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Hal MacLean
Explorer | Level 4
5 years ago
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Install headless on Linux 20.04 RUST PANICKING

Hi - looking for ideas on this, as it is the first time I've seen it... I download and install the client app on a Linux Ubuntu 20.04 server, set up on AWS. All seems to go well until I issue: ...
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ajaymdesai's avatar
ajaymdesai
Explorer | Level 4
5 years ago

I solved this by moving from Debian turnkey core to ubuntu and then everything worked.

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halmaclean
Helpful | Level 5
5 years ago

ajaymdesai  - Good you got it working! What version of Ubuntu?

I am having the issue on Ubuntu 20.04, on AWS... 

  • Hannah's avatar
    Hannah
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    5 years ago
    Happy Monday, Hal and leif_71, and sorry for the delay here, I was looking into this on my end. 

    Are you still having this issue? 

    If so, can I reach out to you via email, so we can look into this more closely?

    Thanks! 

    (PS. Just let me know if the machine having this issue is connected to the Hal MacLean account or the halmaclean one)
    • aclopes's avatar
      aclopes
      New member | Level 2
      5 years ago

      Hi there,

       

      I have exactly the same issue in Ubuntu server 20.04 running on vmware vsphere.

      Maybe this is related with ubuntu version and dropbox?

       

      I have dropbox running on several ubuntu vm's on the same host.

       

      Any help would be appreciated! Thnak you

      • alleyh's avatar
        alleyh
        New member | Level 2
        5 years ago

        Is there an answer to this issue that everyone can try?

    • Hal MacLean's avatar
      Hal MacLean
      Explorer | Level 4
      5 years ago

      Thanks Hannah - I am still unable to get Dropbox running, but I have not yet attempted to update the libraries - I will do so as soon as I can and see if that helps. 

       

      As for the multiple accounts - both of them come back to me, so either will work for email purposes... I am unclear how the two accounts relate to Dropbox, except I do have to run multiple Dropbox accounts for different organizations I am working with. It would seem the two are related to different organizations I must have been logged in as at the time I posted - apologies for the confusion!

      • Hal MacLean's avatar
        Hal MacLean
        Explorer | Level 4
        5 years ago

        wescpy - brilliant!

        This absolutely worked, and got the service running. Very grateful to you for posting it here - hope that it helps others as well.
        I've no idea what those libraries do, or why we had to update them, but I am glad you found that 🙂

    • leif_71's avatar
      leif_71
      New member | Level 2
      5 years ago

      Thanks @Hannah, since I was trying to switch to Raspbian and I had problems with dropbox I've gone back to Ubuntu Mate but I didn't get to try @wescpy's suggestion, I have no more problems.

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