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Ben L.'s avatar
Ben L.
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

Linux client hangs in futex() call during startup

The Dropbox Linux client is hanging during startup on my Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 box. It has worked on this machine before, and unfortunately I don't know what changed now. I have tried wip...
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Geert J.'s avatar
Geert J.
New member | Level 2
10 years ago

I have the same problem with 3.0.3 on Centos 6.5. I suspect that an old version was silently updated.
My solution is to revert back to 2.10.30 and then make the .dropbox-dist directory read-only to avoid
automatic updates (which will happen!).

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