Unable to modify autostart on mac

[TheOneRing]

Launch on login seems to be active on mac independent of the user settings/ disabling has no effect.

[TheOneRing]

The client restarted again and again after a crash.

[erikjv]

Temporary work-around: edit ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.owncloud.desktopclient.plist and change the value for RunAtLoad to false like this:

        <key>RunAtLoad</key>
        <false/>

The client restarted again and again after a crash.

Yes, on purpose. But we can turn this off in the launchd plist file. Currently it's set as:

        <key>KeepAlive</key>
        <dict>
                <key>Crashed</key>
                <true/>
                <key>SuccessfulExit</key>
                <false/>
        </dict>

Launch on login seems to be active on mac independent of the user settings/ disabling has no effect.

[erikjv]

I tried to reproduce this with my own build of master (not installed, but run from QtCreator), and I cannot reproduce this. Which build should I use, or do I need to install it into /Applications?

[TheOneRing]

Temporary work-around: edit ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.owncloud.desktopclient.plist and change the value for RunAtLoad to false like this:

        <key>RunAtLoad</key>
        <false/>

The client restarted again and again after a crash.

Yes, on purpose. But we can turn this off in the launchd plist file. Currently it's set as:

        <key>KeepAlive</key>
        <dict>
                <key>Crashed</key>
                <true/>
                <key>SuccessfulExit</key>
                <false/>
        </dict>

Launch on login seems to be active on mac independent of the user settings/ disabling has no effect.

The issue was a crash on startup and no chance to kill it...

[TheOneRing]

Hmm it was auto starting the client in my dev env. Changes to Had no effect the client was started again after login.

[TheOneRing]

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>KeepAlive</key>
	<dict>
		<key>Crashed</key>
		<true/>
		<key>SuccessfulExit</key>
		<false/>
	</dict>
	<key>Label</key>
	<string>com.owncloud.desktopclient</string>
	<key>Program</key>
	<string>/Users/hannah/ownbuild/master/downloads/git/owncloud/build-owncloud-client-ownBuild-Debug/bin/owncloud.app/Contents/MacOS/owncloud</string>
	<key>RunAtLoad</key>
	<false/>
</dict>
</plist>                                                                    

As it fails to load a lib it will try to restart again and again and again. All the time the checkbox for start at launch isn't even checked.

[erikjv]

Ok, can you see what happens when you set the Crashed value to <false/>?

[TheOneRing]

Then it stopps, but if its in a crashing loop it might overwrite the file before I'm able to change it.

[TheOneRing]

With a fresh install it is also impossible to enable autostart.

[erikjv]

Once that PR is merged, remove ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.owncloud.desktopclient.plist, then it will get re-created at the next start.

[TheOneRing]

Enabling also doesn't work :P

[erikjv]

This was fixed after merging 245047d40b40260c1c7dcbfe8bb48a4a848ab2b1

[HanaGemela]

Test steps:

1. enable autostart, then restart your Mac: Should start automatically

2. disable autostart, then restart your Mac: Should not start automatically

[HanaGemela]

Passed on mac 3.0.0 beta1

[HanaGemela]

we also need to test migration clean mac (VM), install 2.11 update to 3.0 see wheter autostart persisted

Test with the next daily build

[HanaGemela]

Test failed

1. Install 2.11.1, make sure Start on login is checked
2. Update to 3.0.0.9153-daily20221122

Start on login is not checked after the update.