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Stuck on "upgrading dropbox"
As of today Dropbox is permanently stuck on "upgrading Dropbox". I'm running Dropbox in Linux. I've found references to such error messages a good while back by Googling, but no simple fix.
On Ubuntu 18.04 running:
apt-get install libatomic-ops-dev
solved the problem.
I thought libatomic-ops-dev was gcc7 based, the libatomic1 I installed is based on gcc8. There was no research on my part when I installed it, it was a case of "see if this works". It did.
I don't know how anyone else approached this but I entered "dropbox start" in a console-window and the error message made it clear what was missing.
DinsdaleFor me libatomic-ops-dev worked (no error in console), however after your post I tried libatomic1 and it worked, too.
A big - and strange - new development.
I have a second machine which also uses Dropbox and which was also exhibiting the same symptoms. So I installed libatomic1 there, logged out and logged in again. Dropbox then announced that it was "Up to date".
Strange is: I had reinstalled Dropbox on my first machine and now have 85.4.155 there. This second machine claims to have 84.4.170 but is "Up to date".
