Rclone: Hangs on mounting Google Drive

[suityou01]

What is the problem you are having with rclone?

It hangs when trying to mount google drive

What is your rclone version (output from rclone version)

rclone v1.45

• os/arch: linux/arm
• go version: go1.11.6

Which OS you are using and how many bits (eg Windows 7, 64 bit)

raspbian buster

Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)

Google drive

The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)

rclone mount gdrive: /home/pi/mnt/gdrive

A log from the command with the -vv flag (eg output from rclone -vv copy /tmp remote:tmp)

2020/02/08 14:23:24 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.45" starting with parameters ["rclone" "mount" "gdrive:" "/home/pi/mnt/gdrive" "-vv"]
2020/02/08 14:23:24 DEBUG : Using config file from "/home/pi/.config/rclone/rclone.conf"
2020/02/08 14:23:24 DEBUG : Google drive root '': Mounting on "/home/pi/mnt/gdrive"
2020/02/08 14:23:24 DEBUG : Adding path "vfs/forget" to remote control registry
2020/02/08 14:23:24 DEBUG : Adding path "vfs/refresh" to remote control registry
2020/02/08 14:23:24 DEBUG : Adding path "vfs/poll-interval" to remote control registry
2020/02/08 14:23:24 DEBUG : : Root:
2020/02/08 14:23:24 DEBUG : : >Root: node=/, err=
2020/02/08 14:24:24 DEBUG : Google drive root '': Checking for changes on remote
2020/02/08 14:25:24 DEBUG : Google drive root '': Checking for changes on remote
2020/02/08 14:26:24 DEBUG : Google drive root '': Checking for changes on remote

[ncw]

rclone mount doesn't return - it stays running to run the mount.

If you want it to daemonize then add the --daemon flag.

[suityou01]

Ah. Seems obvious now you mention it. I guess because a regular mount command does return I was expecting something similar. For my needs I haven't even bothered with a mount and just run the rclone commands in bash using /usr/local/bin/rclone. Thanks for the info, I will give it a try.

[suityou01]

behaviour as per design.