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tjansson
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8 months ago

The Dropbox app in headless Linux mode stopped working

I have the headless dropboxd installed as root on a Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS server and available as a service through the following script (/etc/systemd/system/dropbox-tjansson.service):  [Unit] Descrip...
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tjansson
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8 months ago

The "Early Access" was disabled

I just checked the server. The issue has resolved itself, as the standard script now installs a newer version (223.4.4909), and the userspace version no longer attempts to upgrade it automatically.

I guess the problem was just that the `wget https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64` command for file wasn't installing the same versions as the daemon tried to upgrade to. 

Thanks for the inputs. 

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Hannah
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8 months ago

Happy to hear that the issue resolved itself, tjansson!

If you have any issues again, let us know.

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