[maverick] sync daemon gets started by default

[Martin Pitt]

Binary package hint: ubuntuone-client

I just installed today's netbook daily, and sync daemon gets started by default. This ruins startup performance and isn't necessary unless U1 is actually configured to work (gets LP credentials, etc.).

Right now, /etc/xdg/autostart/ubuntuone-launch.desktop checks for ~/Ubuntu One, but something (I guess the nautilus extension?) keeps (re)creating this dir. This means that it's impossible to disable, too.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: ubuntuone-client 1.4.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-20.29-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-20-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Sep 13 14:59:21 2010
DistributionChannelDescriptor: canonical-pitti-test
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha amd64 (20100803.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntuone-client
UbuntuOneSyncdaemonExceptionsLog:

UbuntuOneUserSyncdaemonConfig:
 [bandwidth_throttling]
 read_limit = 2097152
 write_limit = 2097152
 on = False

[dobey (dobey)]

The correct way to disable file sync in U1 is to do so in the ubuntuone-preferences dialog. Disabling the autostart of any app in the session startup properties dialog has no merit on whether or not the app listed there will actually start or not at some other point in the session. It merely means that the executable specified in the autostart file will not be run by the session manager. Any DBus service for example, will probably be run as soon as anything which uses that service, requests a connection to it. This is the case for Ubuntu One as well as many other services also listed there.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

For the record, even removing the autostart .desktop file will still cause sync daemon to be run. Does it get dbus activated as well?