Flaky connection, duplicate service.

[Brian Sayatovic 0]

I'm running Synergy 1.10.0-stable on Windows 10.  In fact, I just freshly re-installed it again this morning to try (and fail) to overcome my issue.

My Mac Client  will be stable for days, and then go into a state where it fails to connect to the server over and over again.  But the strange observations are on the server-side on Windows:

I have two `synergys.exe` processes running (two separate PIDs, but same exact arguments):

• 1 synergyd.exe
• 1 synergy.exe (when I have the client open)
• 2 synergys.exe -f --no-tray --debug INFO --name XXX -- ipc --stop-on-desk-switch --enable-drag-drop --profile-dir "XXX" -c "XXX" --address :24800 --serial-key XXX

In the log file, I see normal activity, following by a complaint about a "-c" argument, and even more errors that I think are the two synergys.exe processes conflicting for resources:

[2020-03-02T08:55:59] INFO: connecting to service...
[2020-03-02T08:56:00] INFO: connection established
[2020-03-02T08:56:00] INFO: server status: not active
[2020-03-02T08:57:03] INFO: service command updated
[2020-03-02T08:57:13] INFO: starting server
[2020-03-02T08:57:13] INFO: config file: XXX
[2020-03-02T08:57:13] INFO: log level: INFO
synergys.exe: unrecognized option `-c'
Try `synergys.exe --help' for more information.
[2020-03-02T08:57:13] INFO: service command updated
[2020-03-02T08:57:13] INFO: starting new process as privileged user
[2020-03-02T08:57:14] INFO: drag and drop enabled
[2020-03-02T08:57:14] ERROR: failed to get desktop path, no drop target available, error=2
[2020-03-02T08:57:14] WARNING: failed to register hotkey ScrollLock (id=ef14 mask=0000)
[2020-03-02T08:57:14] NOTE: started server, waiting for clients
[2020-03-02T08:57:14] INFO: server status: active
[2020-03-02T08:57:17] INFO: service command updated
[2020-03-02T08:57:17] INFO: process started but command is empty, shutting down
[2020-03-02T08:57:29] INFO: server status: not active
[2020-03-02T08:57:33] INFO: starting server
[2020-03-02T08:57:33] INFO: config file: XXX
[2020-03-02T08:57:33] INFO: log level: INFO
synergys.exe: unrecognized option `-c'
Try `synergys.exe --help' for more information.
[2020-03-02T08:57:33] INFO: service command updated
[2020-03-02T08:57:33] INFO: starting new process as privileged user
[2020-03-02T08:57:34] INFO: drag and drop enabled
[2020-03-02T08:57:34] ERROR: failed to get desktop path, no drop target available, error=2
[2020-03-02T08:57:34] WARNING: failed to register hotkey ScrollLock (id=ef14 mask=0000)
[2020-03-02T08:57:34] NOTE: started server, waiting for clients
[2020-03-02T08:57:34] INFO: server status: active
[2020-03-02T08:58:31] WARNING: detected application not running, pid=69224
[2020-03-02T08:58:32] INFO: backing off, wait=2s, failures=1
[2020-03-02T08:58:34] INFO: starting new process as privileged user

My last attempt to get it to work (before this re-install), ) ended up removing _my_ permissions to synergys.exe and it seemed to stop the duplicate process from appearing, but it would still sometimes flake out.

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Hello @Brian Sayatovic

We need to investigate your issue closer. Would you don't mind to use a link in my signature and place a ticket for us?