Remove old RPC socket

Remove old RPC socket in the case that no other daemon instance exists.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mullvad-daemon/src/main.rs b/mullvad-daemon/src/main.rs
index 4e055183b9..199fa84152 100644
--- a/mullvad-daemon/src/main.rs
+++ b/mullvad-daemon/src/main.rs
@@ -98,6 +98,13 @@ async fn run_standalone(log_dir: Option<PathBuf>) -> Result<(), String> {
         return Err("Another instance of the daemon is already running".to_owned());
     }
 
+    #[cfg(not(windows))]
+    if let Err(err) = tokio::fs::remove_file(mullvad_paths::get_rpc_socket_path()).await {
+        if err.kind() != std::io::ErrorKind::NotFound {
+            log::error!("Failed to remove old RPC socket: {}", err);
+        }
+    }
+
     if !running_as_admin() {
         warn!("Running daemon as a non-administrator user, clients might refuse to connect");
     }