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zephyr707
Helpful | Level 7
10 months ago

Dropbox-lnx.x86_64-218.4.4348 is stuck at "Starting..."

I feel like I have had this issue before, but can't remember the solution. Searching around it seems like there are a lot of similar issues with "Starting..." as dropboxd status and never resolves to...
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zephyr707's avatar
zephyr707
Helpful | Level 7
8 months ago

have tried the directions https://help.dropbox.com/installs/advanced-reinstall for a full nuke on the installation and reinstall:

installed xfce4-indicator-plugin as per https://help.dropbox.com/installs/dropbox-desktop-app-for-linux

changed from fs.inotify.max_user_watches at 500000 (already high) to an absurd 50000000 per https://www.dropboxforum.com/discussions/101001016/dropbox-starting--for-days-on-ubuntu-22-04/739884

ran another dropbox update and am now on 223.4.4909

still have the same problem with "Starting..." and it will either fill the disk up with unreadable logs in .dropbox/logs or eat up all the memory and swap the machine out to death.

is there no information that can help debug this? i am working with support, but the process is slow and everything about dropbox feels like a giant black box with no information

also very annoying that trying to post on this forum results in "content not published" complaining about some forbidden html character, but won't actually tell me what it is!!

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