[Bug] Starting sunshine as ubuntu service cause failure in capture display and drivers

[DylanWaken]

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Describe the Bug

Sunshine works properly when launching from terminal. When I registered it as a ubuntu service as follows:

#FILE: etc/systemd/system/sunshine.service

[Unit]
Description = Sunshine Streaming

[Service]
Type=simple
User=dylan
ExecStart=/usr/bin/sunshine
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

The executable cannot find display or encoders. Here is what the log shows:

[nv_preset] -- [p7]
[2023:08:01:01:01:11]: Info: Sunshine version: v0.20.0
[2023:08:01:01:01:11]: Warning: Failed to create system tray
[2023:08:01:01:01:12]: Error: Failed to create session: Unable to open display
[2023:08:01:01:01:12]: Error: Couldn't expose some/all drm planes for card: /dev/dri/card0
[2023:08:01:01:01:12]: Error: Unable to initialize capture method
[2023:08:01:01:01:12]: Error: Platform failed to initialize
[2023:08:01:01:01:12]: Info: // Testing for available encoders, this may generate errors. You can safely ignore those errors. //
[2023:08:01:01:01:12]: Info: Trying encoder [nvenc]
[2023:08:01:01:01:13]: Info: Encoder [nvenc] failed
[2023:08:01:01:01:13]: Info: Trying encoder [vaapi]
[2023:08:01:01:01:15]: Info: Encoder [vaapi] failed
[2023:08:01:01:01:15]: Info: Trying encoder [software]
[2023:08:01:01:01:16]: Info: Encoder [software] failed
[2023:08:01:01:01:16]: Fatal: Couldn't find any working encoder
[2023:08:01:01:01:16]: Error: Video failed to find working encoder
[2023:08:01:01:01:16]: Info: Adding avahi service Sunshine
[2023:08:01:01:01:16]: Info: Configuration UI available at [https://localhost:47990/]
[2023:08:01:01:01:17]: Info: Avahi service Sunshine successfully established.

Moonlight connections will also fail with prompt regarding "video capture failure"

Note that starting sunshine over ssh would yield identical log outputs.

I did not find solutions to this in the documentation, issue #348 indicates similar senario but I did not encounter permission issues like him.

Expected Behavior

Function as normal sunshine command in command prompt on host machine

Additional Context

No response

Host Operating System

Linux

Operating System Version

Linux 5.19.0-50-generic, Ubuntu 22.04

Architecture

64 bit

Sunshine commit or version

vv0.20.0

Package

Linux - deb

GPU Type

Nvidia

GPU Model

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation

GPU Driver/Mesa Version

535.54.03

Capture Method (Linux Only)

X11

Config

origin_web_ui_allowed = wan
nv_preset = p7

Apps

No response

Relevant log output

[nv_preset] -- [p7]
[2023:08:01:01:01:11]: Info: Sunshine version: v0.20.0
[2023:08:01:01:01:11]: Warning: Failed to create system tray
[2023:08:01:01:01:12]: Error: Failed to create session: Unable to open display
[2023:08:01:01:01:12]: Error: Couldn't expose some/all drm planes for card: /dev/dri/card0
[2023:08:01:01:01:12]: Error: Unable to initialize capture method
[2023:08:01:01:01:12]: Error: Platform failed to initialize
[2023:08:01:01:01:12]: Info: // Testing for available encoders, this may generate errors. You can safely ignore those errors. //
[2023:08:01:01:01:12]: Info: Trying encoder [nvenc]
[2023:08:01:01:01:13]: Info: Encoder [nvenc] failed
[2023:08:01:01:01:13]: Info: Trying encoder [vaapi]
[2023:08:01:01:01:15]: Info: Encoder [vaapi] failed
[2023:08:01:01:01:15]: Info: Trying encoder [software]
[2023:08:01:01:01:16]: Info: Encoder [software] failed
[2023:08:01:01:01:16]: Fatal: Couldn't find any working encoder
[2023:08:01:01:01:16]: Error: Video failed to find working encoder
[2023:08:01:01:01:16]: Info: Adding avahi service Sunshine
[2023:08:01:01:01:16]: Info: Configuration UI available at [https://localhost:47990/]
[2023:08:01:01:01:17]: Info: Avahi service Sunshine successfully established.

[KuleRucket]

You are trying to run it as a global service with a process owned by the user dylan so it can't see the display of your session. What you need to do it run it as a user service (i.e. systemctl --user start sunshine). Also you don't need to invent your own unit file, you can use the one provided.