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rodduarte
Explorer | Level 4
8 years ago

Dropbox in Ubuntu "Dropbox isn't running! Dropbox is already running!"

Dear Dropbox community   I have been struggling with my Dropbox on Ubuntu for a while now. The icon on the system tray had disappeared, but files were still syncing. I tried a couple of things to m...
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ldamico
Explorer | Level 4
8 years ago

Hi Walt3r! Thanks for your help, sorry for my incomplete answer: yes, I have checked 1 and 2 from your previous post and it was working. 

 

I have installed the latest Qt build from their website (downloaded their latest installer following the link from here: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/gettingstarted.html) 

 

Upon running: qmake --version

I get the following output:
QMake version 3.0
Using Qt version 5.6.2 in /home/leonardo/anaconda3/lib

 

So I would be sure that Qt is installed. Perhaps having it in anaconda3/lib could be a problem for the Dropbox installer? 

 

Thanks! 

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ldamico
Explorer | Level 4
8 years ago

Edit: 

I tried the command line headless installation and I still see 

 

(dropbox:3633): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: 11:40:41.787: cannot register existing type 'GdkDisplayManager'

(dropbox:3633): GLib-CRITICAL **: 11:40:41.787: g_once_init_leave: assertion 'result != 0' failed

(dropbox:3633): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 11:40:41.787: g_object_new_with_properties: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed

 

 

Another thing to note, with regards to my internet line (so firewalls etc..) is that I have another Ubuntu PC connected and Dropbox works very well on that. 

 

 

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