Universal Blue•2w 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•2w 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•2w 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•2w ago

you need to find out why sunshine is dying on you

Rin•2w ago

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

drdoomOP•2w ago

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

HikariKnight•2w ago

Must be though since it is enabled 🤔

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