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Leeon's avatar
Leeon
Helpful | Level 5
8 years ago

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...
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adreampuppet's avatar
adreampuppet
Explorer | Level 3
8 years ago

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.

Leeon's avatar
Leeon
Helpful | Level 5
8 years ago
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.
  • Leeon's avatar
    Leeon
    Helpful | Level 5
    8 years ago

    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 -i

     

  • fullmakt's avatar
    fullmakt
    Explorer | Level 4
    8 years ago

    I'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.

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