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Fifis's avatar
Fifis
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago
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Dropbox daemon downloader freezes at 90+% on fresh Linux Mint 21.1

Good afternoon!   I cannot install Dropbox on the freshly installation of Linux Mint 21.1 because the downloading of the daemon freezes after 91% or 93%. The download becomes unresponsive, and a ...
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  • Fifis's avatar
    Fifis
    3 years ago

    Hello!

    Frankly, it must have been a heisenbug. I rebooted many times, downloaded the headless version, came home, retried... and the good old `dropbox_2020.03.04_amd64.deb` worked and is now syncing perfectly. It shall remain a mystery forever why it was not working... sorry for not being able to reproduce the problem, so it is solved now.

     

    Maybe in the future, one may need to do something about the 'deprecated' warnings:

    Starting Dropbox.../usr/bin/dropbox:303: PyGIDeprecationWarning: Since version 3.11, calling threads_init is no longer needed. See: https://wiki.gnome.org/PyGObject/Threading
  GObject.threads_init()
/usr/bin/dropbox:453: PyGTKDeprecationWarning: Stock items are deprecated. Please use: Gtk.Button.new_with_mnemonic(label)
  self.ok = ok = Gtk.Button(stock=Gtk.STOCK_OK)
/usr/bin/dropbox:458: PyGTKDeprecationWarning: Stock items are deprecated. Please use: Gtk.Button.new_with_mnemonic(label)
  cancel = Gtk.Button(stock=Gtk.STOCK_CANCEL)
/usr/bin/dropbox:348: DeprecationWarning: setDaemon() is deprecated, set the daemon attribute instead
  t.setDaemon(True)
/usr/bin/dropbox:334: PyGIDeprecationWarning: GObject.idle_add is deprecated; use GLib.idle_add instead
  GObject.idle_add(self.loop_callback, *ret)
/usr/bin/dropbox:344: PyGIDeprecationWarning: GObject.idle_add is deprecated; use GLib.idle_add instead
  GObject.idle_add(self.on_done)

     

    After it reached 100%, it started loading the fq extensions without a hindrance. Thank you for your prompt reply!

     

    Yours sincerely,

    Andrew.

Здравко's avatar
Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
3 years ago

Hi Fifis,

Try following command:

cd ~ && curl -L https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64 | tar xzf - && dropbox start

Is it working now? 🤔

Hope this helps.

steve m.5's avatar
steve m.5
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

I had the same problem today, 18th July, and the same solution worked for me.

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