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Dropbox won't start on Linux (Ubuntu 18.04)
Dear Dropbox Community,
I have a linux box running Ubuntu 18.04. Until last week, Dropbox ran fine on it. However, something (I don't know what!) changed, and now it won't run any more. Specifi...
An update: this problem is solved now. It turned out to be due to a clash with Docker. I had been running into problems mounting SMB shares, and my sys-admin looked into it. Here is what he wrote, about that SMB problem:
"The issue was that you had Docker installed. Docker by default uses the same subnet in which our datacenter is located in (172.18.0.0/16) and thus your computer was rejecting the return traffic as it came through the “wrong” interface.
I changed the default docker network to 192.168.0.0/16, this shouldn’t affect properly built docker images (if you even use docker)."
A nice side-effect of him having made this change to Docker is that my dropbox has started working again!
Raj
Daphne
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorThanks for the update raizada, I'm glad to hear that the app is working fine now!
Thanks for letting us know here too what was causing this issue for you, I'm sure that this info will be very helpful for anyone else who might be having the same issue.
If you need anything else, please feel free to give me another nudge here.
Hope you have a great rest of your week Raj!
