Enabling IPNS pubsub via daemon flags

OS: Windows 10 Home 21H1 - build 19043.985 IPFS Desktop 0.15.0

• agent: go-ipfs v0.8.0
• UI: v2.12.2

Bug description Cannot enable IPNS pubsub with --enable-namesys-pubsub daemon flag. Flag is added as noted in Which flags does IPFS Desktop boot with? .

The GUI (cube) flashes 2-3 times and then continues as nothing happened. Desired feature is still disabled - using ipfs name pubsub state . File config.json automatically resets to default configuration.

To Reproduce The flag --enable-namesys-pubsub is added to a file C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\IPFS Desktop\config.json . It doesn’t matter in which position it is added. It only causes a more severe logdump if it is added directly after flag --routing .

Command failed with exit code 1: C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Programs\IPFS Desktop\resources\app.asar.unpacked\node_modules\go-ipfs\go-ipfs\ipfs.exe daemon --migrate --enable-gc --routing --enable-namesys-pubsub dhtclient
Error: expected 0 argument(s), got 1

Expected behavior I am not sure what the expected behavior is, probablly the feature being enabled. I am trying to get familiar with IPNS PubSub atm.

Logs Faulty log

2021-06-02T19:31:46.657Z info: [meta] logs can be found on C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\IPFS Desktop
2021-06-02T19:31:48.226Z info: [web ui] window ready
2021-06-02T19:31:48.226Z info: [web ui] navigate to /
2021-06-02T19:31:48.242Z info: [tray] starting
2021-06-02T19:31:48.459Z info: [tray] started
2021-06-02T19:31:48.460Z info: [ipfsd] start daemon STARTED
2021-06-02T19:31:48.947Z info: [daemon] removing api file
2021-06-02T19:31:49.899Z info: [ipfsd] start daemon FINISHED 1.4393155000004918s
2021-06-02T19:31:50.047Z info: [automatic gc] enabled
2021-06-02T19:31:50.048Z info: [pubsub] disabled
2021-06-02T19:31:50.060Z info: [ipfsd] stop daemon STARTED
2021-06-02T19:31:50.120Z info: [ipns over pubsub] disabled
2021-06-02T19:31:50.126Z info: [ipfs on path] no action taken
2021-06-02T19:31:50.126Z info: [launch on startup] disabled
2021-06-02T19:31:50.149Z info: [ipfsd] stop daemon FINISHED 0.08913480000011623s
2021-06-02T19:31:50.215Z info: [ipfsd] start daemon STARTED
2021-06-02T19:31:50.350Z info: [daemon] removing api file
2021-06-02T19:31:51.239Z info: [ipfsd] start daemon FINISHED 1.0239555999990553s
2021-06-02T19:31:52.582Z info: [updater] update not available
2021-06-02T19:33:42.005Z info: [ipfsd] stop daemon STARTED

Additional context I am exploring a distributed app idea. Users would periodically upload/make available some data via IPFS. Service would use IPNS to log/retrieve the latest submission. IPNS PubSub would be used to notify the service of new IPNS mapping. For now, users would use IPFS Desktop as their gateway, since it provides a nice GUI, makes IPFS more familiar to them. Later go-ipfs daemon could be included in a seperate executable. As noted in the documentation both the users and the service provider need to have the IPNS PubSub enabled in order for it to work as intended.

[andrasfuchs]

I’m just a regular user and I’m not too familiar with CLI flags or IPFS on Linux, sorry!

[andrasfuchs]

I might be misunderstand your request, but isn’t this option available in the Tray Icon / Settings / Experiments menu?