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notredruide's avatar
notredruide
Helpful | Level 5
2 years ago
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DropBox Locks Up System While Syncing (Linux)

For the last several days, every time I start my Linux system (Ubuntu 22.04) it locks up after a few minutes. DropBox appears to be the cause. It loads on startup and a few minutes into syncing the w...
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  • Здравко's avatar
    Здравко
    2 years ago

    Hi notredruide,

    Try following list of commands:

    killall dropbox
sudo apt-get purge dropbox
rm -rf ~/.dropbox*
wget https://linux.dropboxstatic.com/packages/ubuntu/dropbox_2020.03.04_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install $(realpath dropbox_2020.03.04_amd64.deb)
rm dropbox_2020.03.04_amd64.deb
    sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
dropbox start -i

    Execute the commands one by one in the order as shown. If some error brings up at some point post exact steps as they appear in the terminal together with the error message.

    Hope this helps.

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

Hi notredruide,

Try following list of commands:

killall dropbox
sudo apt-get purge dropbox
rm -rf ~/.dropbox*
wget https://linux.dropboxstatic.com/packages/ubuntu/dropbox_2020.03.04_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install $(realpath dropbox_2020.03.04_amd64.deb)
rm dropbox_2020.03.04_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
dropbox start -i

Execute the commands one by one in the order as shown. If some error brings up at some point post exact steps as they appear in the terminal together with the error message.

Hope this helps.

notredruide's avatar
notredruide
Helpful | Level 5
2 years ago

Thanks Здравко, that seems to have worked. I used the "apt" command because I understand "apt-get" has been deprecated. I did get one notification after running "sudo apt update": "Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file '/home/[user]/dropbox_2020.03.04_amd64.deb' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)." (Is this because there was already a copy of that file in my home Downloads directory?) Also the last command was unnecessary because Dropbox launched itself and offered to complete the installation by downloading the daemon. When I first did that it reported an error that I forgot to copy but I think it said the file couldn't be verified or the key didn't match -- something to that effect. But when I repeated the process everything seemed to install and it now seems to be working properly. Many thanks, or if I can trust the translator,

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