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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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Eric S.'s avatar
Eric S.
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

This seems to be caused by running too old of a version of glib. We depend on at least version 2.22. This dependency version change was caused by the switch from Gtk to Qt. I suggest upgrading to a newer version of your distro.

If that's not an option, the headless Dropbox client might work. Just launch Dropbox with:

DISPLAY= ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd

You can then use dropbox.py to control the headless client.

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