pCloud run at start-up #708
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davidrhoderick
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You can just run the AppImage directly. It should be in |
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There are multiple questions(?) in this issue, hence I'm replying to another one I saw:
Nope. That's not AppImageLauncher's purpose. You can set that up from your desktop environment. AppImageLauncher does not provide a reliable way to launch AppImages that would survive updates (yet), that would be a separate issue. |
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If pCloud does not properly support autostart, that's pCloud's problem. ownCloud's desktop client for instance had the same issue and needed to support AppImages explicitly. |
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I'll re-post this here since the other issue was a duplicate. EDIT: I later realized that I've re-edited and fixed the I'm able to reproduce this issue also. Running the
strace side effect) OLD output snippets for reference |
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Indeed, running strace with suid binaries can lead to a lot of misleading logging. Similarly, running it on a built AppImage also leads to a lot of problematic output. One workaround for that (which you also show) is to run these tools with |
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After tinkering around with this a bit, it seems that something goes wrong during the AppImage FUSE mount. I've been able to replicate this behavior by trying to mount the pCloud AppImage manually. I also tried copying it into the user's homedir and forcing AppImageLauncher to integrate it first. This copied it into Then, to simulate what a normal Result: The same behavior as if we tried to launch it manually. Nothing gets mounted and it prematurely exits without starting pCloud. Running it under Expand for full
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Have you tried running It looks like this AppImage is using some non-standard (likely non-compliant) runtime, though... |
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On my system I don't have an $ fd 'binfmt-bypass' /usr/lib
/usr/lib/appimagelauncher/libbinfmt-bypass-preload.so
/usr/lib/appimagelauncher/binfmt-bypassHere's the result when running that: $ /usr/lib/appimagelauncher/binfmt-bypass /opt/pcloud/pcloud-drive.AppImage
Using TARGET_APPIMAGE /opt/pcloud/pcloud-drive.AppImage
$ echo $?
0So it looks like the same behavior. It exits prematurely with Trying that under Expand for full
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I'm not sure either way. However, this same I found another tool to help trace what's going on: I also checked for whether FUSE was running as a kernel module or built-in... $ lsmod | grep -i fuse
$ sudo modprobe fuse
$ lsmod | grep -i fuse
$ zgrep -E 'FUSE|CUSE|VIRTIO_FS' /proc/config.gz
CONFIG_FUSE_FS=y
CONFIG_CUSE=m
CONFIG_VIRTIO_FS=y
CONFIG_FUSE_DAX=y
CONFIG_FUSE_PASSTHROUGH=y
CONFIG_FUSE_IO_URING=y
# ^^ FUSE is already compiled into this kernelNext, I created a shell script to capture and filter a trace running the original Expand for
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Describe the bug
Before I used AppImageLauncher, I could set up pCloud to run at start-up using a terminal command. However, since starting to use AppImageLauncher, the CLi provides no help on launching app images:
Nor are there any ways to set up an AppImage to launch on start-up:
Even setting "Start pCloud Drive on system startup" has no effect:
Expected behavior
One of the following should be possible:
ail-cli --helporail-cli --help-all, I should be able to see how to launch an application.To re-iterate, only one of those would be necessary to get this working. I can use "Startup Applications" with
ail-clito run the app the same way I would restart it using AppImageLauncher if it's not possible to configure through the AppImageLauncher GUI or if the pCloud settings can't be persisted.Steps to reproduce the issue
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ail-clihas no manual or help outputNo ways to configure auto-startup in AppImageLauncher
pCloud Drive settings don't take affect
Distribution and desktop environment
Installed AppImageLauncher version
List of AppImages you tried
Version: 0.46.11
VSCode Version: 1.96.2
Commit: ae378be9dc2f5f1a6a1a220c6e25f9f03c8d4e10
Date: 2025-03-07T06:51:09.153Z
Electron: 32.2.6
Chromium: 128.0.6613.186
Node.js: 20.18.1
V8: 12.8.374.38-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 6.12.10-76061203-generic
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