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Anghellos's avatar
Anghellos
Explorer | Level 4
6 years ago

I'm getting an error message "Could not start the Dropbox daemon" for a Fedora 31 install.

Hello, I tried to install dropbox on my fresh installation of Fedora 31. The error that i got is "Could not start the dropbox daemon" if i run the installation on terminal i got additional details ...
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  • acquitar's avatar
    acquitar
    6 years ago

    Hi, I just used this command on my Fedora 31 Workstaion before installing Dropbox. The Dropbox daemon starts successfully now, and the sync function works well.

    sudo dnf install libatomic

    Now the only problem is the tray icon keeps showing "Connecting...", but it does not affect the running.

     

acquitar's avatar
acquitar
Helpful | Level 6

Hi, I suppose this issue is somehow caused by the new upgrade of Dropbox which shows a new version number 85.4.155 at the directory ~/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-85.4.155 .

For I can remember, the version number was 84.4.170 before I reinstalled Fedora 31 yesterday, and it worked.

I tried to install Dropbox via both Fedora repo and the rpm package proived by Dropbox, but all failed at the point of starting Dropbox daemon.

Hope this helps.

Daniel L.20's avatar
Daniel L.20
Helpful | Level 6
6 years ago

I had to install libatomic1 manually:

sudo apt-get install libatomic1

 

fyi- this problem started for me when upgrading to 85.4.155

  • KlausWuestefeld's avatar
    KlausWuestefeld
    New member | Level 2
    6 years ago

    Installing dropbox-lnx.x86_64-85.4.155 on Ubuntu 18.04 had the same problem.

    Install libatomic1 manually worked for me too:

    sudo apt-get install libatomic1

  • Miguel P.16's avatar
    Miguel P.16
    Explorer | Level 4
    6 years ago

    Any idea how to install on Fedora 31?

    • acquitar's avatar
      acquitar
      Helpful | Level 6
      6 years ago

      Hi, I just used this command on my Fedora 31 Workstaion before installing Dropbox. The Dropbox daemon starts successfully now, and the sync function works well.

      sudo dnf install libatomic

      Now the only problem is the tray icon keeps showing "Connecting...", but it does not affect the running.

       

      • sweetleaff's avatar
        sweetleaff
        New member | Level 2
        6 years ago

        works me on Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS

        Thanks

  • Miguel P.16's avatar
    Miguel P.16
    Explorer | Level 4
    6 years ago

    But this command sudo apt-get install libatomic1 works in fedora? 

  • manur_7's avatar
    manur_7
    New member | Level 2
    6 years ago

    After using "sudo apt-get install libatomic1" worked perfectly fine for me in Ubuntu 18.04 too!!

     

    Thanks a lot

    • Blaaargh's avatar
      Blaaargh
      New member | Level 2
      5 years ago

      This also worked for me, also running 18.04

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