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flatboy2016
Helpful | Level 5
4 years ago

Dropbox unable to start on Linux container

Host is CentOS 7; all host filesystems are ext4. I'm trying to create a container using otherguy/dropbox.   Container is successful at downloading current version of Dropbox client and requesting ...
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    flatboy2016
    4 years ago

    Solution found.  I had to make sure my Dropbox folder was owned by the dropbox user and showing the correct UID and GID.

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flatboy2016
Helpful | Level 5

Solution found.  I had to make sure my Dropbox folder was owned by the dropbox user and showing the correct UID and GID.

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