pCloud GUI Fails to Launch in KDE Plasma

[ddnn]

I’m really not sure why, but after downloading the “pcloud-drive” package from AUR, things were working as expected for a day or two.

However, now when I launch it, it launches in the background, with no GUI nor tray icon. I actually didn’t notice this until I temporarily lost my Wi-Fi connection and received a notification from pCloud that there was no internet connection. Shortly after, the icon showed up.

Been dealing with this for a few days now. I’m having to disable my Wi-Fi before launching pcloud, then reenable it just to get the GUI, but the GUI says everything uploaded/downloaded, which as you can see in KSysguard, is not the case.

Does anyone know why this is happening or what I can do to fix it?

[User@Device ~]$ neofetch
                     ./o.                  User@Device 
                   ./sssso-                ---------------- 
                 `:osssssss+-              OS: EndeavourOS Linux x86_64 
               `:+sssssssssso/.            Host: 20HKCTO1WW ThinkPad P71 
             `-/ossssssssssssso/.          Kernel: 5.17.1-arch1-1 
           `-/+sssssssssssssssso+:`        Uptime: 2 hours, 7 mins 
         `-:/+sssssssssssssssssso+/.       Packages: 1464 (pacman) 
       `.://osssssssssssssssssssso++-      Shell: bash 5.1.16 
      .://+ssssssssssssssssssssssso++:     Resolution: 1920x1080 
    .:///ossssssssssssssssssssssssso++:    DE: Plasma 5.24.4 
  `:////ssssssssssssssssssssssssssso+++.   WM: KWin 
`-////+ssssssssssssssssssssssssssso++++-   Theme: [Plasma], Qogir-dark [GTK2/3] 
 `..-+oosssssssssssssssssssssssso+++++/`   Icons: [Plasma], breeze-dark [GTK2/3] 
   ./++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++/:.     Terminal: konsole 
  `:::::::::::::::::::::::::------``       Terminal Font: Liberation Mono 8 
                                           CPU: Intel i7-7700HQ (8) @ 3.800GHz 
                                           GPU: NVIDIA Quadro P3000 Mobile 
                                           Memory: 3877MiB / 15800MiB

Update: I decided to download the app directly from pCloud. At first, it still recognized my device as the same, so it still didn’t launch the GUI. So, I deleted the “.pcloud” folder in the Home directory as well as the “home/.config/pcloud” folder.

Now the GUI has launched from the start, but I now have to wait FOR AGES for everything to verify as already synced.

This is by no means a solution… As such, I have only moved the previous config folders to another area, just in case I run into the same issue after I restart my system a few times. Will update this post on whether this work-around works or not.

[Kristen]

Hi
I use the app downloaded from the pcloud website. I also noticed this morning that pcloud had no internet connection and yet I was well connected (wired) and everything worked fine.
I don’t know why either!
Remain to wait for an update I think.

[ddnn]

That’s weird. Does it show internet activity in your system monitor app?

I hope it’s fixed soon because it’s annoying not knowing if my files are really being synced or not.

[Kristen]

Hello
This morning no problem, pcloud connects perfectly.

[ddnn]

Same here! Maybe this is one of those cases where the original app is better than the AUR.

Hopefully, the mods don’t close this thread too early, as I want to do a few more restarts and updates to ensure that using the AppImage provided directly by pCloud is the solution. Will give it until Wednesday.

[ddnn]

Okay. So, I think it’s safe to say that using the AppImage provided by pCloud themselves is currently better than installing from AUR.

Due to updates, I’ve restarted my system at least 6 times in the last 3 days and so far the pCloud GUI launches properly every time.

This of course means the AUR package isn’t fixed and needs to be.