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How to disable onedrive service from autostarting

rated 0 times [ 5] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 3170 / 3 Years ago, tue, june 1, 2021, 5:28:03

I installed "onedrive" from repo.
Works great but I don't want it to start automatically.
I'm tired of turning it off after each reboot - how to fix it?
I'm turning it off using systemctl --user stop onedrive
I was expecting systemctl --user disable onedrive will turn off autostart but it has no effect - systemctl --user status onedrive stil shows enabled;:

Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/onedrive.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)

and it starts after reboot.

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answered 3 Years ago tionavocad · Accepted Answer

Disclosure: I am the developer of the OneDrive Client for Linux - https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive

This issue is caused by the Ubuntu PPA package creating a symbolic link when the package is installed:

Created symlink /etc/systemd/user/default.target.wants/onedrive.service → /usr/lib/systemd/user/onedrive.service.

To resolve this situation, this symbolic link needs to be removed:

sudo rm /etc/systemd/user/default.target.wants/onedrive.service

To fix this issue permanently, the PPA package needs to be updated so that this symbolic link is not created.

The above information is also listed in https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive/issues/1274 which tracks this particular issue.