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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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Hannu V.'s avatar
Hannu V.
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

I seem to be having the same issue on Fedora 21 on one of my machines. After dropbox startup, the machine seems to slow down further and further, until the only thing that helps is to kill dropbox. The odd thing is that the process is eating hardly any CPU at all and I haven't perceived any IO waits either when this happens.

One other noteworthy oddity is that it only happens on one of my Fedora 21 machines, the rest of them are unaffected and work just fine with the same dropbox account/version.

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