[Pkg-owncloud-maintainers] Bug#1095002: nextcloud-desktop: Nextcloud starts twice (with two tray-icons)

[Olivier Berger]

Hi.

I thought the problem was fixed, as I had no longer 2 files for aut-starting nextcloud:
$ ack -i nextcloud ~/.config/autostart/
/home/olivier/.config/autostart/Nextcloud.desktop
2:Name=Nextcloud
4:Exec="/usr/bin/nextcloud" --background
6:Icon=Nextcloud

But suddenyly this morning after restarting and logging in again, I get 2 instances of nextcloud running again.

$ ps aux | grep -i nextcloud
olivier     3516  0.1  1.3 2574532 215448 ?      SLl  10:56   0:01 /usr/bin/nextcloud --background
olivier     3874  0.1  1.3 2574488 215876 ?      SLl  10:56   0:01 /usr/bin/nextcloud --background
olivier     6801  0.0  0.0   6624  2480 pts/1    S+   11:16   0:00 grep -i nextcloud

Here's the relevant pieces of pstree for the 2 nextcloud process
systemd-+
        |-systemd-+-(sd-pam)
        |         |-gnome-session-b-
        |         |                 |-nextcloud---16*[{nextcloud}]
        |         |                 `-4*[{gnome-session-b}]
        |         |-nextcloud---16*[{nextcloud}]

So, I'm puzzled. There's another instance of something that starts it, but not related to my /home/olivier/.config/autostart/Nextcloud.desktop apparently.

I dunno what would be special about that gnome session (stable).

Hope this helps,

Le Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 11:03:05AM +0200, Olivier Berger a écrit :
> Le Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 09:30:24AM +0100, Ralf Jung a écrit :
> > 
> > I found the upstream bug for this, referenced above. Deleting the
> > `com.nextcloud.desktopclient.nextcloud.desktop` file in the `autostart`
> > folder seems to help, though it may well be that nextcloud will re-create
> > that file at some point...
> > 
> 
> Thanks for these details.
> 
> I checked stopping Nextcloud desktop, removed both files in ~/.config/autostart/, then started Nextcloud 
> and then I used the checkbox in the parameters to disable autostart, and reenabling the parameter, checking that only the ~/.config/autostart/Nextcloud.desktop is deleted / re-generated.
> 
> So it seems that stopping all instances and removing ~/.config/autostart/com.nextcloud.desktopclient.nextcloud.desktop is probably the best workaround, Debian-wise.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> -- 
> Olivier BERGER 
> (OpenPGP: 4096R/7C5BB6A5)
> http://www.olivierberger.com/weblog/

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Olivier BERGER 
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