Insync tray icon gone after a week of use

[Frank_Dekervel]

Hello,

the insync tray icon doesn’t show anymore on my ubuntu 16.10 (gnome) setup (after a week of flawless operation, don’t know what caused it to stop showing). When i run sudo insync start instead of insync start, the systray icon appears, however. I tried all other workarounds already mentioned on the forum to no avail. Starting with --no-daemon, i get a seemingly unrelated error about /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules/libgiolibproxy.so not being loaded because of a missing symbol (if it was related, running insync using sudo would not make a difference)

is there anything else i can try except purging / reinstalling / removing config ?

greetings,
Frank

[jaduenas]

Can you try this out if it works for you?

(LINUX) How to solve the issue "tray icon is not showing"

Below are the common causes for the tray icon not showing. sni-qt is not installed. Try installing it then restart Insync. In some cases, when Insync is set to run at startup the tray icon is not shown. To confirm that Insync is running but there's no tray icon, run ps -ef | grep 'insync start'; if there's an output then Insync is running. In this case, try stopping then restarting Insync to see if the tray icon will show. Check if there's an entry in your crontab for Insync by running cront…

[Frank_Dekervel]

Hello,

i tried all workarounds of that thread, see below. as already told, running insync as root using sudo makes the icon appear, so i guess it has something to do with my user. Is there no debugging mode i can enable, or a way to force show the main window from the commandline ?

greetings,
Frank

kervel@kervel-XPS-13-9360:~$ insync quit
Insync doesn't seem to be running. Start it first.

kervel@kervel-XPS-13-9360:~$ sudo apt-get install sni-qt
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
sni-qt is already the newest version (0.2.7+15.10.20150729-0ubuntu1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
kervel@kervel-XPS-13-9360:~$ insync start
kervel@kervel-XPS-13-9360:~$ crontab -l
no crontab for kervel
kervel@kervel-XPS-13-9360:~$ insync get_status
SHARE

[Frank_Dekervel]

While fiddling around suddenly the icon appeared again, i have no clue why it disappeared neither why suddenly it decided to come back (i first tried moving .config/Insync to no avail, then i put it back, and now the icon is back)

[gio]

check this out @lpugoy

[lpugoy]

@Frank_Dekervel: Are you using any GNOME Shell extensions?

[Frank_Dekervel]

i used a standard ubuntu install and then i think i installed gnome thru apt-get. probably ubuntu ships some gnome shell extensions, but i did no customizing at all…

frank

[pprados]

I have the same problem with Ubuntu 17.10, wirh GNOME shell extensions.