Headless Uninstallation

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While setting up a new laptop with Ubuntu Mate 14.04 LTS 64bit, in haste, I accidentally installed the “Headless” version of Insyc. I’ve uninstalled it, reinstalled the gui version. I’ve deleted my /home/john/.config/Insync as well as uninstalled and reinstalled the gui version. The issue that I’m still having is upon login, I get a notification saying that Insync is already running. The process manager properties show it to be launched in “headless” mode. I kill it, then go to my menu launch for the gui version start Insyc and I get my gui applet back. Otherwise no gui applet. How do I get rid of the “headless” auto-starting?

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Will be tagging our engineer @lpugoy in this and he will get back to you on the week of Jan 4-8, thanks!

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Thank you. Since I wrote about my initial issue, I launched Caja as root, did a search on the word “headless” and found two files related to Insync and deleted them. I should have documented the path and names, but was distracted and did not, my appologies. While this appears to have solved my issue, I can’t help but think that there’s got to be a better way.

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@Audiophlake: Apologies for not replying sooner. The issue is probably caused by an entry in your crontab for Insync. You can check this by running crontab -l.

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I get the following when I run crontab -l
“@reboot insync-headless start >/dev/null 2>&1”

How should I proceed?

Thanks,
John

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P.S. I thought I’d fixed it, but I was mistaken, so I’m still seeking your advice as originally posted. Thanks!

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@Audiophlake: You need to remove that entry from your crontab. One way would be the following:

  1. Run crontab -l > cron.temp.
  2. Edit the file cron.temp and remove the entry for Insync.
  3. Save the file.
  4. Run crontab cron.temp to use the file as the new crontab.
  5. Run crontab -l to check that the entry was removed.
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Awesome- that appears to have worked!
Thanks,
John