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Fedora 38 Dropbox hangs on "starting..."
$ dropbox stop
$ dropbox status
Dropbox isn't running!
$ dropbox start
Starting Dropbox...dropbox: load fq extension '/home/phil/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-189.4.8395/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._openssl.abi3.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/phil/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-189.4.8395/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._padding.abi3.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/phil/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-189.4.8395/apex._apex.abi3.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/phil/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-189.4.8395/psutil._psutil_linux.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/phil/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-189.4.8395/psutil._psutil_posix.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/phil/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-189.4.8395/tornado.speedups.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/phil/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-189.4.8395/wrapt._wrappers.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
Dropbox isn't running!
Done!
[phil@vesta ~]$ dropbox status
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/phil/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-189.4.8395/PyQt5.QtCore.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/phil/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-189.4.8395/PyQt5.sip.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/phil/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-189.4.8395/PyQt5.QtGui.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/phil/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-189.4.8395/PyQt5.QtWidgets.so'
Dropbox isn't running!
[phil@vesta ~]$
[phil@vesta ~]$ dropbox: load fq extension '/home/phil/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-189.4.8395/PyQt5.QtDBus.so'
dropbox status
Connecting...
[phil@vesta ~]$ dropbox status
Connecting...
[phil@vesta ~]$ dropbox status
Starting...
(and stays at that status)
Files do sync, however! Creating a folder on the browser and it shows in the directory. Deleting the folder in the directory, and is deleted from the browser.
Fedora Linux 38 (Workstation Edition)
Gnome 44.7
Linux 6.6.8-100.fc38.x86_64
"chattr -R -i ~/Dropbox" shows nothing.
Uninstall and reinstall fixes it.
No differences between newly synced files and saved copy of old files. So is good.
- Megan
Dropbox Staff
"chattr -R -i ~/Dropbox" shows nothing.
Uninstall and reinstall fixes it.
No differences between newly synced files and saved copy of old files. So is good.
