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dropbox hangs on "starting..." in Manjaro and in Fedora 38
currently on Fedora 38, using dropbox installed from Fedora 38 RPM at https://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/38/x86_64/ Observed behavior: Dropbox hangs on "starting"' Theory: there is something in my Dr...
I got some help from support. The key piece was to run "chattr -R -i ~/Dropbox" which revealed the problem files. I had created symbolic links from my dotfile settings in .config, .themes, and .local and placed the actual files in dropbox folders so that some of my settings would get backed up to dropbox. One of the applications put unchangeable files in dropbox and that is what caused the problems. Since I reinstalled fresh, once I was able to find the problem files via chattr and move them out of Dropbox, syncing resumed and is now fixed.
yes, once the indicator appeared I was able to set the sync to a single folder for test purposes. The process never gets beyond "starting..." to index anything though. rebooted after that so that the system started fresh with the single folder sync, same thing. Exclude on command line did not work because Dropbox is hanging at start and not accepting any input.. I'm on the woindows box right now, so I will give some error messages a second reply.
[rich@fedora ~]$ dropbox status
Starting...
[rich@fedora ~]$ dropbox exclude list
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 1587, in <module>
ret = main(sys.argv)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 1576, in main
result = commands[argv[i]](argv[i+1:])
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 743, in newmeth
return meth(*n, **kw)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 1347, in exclude
exclude([])
File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 743, in newmeth
return meth(*n, **kw)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 1325, in exclude
lines = [relpath(path) for path in dc.get_ignore_set()['ignore_set']]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 1325, in <listcomp>
lines = [relpath(path) for path in dc.get_ignore_set()['ignore_set']]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "<frozen posixpath>", line 490, in relpath
ValueError: no path specifiedand restart gives me the following,
[rich@fedora ~]$ dropbox status Dropbox isn't running! [rich@fedora ~]$ dropbox start Starting Dropbox...dropbox: load fq extension '/home/rich/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-177.4.5399/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._openssl.abi3.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/rich/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-177.4.5399/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._padding.abi3.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/rich/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-177.4.5399/apex._apex.abi3.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/rich/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-177.4.5399/psutil._psutil_linux.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/rich/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-177.4.5399/psutil._psutil_posix.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/rich/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-177.4.5399/tornado.speedups.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/rich/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-177.4.5399/wrapt._wrappers.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/rich/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-177.4.5399/PyQt5.QtCore.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/rich/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-177.4.5399/PyQt5.sip.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/rich/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-177.4.5399/PyQt5.QtGui.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/rich/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-177.4.5399/PyQt5.QtWidgets.so' Dropbox isn't running! Done! [rich@fedora ~]$ dropbox: load fq extension '/home/rich/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-177.4.5399/PyQt5.QtDBus.so'and it hangs on "starting..."
[rich@fedora ~]$ dropbox status Starting... [rich@fedora ~]$- Walter
Dropbox Staff
Hey rcrath, sorry to jump in here, but are you running any 3rd party apps that might be causing issues perhaps?
If so, you can try closing them and trying again.
If that does not work, you can try reinstalling and selecting only specific folders via the selective sync feature.
In any case, please keep us posted.
clean fedora 38 install. seems particular to this machine. still checking my other linux box, but I think that is updating fine. nautilus dropbox is the only thing interacting.
I got some help from support. The key piece was to run "chattr -R -i ~/Dropbox" which revealed the problem files. I had created symbolic links from my dotfile settings in .config, .themes, and .local and placed the actual files in dropbox folders so that some of my settings would get backed up to dropbox. One of the applications put unchangeable files in dropbox and that is what caused the problems. Since I reinstalled fresh, once I was able to find the problem files via chattr and move them out of Dropbox, syncing resumed and is now fixed.
