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Former Member
4 years ago

1Password refuses to start if there are existing zombie processes

If there are existing unkillable zombie processes of 1Password running, it will refuse to start as "already running". This is usually only fixable by a reboot, as zombie processes cannot be killed th...
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Former Member
4 years ago

I have also encountered this. In particular, I use a Wayland tiling WM (Hyprland) and have run into this issue with Quick Access. If the Quick Access window loses focus, it disappears, and cannot be opened again; attempting it from terminal results in this same "1Password is already running" message. I'd be really interested in a solution since this issue makes Quick Access completely useless to me.

For what it's worth I have been able to reset 1Password without a reboot via killall -9 1password instead of pkill, maybe that's useful to you OP.