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Dropbox on OpenSUSE Leap 15 (Linux) unlinks after restart
I am using Dropbox 50.4.71 on OpenSUSE Leap 15, just downloaded the app into home folder, on Leap there is still no Dropbox package.
App works well, however after restart (sometimes after few resta...
A big thank you for your patience and tests. I am puzzled about who is removing the configuration files from ~./dropbox, whether the OS or Dropbox. I expect it not to work upon logout if it is Dropbox. Do you know at which point the configuration files are removed from ~./dropbox? Is it possible to quit Dropbox, backup the folder ./dropbox (you may try coping to anther place in your home directory as well as to an external media), restart OS, replace ./dropbox from backup, then start Dropbox?
After reindex (about 20 minutes) I quit Dropbox and made .dropbox directory backup. Than I executed several restarts without any issues. I created dummy folder in sync directory, removed it, waited for the sync and made another restart of the app. .dropbox folder was purged (index cache etc. was truncated) and account was unlinked So I stopped dropbox again, restored .dropbox folder, but after app start it was purged again.
There is nothing extraordinary in logs. Any advanced logging I can turn on?
There is nothing extraordinary in logs. Any advanced logging I can turn on?
- I did yet another test: created a dummy folder again, deleted it, stopped dropbox, started again, did it couple of time, everything was ok. After next restart DB disconnects again :/
Hi Leeon, Can you please install Dropbox from here - https://software.opensuse.org/package/dropbox? You may choose 1 Click Install for openSUSE Leap 15.0 Community Package. Note that OpenSUSE is not officially supported by Dropbox, so I am afraid that the package you downloaded from dropbox.com has some issues with OpenSUSE.
No luck with that either. It however installed one another Python dependency, but at the end it is just package with Dropbox icons for the system and it anyway downloads the same DP package which I was already using.
On previous OpenSUSE version 42.3 I had no issue, it starts after upgrade to Leap 15. In the system there is for example an issue with OpenSSL (I already had to use some workarounds in wpa_supplicant and some other apps using that), so if Dropbox uses it, it might cause this problem.For your information: I did a fresh installation of Leap 15 on a virtual machine, and tested installing Dropbox through YaST. For me it is working fine, no un-linking after reboot.
- Hi Elixir, it is actually now my second installation of Leap 15 (hint to everybody: do not attempt to delete .snapper directory, as it contains hard links to your system files ... now I know ;) ). Both installations behaved the same with Dropbox.
I use Btrfs for root and XFS for home (where Dropbox app and sync folder is located). Both are part of LVM which is encrypted by Luks. Not sure if this can make any difference.
Maybe something in my sync directory causing corruption of DP index DB (although there is nothing much extraordinary - just regular files, documents, some binaries...)? - For what it's worth, I'm experiencing this issue on MX-17 configured as a live-usb with persistence. At every boot-up I'm asked to sign-in, and Dropbox indexes for half an hour or so. MX-17 utilizes XFCE and is based on Debian 9. I've re-installed Dropbox multiple times, purged the config files, tried moving the Dropbox folder to a new location, and clicked the "autostart" button on the Dropbox gui -- but I'm disconnected with each boot.
My production machines run Manjaro (Arch-based) with various desktop environments, and Dropbox runs perfectly on all of them. - An interesting finding - at work using ethernet cable I do not suffer Dropbox disconnections (or at least I am not aware - I'll keep an eye on that).
However at home using WiFi, it starts couple of seconds after plasma desktop is up and mostly when it goes up dropbox is already started and in most cases causing request to reconnect (and 30min of reindexing) the account.
Might anyone confirm, just by disabling some known wifi and reboot, so network is not accessible at the start, but NetworkManager service running? Hello Leeon,
I just got a chance to boot into the MX-17 live-usb. I normally run ethernet for the faster and more reliable speed, so I unhooked the cable, disabled wifi, and rebooted. Dropbox gives a warning that I"m not connected to the internet. As soon as I started wifi, a browser opened and I had to sign in to Dropbox to reconnect again. So, for me at least, it doesn't matter whether I'm getting internet through wired or wireless sources.
- Thank you adreampuppet for testing, so seems type of connection doesn't matter? But you at least reproduced the issue, so far noone was able to confirm this issue.
For now a quick workaround sprint, which waits, till internet is accessible. This script I'm running on start instead of regular dropbox start. It checks every 5 secs internet availability (loops forever) and after internet is online, dropbox launches. So far this works, till Dropbox fixes that issue in app itself.
#!/bin/bash while $(wget -q --spider http://google.com); ret=$? ; [ $ret -ne 0 ]; do sleep 5 done dropbox start -iI'm not sure what you guys mean by unlinking account, but I have an issue where, after rebooting server, some folders containing a lot of files gets deleted on the server. dropbox then proceeds to sync this and the files gets deleted in the cloud, and subsequently deletion gets synced to other devices.
I haven't been able to nail down, when exactly the folders gets deleted, but it happens every time I reboot my server it seems.
