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Stuck on "upgrading dropbox"
As of today Dropbox is permanently stuck on "upgrading Dropbox". I'm running Dropbox in Linux. I've found references to such error messages a good while back by Googling, but no simple fix.
So I figured this out: Dropbox seems to check for a new version and if one is available, then fails to upgrade to it.
From then on, it keeps saying "upgrading Dropbox" constantly. This never gets better, unless I upgrade it by hand. Is there way to fix this or prevent it from trying to upgrade?
It is very annoying, as it constantly makes it look like Dropbox is still syncing. I also don't see any files that are being synced, as the "dropbox upgrading message overlays any other messages.
This has been true for any Dropbox version going back about 1 year from the date of this post. It would be more professional of you if you could make Dropbox log error messages, this makes a problem like this solvable.
This is on Debian Stable (Stretch) Linux.
Your instructions for headless upgrade says this:
cd ~ && wget -O - "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64" | tar xzf -
~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd
This works, EXCEPT that the second command does not work, because it says that another instance of dropbox is still running. So doing:
cd ~ && wget -O - "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64" | tar xzf -
dropbox stop
~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd &
works.
Maybe you want to update your instructions accordingly.
- Lusil
Dropbox Staff
As someone else in this thread noted, a request for further information is labelled - wrongly, obviously - as a solution.
Now, user ngtr was good enough to actually provide a solution, but (1) it is manual whereas the application should do this for the user, (2) it is not permanent. To expand on drawback 2: every time Dropbox tries to upgrade itself, I must reapply the fix. Moreover, when Dropbox is going through its regular and doomed struggle to upgrade itself, it uses some resources and indeed in such a way as to slow down my system, especially Firefox. All of this is pretty disastrous. So, Lusil, please ask the developers for an actual fix. Thank you.
I was in the same situation as the others here on the current opensuse level. I tried to adapt ngtr's solution without really understanding it and got into a situation where dropbox was trying to reinstall - and then hanging on 98% - on every new session.
Running "dropbox start" from the command line showed that something was looking for "libatomic.so.1" so I installed the newest libatomic package (not the gcc7 one, that would have been next) and now everything appears to work again.
Ugly. Very ugly.
Thank you for this solution. I appreciate it. However, it is only partial - as my post further down explains.
