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Vicon
Helpful | Level 6
8 years ago
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Need to "download proprietary daemon" every time Ubuntu restart.

I have installed Dropbox successfully on Ubuntu 14.04 using the 64-bit .deb installer from from https://www.dropbox.com/install-linux Everything goes well and dropbox has synced all my files proper...
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  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
    8 years ago

    Sorry to hear about this Vicon!

     

    First off, are you meeting all of our minimum requirements as per this page?

     

    More specifically, Dropbox needs the following software to work on desktop environments:

     

    • Glibc 2.19 or higher
    • GTK 2.24 or higher
    • Glib 2.40 or higher
    • Libappindicator 12.10 or higher
    • Nautilus 3.10.1 or higher

     

    Having said that and as I'd really like to help with this, would you mind trying an advanced reinstall  using this installer to see if this will fix your problem?  In the meantime, you may also want to review this Help Center article too. 

     

    Keep me posted on your findings! 

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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
6 years ago

Hi Walter,

I think you are trying avoid to say that Dropbox ignore Linux users; you definitely know that this bug is very old and is completely ignored from Dropbox development! I understand, it's not very convenient; if you say something your salary can stop.

 

Hi bnpndxtr,

The problem comes from an imperfection in communication between the control script and the daemon. Control script don't follow the daemon start, but relies daemon will open a communication socket in a hardcoded timespan (very very wrong). On heavy loaded system (initial boot and login session start is a good example), it's very easy this hardcoded time limit be violated. In such situation, the script "decides" that the daemon isn't installed (one more stupid decision). That's where the problem (your message) comes from. As a workaround you can try delay the starting process (as I noted in the referred thread). This works for me, but is NOT final solution, definitely. Don't rely for a solution from Dropbox, but I would be glad some developer to refute me.

Hope this adds clarity.

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bnpndxtr
Helpful | Level 6
6 years ago

@Здравко,

Thanks, I will try the dealy next.  I've used that before to "fix" other startup issues with other apps. 

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