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Ben L.'s avatar
Ben L.
New member | Level 1
12 years ago

Linux client hangs in futex() call during startup

The Dropbox Linux client is hanging during startup on my Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 box. It has worked on this machine before, and unfortunately I don't know what changed now. I have tried wip...
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Bjørn T.'s avatar
Bjørn T.
New member | Level 1
12 years ago

Same problem on Arch Linux as of today. I upgraded Dropbox to v3.0.3 and it didnt solve the problem.

Dropbox hangs so badly that I cant even log in to the system. I get a 60 second login timeout. I had to disable the network connection, log in and disable the dropbox service to be able to access the system. There's a bunch of files being created in .dropbox/logs but they're not in plaintext and therefore unreadable.

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