I had the same issue as many people here over the past few days, where the PIA VPN failed to start up in a timely manner. I found a fix posted by zaraki here on this github issues page: https://github.com/binhex/arch-qbittorrentvpn/issues/378 After editing it into the tools shell script of the binhex-qbittorrentvpn container everything is back to normal with smooth and quick connection of the vpn again.