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yurisobral
12 months agoExplorer | Level 3
Problem in Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS - Dropbox stopped working
My Dropbox folder is no longer syncing. I used to run smoothly, so I am guessing a recent Ubuntu update broke something. This is what I get when I run Dropbox on the command line:
yuri@yuri-del...
yurisobral
Explorer | Level 3
Hello there, Hannah!
Thanks for your reply. I have checked everything and it seems that I do have all the minimum requirements to run dropbox on my machine. In fact, it has been running on this machine since day 1 I bought it, and I've upgraded to Ubuntu 22.04 basically since it was released last year very smoothly, without any major problem.
Please find below some screenshots to help you check all this info.
I still can't make dropbox run on this machine.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Yuri
Здравко
12 months agoLegendary | Level 20
yurisobral, you have 2 issues. You have customized your system (unsupported version of Python installed). ntfs is NOT supported on Linux. That's it.
PS: You may try workaround (the first issue) with a command like:
sudo wget -O /usr/bin/dropbox https://www.dropbox.com/download?dl=packages/dropbox.py
Good luck.
- yurisobral12 months agoExplorer | Level 3
Dear Здравко,
Thanks for your comments.
Please note that linux and dropbox are both installed on the sda6 partition, which is an ext4 partition. Please note that Dropbox was running perfectly (for the last 5 years or so) until a couple of weeks ago.
I do not recall changing the python version on my ubuntu. This is the version that I have installed right now:
Your workaround did not work, unfortunately. It seems to do something:
But when I run dropbox I still get the "bootstrap panicked" message.
Cheers,
Yuri
- Walter12 months agoDropbox Staff
Hey yurisobral, sorry to jump in here, but have you tried creating a new OS profile and installing the desktop app there?
- Здравко12 months agoLegendary | Level 20
yurisobral wrote:...
Starting Dropbox...Bootstrap panicked!!
/usr/bin/dropbox:303: PyGIDeprecationWarning: Since version 3.11, calling threads_init is no longer needed. See: https://wiki.gnome.org/PyGObject/Threading
GObject.threads_init()...
yurisobral wrote:...
I do not recall changing the python version on my ubuntu. This is the version that I have installed right now:
...
Hm...🤔 I cannot say anything more than - strange... Anyway.
Can you post following command output:
which dropbox
as well as the "dropbox start -i" command output once again, after it's updated already with wget.
- yurisobral12 months agoExplorer | Level 3
There you go!
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