”, and enable “Automatically set date and time”.

2. I want to proxy traffic to China Mainland

• Solution

3. Transparent proxy not working when using Linux (Log may suggest the error failed to set IP_TRANSPARENT > operation not permitted)

• Cause: V2Ray does not have the permission to set socket options.

• Solution:

  • For all Linux distros, Use the command below in terminal (with root/sudo access):

    /usr/bin/setcap "cap_net_bind_service=+ep cap_net_admin=+ep" /usr/bin/v2ray
    

    This is most of V2Ray package installed path, but if is not (e.g. install V2Ray by script), you should replace /usr/bin/v2ray with the absolute path of V2Ray core in the previous command.

  • For Arch users:
    You can also install the AUR package aur/v2ray-cap-git (opens new window) created by @DuckSoft to automate this step.

  • For Fedora 32+ / RHEL 8+ users:
    If you are installed V2Ray by dnf / yum, and the V2Ray binary path is /usr/bin/v2ray , you can also install RPM package v2ray-cap (opens new window) packaged by @sixg0000d to automate this step.

4. How to configure proxy for dial-up connections / VPN connections on Windows?

• Already supported on version 2.7.0-pre2.
• However, because of an issue from Microsoft (opens new window) (may also be similar to this reason (opens new window)), if a connection name contains non-ASCII characters, proxy settings won't work. A workaround is to rename the connection and make sure the new name only contains ASCII characters.

5. Unable to configure system proxy automatically on macOS (Error: Command requires admin privileges)

• Cause: Permission issue on macOS.

• Solution:

  $ sudo security authorizationdb write system.services.systemconfiguration.network allow
  YES (0)
  

Performance Issue

1. The response speed of opening web pages / switching connections while using Qv2ray seems to be much slower than using other proxy softwares

• Cause: Qv2ray enables V2Ray Integration by default, which forces all traffics from plugin-introduced protocols (such as SSR, Trojan) to be routed through V2Ray Route in order to implement advanced routing function, but might cause significant latency on low end devices.

• Solution: Go to Core Settings and turn off V2Ray Integration could improve latency for plugin-introduced protocols while lose support of Advanced Routing, Bypass China Mainland, Bypass Local Address and Custom DNS functions as a side effect, which means routing / bypass function of the relevant protocols will be completely invalid, that is, global proxy only. Note that this option does not affect protocols supported by V2Ray kernel (such as VMess). That is, if you only use protocols supported by the V2Ray kernel, switching on and off this function will cause no effect at all.

• Besides, whitelist V2Ray core in antivirus software especially in Microsoft Defender may also improve the response speed. Unverified metaphysics

Behavior & Appearance Issue

1. There is no Qv2ray tray icon & Qv2ray tray icon occasionally disappears in GNOME

• Cause: This is confirmed as an upstream bug.

• Solution: Gnome does not officially support tray icons. The reason tray icons would show on Gnome is that there are some extensions for Gnome from third-party developers or Linux distributions to display it. You may use the following makeshift command as a temporary solution:

nohup gnome-shell --replace &

Or you can also restart Qv2ray and try again.

A tip for Gnome users

The native Gnome desktop will not display the tray icons, and the Qv2ray icon will also not be displayed. If you want to display the tray icons, you can install a Gnome extension called gnome-shell-extension-appindicator (opens new window) (also called ubuntu-appindicator) , After installing the extension you should log out, log in again, and then enable it in the Tweaks app (ie gnome-tweaks), and then you will see the tray icons.

• By the way, KDE Plamsa is awesome.

2. Ubuntu gives a super ugly UI

• Solution: Append --style fusion to the command line argument may solve this problem.

3. Qv2ray UI looks super big on some Windows devices

• Cause: Non-integer scaling is enabled on low-resolution devices, resulting in interface distortion after Qt's secondary scaling.
• Solution: Append --noScaleFactor to the command line argument.

4. macOS wants Qv2ray / Qv2ray Plugins to be "moved to trash"

• Cause: To protect developers' privacy, we don't sign the app with their Apple Developer Account. Also, we haven't had our applications "notarized" by Apple. It's unfair to ask Qv2ray developers, who never use macOS, to pay the money for an Apple Developer Account and risk being caught signing the app, plus wasting their time to wait for the so-called Apple "notarization" (opens new window).
• Solution: Use sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine /Applications/qv2ray.app like command to bypass.

Miscellaneous

1. Why doesn't Qv2ray pack plugins and V2Ray core, or provide download function?

We hope our users can get to know how the program works, and willing to solve potential problems and needs by themselves. If Qv2ray doesn't suit you, you are free to choose other software.

2. Will Qv2ray support mobile platform (Android、iOS)?

There is no plan at the moment. Depending on developers will, there may be mobile platform support when the program migrate to QML.