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CodesAreHonest
New member | Level 2
5 years ago

Unable to start dropbox in Ubuntu 20.04

Hi, I am unable to start the dropbox in Ubuntu 20.04 with Headless Mode with the following errors. I had read through all the forums and documents to find out the solution in order to fix this error ...
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Aysberg
New member | Level 2
5 years ago

Was able to get Dropbox running on my Ubuntu 21.04 server with the mentioned beta version. Before that I got this "Couldn't start Dropbox. This is usually because of a permissions error... " message, after linking the computer via my browser.

 

Thanks for the support.

 

BTW I had another error even before I could get the link message, because my PuTTY terminal was forwarding X11 on my headless setup.

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petardo
Explorer | Level 3
5 years ago

Thanks, it works by me (Linux, Offline- https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64 ) as well!

 

However I'm still having an issue:

When I run './.dropbox-dist/dropboxd', following happens:

Script is running fine, but after the "This computer is now linked to Dropbox. Welcome Pter"  message, the script is continuously reading/echoing the console and I can only exit by pressing Ctrl C.

 

After this I can successfully start the service with './dropbox.py start', sync works.

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