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flatboy2016
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5 years ago
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Dropbox unable to start on Linux container

Host is CentOS 7; all host filesystems are ext4. I'm trying to create a container using otherguy/dropbox.   Container is successful at downloading current version of Dropbox client and requesting ...
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    flatboy2016
    5 years ago

    Solution found.  I had to make sure my Dropbox folder was owned by the dropbox user and showing the correct UID and GID.

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Hunter
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5 years ago

Hey flatboy2016, thank you for posting on our Community!

 

Have you tried installing the Dropbox Desktop application, following these steps, instead of the source you mentioned?

 

Let us know how it goes.

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