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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...
Здравко
Legendary | 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.
yurisobral
11 months agoExplorer | Level 3
There you go!
- Здравко11 months agoLegendary | Level 20
As seems you have some configuration issue on your system I cannot comment (I use the same configuration and don't have any "panicked"). 🤷
Anyway... As seems, your Dropbox daemon run already in spite. So you should be able sync whatever you like in you Dropbox folder (by default ~/Dropbox; in your case /home/yuri/Dropbox).
You can confirm that with:
dropbox status
Good luck. 😉
- yurisobral11 months agoExplorer | Level 3
Dear Здравко,
Thank you for all your help!
No, unfortunately I cannot sync. Dropbox is not running! Check the last line on the image below!
😞
- Здравко11 months agoLegendary | Level 20
Hm..🤔 Strange...
There is a small chance some erroneous app instance to run already. There are known bugs. Try what is already running using something like:
ps ax | grep dropbox
If needed stop all running (possibly died) instances, try something like:
killall dropbox
...or equivalent commands. Let's hope this will work.
You can try pass around the control script using:
~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd
Let's see if the "panic" will stay in such a way (key moment).
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