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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...
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...)?
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.
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.
