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mnrzghi
Explorer | Level 4
6 months ago

The Dropbox service prevents a proper reboot on Arch Linux

When shutting down or rebooting the system, the shutdown process stalls on unmounting filesystems under /run/shutdown/mounts/..., specifically paths related to Dropbox. Example log entries: sd-umou...
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Jay
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5 months ago

Hi mnrzghi, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

Could you try uninstalling and reinstalling the Dropbox service on your device to see if this helps?

Keep me updated with any progress!

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    mnrzghi
    Explorer | Level 4
    5 months ago

    Yes, I have removed and reinstalled again (both AUR and flatpak). Only I was successful, when I stopped (killed) dropbox (with btop/htop).  I have attached screenshot of reboot process for your reference. 

     

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