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borgch

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Registered: 2017-10-10

Posts: 41

Discord not starting

If I run discord from terminal (or select it in menu), nothing appears.

I tried discord --enable-logging, there is no output too.

In system logs I see only "systemd    Started Discord - Internet Messenger."

What can I do to fix it?

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: Discord not starting

there is no output too

Is there a stale process?

ps aux | grep -i disc

What kind of desktop session is this?

Wayland? What compositor? Are you running discord as native wayland client or via xwayland (default)?

How do you start the session? xinit/startx?

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borgch

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Registered: 2017-10-10

Posts: 41

Re: Discord not starting

Is there a stale process?

$ ps aux | grep -i disc
boris       1556  0.4  0.7 1219604 118344 ?      Ssl  00:26   0:00 /usr/lib/DiscoverNotifier --check-delay 20
boris       2217  0.0  0.0   7872  5620 ?        Ss   00:27   0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/discord
boris       2219  0.0  0.0 955728  7360 ?        Sl   00:27   0:00 /usr/share/discord/updater_bootstrap --zenity /home/boris/.config/discord stable https://updates.discord.com/
boris       2253  0.0  0.0   6700  4280 pts/1    S+   00:27   0:00 grep --colour=auto -i disc

Yes, I use Wayland with KDE, unfortunately, I do not now, how the session starts in my case - how to check it?

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: Discord not starting

boris       2217  0.0  0.0   7872  5620 ?        Ss   00:27   0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/discord
boris       2219  0.0  0.0 955728  7360 ?        Sl   00:27   0:00 /usr/share/discord/updater_bootstrap --zenity /home/boris/.config/discord stable https://updates.discord.com/

"Apparently" - what if you kill it?
It seems to try to spawn a zenity dialog? Do you have zenity installed?

Yes, I use Wayland with KDE

Same problem w/ X11? What if you're trying to control discord to use either xwayland or a native wayland client explicitly?

I do not now, how the session starts in my case

Do you use SDDM, plasma-login-manager, startplasma from a  console, …

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