Fedora/Linux tray icon submenu

Hey there neuromante, I hope you're well today!

It looks like the app is having trouble connecting to the server, which is why there are no other sub menu options.

Can you let me know if you have any trouble accessing the Dropbox website at all, through your preferred web browser?

Are you using a proxy or have a firewall running on your device?

Looking forward to hearing back from you!

Hi Daphne and thanks for the reply

No, I don't have a firewall running neither a proxy (I double checked to be sure)

I can acces dropbox website easily, no problem.

Sync is working correctly.

Hi neuromante,

Is there some reason you are using beta/test application version? Did you try stable release? If not, go in general settings and make sure "Early release" there is turn off. Next, run following commands in terminal (line by line):

dropbox stop
rm -rf ~/.dropbox-dist
dropbox start -i

Hope this helps.

Thanks for your hint but using stable won't help...already tried.

Здравко Daphne 

Ok, is there something strange on Dropbox startup? What is the result of:

dropbox stop; dropbox start

Some diagnostic messages appear there sometimes. Post the result. Let see it. 🤔

I've been having the same problem for probably years now. I'm using Fedora 33 - but it's been the same in 32, 31, and maybe earlier, too.

I tried turning off "Early releases" and re-installing Dropbox; didn't make a difference.

Nothing interesting happens when Dropbox starts up:

dropbox: locating interpreter
dropbox: logging to /tmp/dropbox-antifreeze-9lYtGl
dropbox: initializing
dropbox: initializing python 3.7.9
dropbox: setting program path '/home/dima/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/dropbox'
dropbox: setting python path '/home/dima/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517:/home/dima/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/python-packages.zip'
dropbox: python initialized
dropbox: running dropbox
dropbox: setting args
dropbox: enabling allocator metrics
dropbox: applying overrides
dropbox: running main script
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/dima/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._constant_time.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/dima/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._openssl.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/dima/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._padding.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/dima/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/apex._apex.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/dima/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/psutil._psutil_linux.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/dima/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/psutil._psutil_posix.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/dima/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/tornado.speedups.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/dima/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/wrapt._wrappers.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/dima/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/PyQt5.QtWidgets.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/dima/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/PyQt5.QtCore.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/dima/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/PyQt5.QtGui.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/dima/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/PyQt5.QtNetwork.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/dima/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/PyQt5.QtDBus.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'

(dropbox:76799): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: 12:13:57.658: About to Show called on an item wihtout submenus.  We're ignoring it.

Здравко Daphne Dima

[neuro@fedora-work ~]$ dropbox stop
Dropbox daemon stopped.
[neuro@fedora-work ~]$ dropbox start
Starting Dropbox...dropbox: locating interpreter
dropbox: logging to /tmp/dropbox-antifreeze-kzjgee
dropbox: initializing
dropbox: initializing python 3.7.9
dropbox: setting program path '/home/neuro/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-110.3.413/dropbox'
dropbox: setting python path '/home/neuro/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-110.3.413:/home/neuro/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-110.3.413/python-packages.zip'
dropbox: python initialized
dropbox: running dropbox
dropbox: setting args
dropbox: enabling allocator metrics
dropbox: applying overrides
dropbox: running main script
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/neuro/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-110.3.413/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._constant_time.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/neuro/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-110.3.413/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._openssl.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/neuro/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-110.3.413/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._padding.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/neuro/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-110.3.413/psutil._psutil_linux.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/neuro/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-110.3.413/psutil._psutil_posix.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/neuro/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-110.3.413/apex._apex.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/neuro/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-110.3.413/tornado.speedups.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/neuro/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-110.3.413/wrapt._wrappers.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/neuro/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-110.3.413/PyQt5.QtWidgets.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/neuro/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-110.3.413/PyQt5.QtCore.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/neuro/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-110.3.413/PyQt5.QtGui.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/neuro/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-110.3.413/PyQt5.QtNetwork.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/neuro/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-110.3.413/PyQt5.QtDBus.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
(dropbox:17497): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: 21:32:56.506: About to Show called on an item wihtout submenus.  We're ignoring it.

Nothing strange really...except for the libdbus stuff...

Dima 

Really weird...it works on ubuntu and opensuse tumbleweed (under kde it's a graphical mess but I have all the submenu options)

Daphne 

It seems this issue is not relative to my machine as Dima explains

Woud you be so kind to excalate?

Hello Dima, neuromante,

Yes, I agree, there isn't something suspicious. Seems like some strange behaviour 🤷; Not something new for Dropbox application for linux 😠, unfortunately. The last years, the only new "features" are bugs and restrictions! Communication to the system tray isn't a plus for Dropbox, generally. If I have to bet, the root bug for the issue discussed here and "under kde it's a graphical mess", as neuromante said, is the same. Just bad implementation of communication protocol. Would be fine if the application' developers get on this at hands, but I'm skeptical rather. Linux support is a last priority. If somebody is patient enough and have some time to trace what's wrong with Dropbox application calls to the functions exported from libappindicator3.so.1, ok - Dima like you did for FS related restrictions 😉🙂. I can't say anything more.

Let hope developers will change the priorities (little bit, at least).