Universal Blue•5mo ago

Sunshine Autostart not persisting between reboots

Hello, I'm trying to get sunshine to automatically start on reboot via the ujust setup-sunshine script. I'm pretty sure the autostart functionality is broken. After reboot the user service disappears and sunshine does not restart. Anyone know why systemd might not see the sunshine.service user service after reboot? The symlink is here: /home/bazzite/.config/systemd/user/xdg-desktop-autostart.target.wants/sunshine.service

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drdoomOP•5mo ago

Well, the service is missing when I systemctl --user list-units. However it does exit when I do systemctl status sunshine but it's inactive:

bazzite@bazzite:~$ systemctl status --user sunshine
○ sunshine.service - Self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/sunshine.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
    Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/user/service.d
             └─10-timeout-abort.conf
     Active: inactive (dead)

bazzite@bazzite:~$ systemctl status --user sunshine
○ sunshine.service - Self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/sunshine.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
    Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/user/service.d
             └─10-timeout-abort.conf
     Active: inactive (dead)

Maybe it's something to do with the xdg-desktop-autostart.target not starting the service... I made a custom user service and changed WantedBy to graphical-session.target Seems to start fine now. Read-only service that's not starting after reboot:

[Unit]
Description=Self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight
StartLimitIntervalSec=500
StartLimitBurst=5

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/sunshine
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5s

[Install]
WantedBy=xdg-desktop-autostart.target

[Unit]
Description=Self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight
StartLimitIntervalSec=500
StartLimitBurst=5

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/sunshine
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5s

[Install]
WantedBy=xdg-desktop-autostart.target

New user service that restarts properly:

[Unit]
Description=Self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight
StartLimitIntervalSec=500
StartLimitBurst=5

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/sunshine
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5s

[Install]
WantedBy=graphical-session.target

[Unit]
Description=Self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight
StartLimitIntervalSec=500
StartLimitBurst=5

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/sunshine
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5s

[Install]
WantedBy=graphical-session.target

Could gnome not be triggering the autostart target properly?

wolfyreload•5mo ago

Try run ujust setup-sunshine again after rebooting. Then select the option "toggle autostart" Nevermind, looks like you came right on your own. Saw the first message and didn't see your replies afterwards 🫢

HikariKnight•5mo ago

you need to find out why sunshine is dying on you

Rin•5mo ago

I had to add Sunshine to autostart in Tweaks The service just didn't run for me

drdoomOP•5mo ago

@HikariKnight It's wasn't dying, there we no service logs. I think it was not even getting started.

HikariKnight•5mo ago

Must be though since it is enabled 🤔

Freddy•2mo ago

I'm running into this where my sunshine doesn't persist between boots as well, on the image below

Rin•2mo ago

Open Ignition app and add Sunshine to autostart

Freddy•2mo ago

Thanks, I've done this but have to start the service manually still too

Rin•2mo ago

Oh weird

Freddy•2mo ago

I have to run this for it to actually start, as well. Clicking sunshine doesn't immediately open it, but restarting the service then it does

/usr/bin/env systemctl enable --u sunshine
/usr/bin/env systemctl stop --u sunshine
/usr/bin/env systemctl start --u sunshine
sunshine

/usr/bin/env systemctl enable --u sunshine
/usr/bin/env systemctl stop --u sunshine
/usr/bin/env systemctl start --u sunshine
sunshine

very weird, sunshine/moonlight used to work like it was supposed to on GNOME image for me and I have a friend on a ROG Ally doing the same I'm trying to get it working like it's supposed to for both of us. his is on a fresh gnome-deck-image

Rin•2mo ago

Mine was starting well last time I checked, but I'm using a desktop image instead of deck

Freddy•2mo ago

Thanks for your input, I found another user who created an issue here with similar situation, also on gnome image https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/issues/2044

GitHub

Sunshine service failing to autostart on Bazzite gnome desktop imag...

Describe the bug It looks like there is a problem with sunshine failing to autostart on the desktop images of Bazzite. tested on bazzite-gnome-nvidia:testing-41.20250101 and bazzite-gnome:testing-4...

Freddy•2mo ago

just found that this actually works like this, just in the background and does not show up as an entry with an icon on the top right task bar(didn't know that) thanks

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