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dropbox hangs on "starting..." in Manjaro and in Fedora 38
currently on Fedora 38, using dropbox installed from Fedora 38 RPM at https://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/38/x86_64/ Observed behavior: Dropbox hangs on "starting"' Theory: there is something in my Dr...
I got some help from support. The key piece was to run "chattr -R -i ~/Dropbox" which revealed the problem files. I had created symbolic links from my dotfile settings in .config, .themes, and .local and placed the actual files in dropbox folders so that some of my settings would get backed up to dropbox. One of the applications put unchangeable files in dropbox and that is what caused the problems. Since I reinstalled fresh, once I was able to find the problem files via chattr and move them out of Dropbox, syncing resumed and is now fixed.
el-guapo wrote:...
Unable to monitor entire Dropbox folder hierarchy. Please run "echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=100000 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf; sudo sysctl -p" and restart Dropbox to fix the problem.
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Hi el-guapo,
Keep in mind that the message is template and the value 100000 is just an example. This value should be bigger than your Dropbox folder entries count (both files and folders - all together)! If you set a value smaller than total count it's meaningless - it's still not enough. You may want to determine this number - run following command:
ls -ARl Dropbox | wc -l
Here Dropbox above is the default place of your Dropbox folder from your home folder point of view. If you have changed its place use appropriate path there. Use the value received (or better bigger) and don't forget to restart you machine so the changes take effect. To see what's the actual value set and in effect, execute following command:
cat /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches
Also to change this value without restart you can execute following command for immediate but temporary effect (after restart will gets forget):
sudo bash -c 'echo YOUR_VALUE_HERE > /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches'
Good luck.
Nailed it! Thanks Здравко!
That did it. I ran the `ls` you provided and updated `max_user_watches` value and BANG! `dropbox status` is returning “Indexing…”
Thank you!
That did it. I ran the `ls` you provided and updated `max_user_watches` value and BANG! `dropbox status` is returning “Indexing…”
Thank you!
