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#1 2017-12-09 12:13:36

Speranskiy
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From: Moscow
Registered: 2013-11-10
Posts: 52

[SOLVED] Can't find where a process being started on boot.

Hi there!
My issue is very wierd. I had a process (syndaemon) added at startup apps list in XFCE. I've decided to give GNOME a try, switched to it and disabled some autostart applications from gnome-session-properties (can't remember anything regarding syndaemon though).
Now I'm back with XFCE, and i cant find where syndaemon is being spawned on boot.

➜  autostart ps aux|grep syndaemon
speranza   811  0.0  0.0  22344  1288 ?        S    14:58   0:00 syndaemon -i 0.6 -K -R

PPID is 1
I've checked ~/.config/autostart, /etx/xdg/autostart and ~/.zshrc. Actually I've grepped the whole "/home" and "/" directories for "syndaemon" word, nothing's found. But it keeps starting on boot.
For instance

root@speranza# find . -xdev -type f -exec grep -IH "syndaemon -i 0.6 -K -R" {} \;
./.zsh_history:: 1512751210:0;pgrep -R syndaemon -i 0.6 -K -R /
./.zsh_history:: 1512751215:0;grep -R syndaemon -i 0.6 -K -R /

I use autologin with autostart X without a display manager. Using getty + .xinitrc

P.S.: Let me check if it's being started before XFCE or not.
It's being started with XFCE only.

Last edited by Speranskiy (2017-12-10 10:57:15)

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#2 2017-12-09 12:24:29

Speranskiy
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From: Moscow
Registered: 2013-11-10
Posts: 52

Re: [SOLVED] Can't find where a process being started on boot.

➜  autostart git:(master) ✗ pwd
/home/speranza/.config/autostart
➜  autostart git:(master) ✗ ls
'conky calendar.desktop'  'disable touch.desktop'   Telegram-cli.desktop
 Conky.desktop             Nextcloud.desktop
 devilspie2.desktop        pasystray.desktop
➜  autostart git:(master) ✗ grep -R 'syndaemon' .
➜  autostart git:(master) ✗ 

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#3 2017-12-09 12:26:02

Slithery
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Re: [SOLVED] Can't find where a process being started on boot.

Does pstree give any clues?


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#4 2017-12-09 12:26:41

Speranskiy
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From: Moscow
Registered: 2013-11-10
Posts: 52

Re: [SOLVED] Can't find where a process being started on boot.

XFCE session is not being saved and all saved sessions are cleared.

➜  sessions git:(master) ✗ grep  -R "syndaemon" .
➜  sessions git:(master) ✗ pwd                   
/home/speranza/.cache/sessions

I'm lost.

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#5 2017-12-09 12:30:11

Speranskiy
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From: Moscow
Registered: 2013-11-10
Posts: 52

Re: [SOLVED] Can't find where a process being started on boot.

pstree shows syndaemon spawned by systemd.
"journalctl -b| grep syndaemon" returns nothing.

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#6 2017-12-10 10:56:56

Speranskiy
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From: Moscow
Registered: 2013-11-10
Posts: 52

Re: [SOLVED] Can't find where a process being started on boot.

Enabling "Disable touchpad while typing" in the Mouse and Touchpad settings is what starts syndaemon.

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