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prokrastinator

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Registered: 2025-12-18

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[Solved] pCloud AppImage fails to start on GNOME Wayland (silent exit)

Hello,
I hope this is the right corner; I haven't found any solution yet.

Has anyone managed to get the pCloud Drive client to run on Arch with GNOME/Wayland? Whether I use the standalone AppImage or the pcloud-drive package from the AUR, the application fails to open a GUI and exits silently.

System Info:

• OS: Arch Linux (Kernel: 6.12.5-arch1-1)

• DE: GNOME (Wayland session)

• Installation: AUR (pcloud-drive) / Official AppImage / git clone

The Issue:
When launching from the terminal, the process immediately terminates after the initial warning:

$ env QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb /opt/pcloud/pcloud-drive.AppImage --no-sandbox
Warning: Ignoring XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland on Gnome. Use QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland to run on Wayland anyway.
Using TARGET_APPIMAGE /opt/pcloud/pcloud-drive.AppImage
$ 

The application returns to the prompt without any further error messages.

What I have tried so far:

• Dependencies: Installed libxcrypt-compat (to provide libcrypt.so.1), fuse2, nss, and libxtst.

• Environment Variables: Forced XWayland usage via QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb.

• Sandbox Bypass: Used the --no-sandbox flag to account for unprivileged user namespace restrictions.

• AUR Build: Performed a clean build using makepkg -si after cloning the AUR repository.

• Manual Extraction: Extracted the AppImage using --appimage-extract and attempted to run the binary directly from squashfs-root.

• Debugging: Tried strace -e trace=openat,connect, but it yields no output before the exit.

• Extraction: Extracted the AppImage and tried running the binary directly - same silent exit.

• Extensions: Installed gnome-shell-extension-appindicator just in case it was running without a tray icon (it is not

• Desktop/Autostart Files: Modified the .desktop entries to:

  Exec=env QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb /opt/pcloud/pcloud-drive.AppImage --no-sandbox %U

The behavior remains the same. I have also checked ~/.pcloud/pcloud_drive.log but it doesn't provide additional clues as to why the process terminates so early.
Are there any specific pCloud logs besides ~/.pcloud/pcloud_drive.log (which is empty) that I could check?
The fact that it exits silently even after extracting the binary suggests a missing library or a linker issue that doesn't trigger a standard error message.
Is there a known incompatibility with the current GNOME Wayland compositor and the pCloud wrapper, or is there a specific library I might be missing that doesn't trigger a "not found" error in the standard output?

Any help would be appreciated.

Last edited by prokrastinator (Today 13:00:11)

reversed

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Registered: 2026-02-01

Posts: 1

Re: [Solved] pCloud AppImage fails to start on GNOME Wayland (silent exit)

Hello,

I have the exact same problem and I haven't been able to solve it yet. I would appreciate a solution or a hint.

Thanks!

Last edited by reversed (2026-02-01 14:00:22)

MAYBL8

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From: Florida USA

Registered: 2022-01-14

Posts: 366

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Re: [Solved] pCloud AppImage fails to start on GNOME Wayland (silent exit)

I installed the pcloud from the aur and it is working for me with wayland

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TartilupA

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From: EU

Registered: 2026-03-05

Posts: 13

Re: [Solved] pCloud AppImage fails to start on GNOME Wayland (silent exit)

did you already tried this?
https://github.com/pCloud/console-client/

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Tarty

prokrastinator

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Registered: 2025-12-18

Posts: 6

Re: [Solved] pCloud AppImage fails to start on GNOME Wayland (silent exit)

It works now with newest AUR version.
Sometimes you just have to wait

Last edited by prokrastinator (Today 13:00:40)