Stuck on "upgrading dropbox"

[Martin T.1]

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.

[danielbradley]

Davewiner:

Did you do the:

./dropbox.py update

If you just do the stop and start, Dropbox will at least sync, but at some point in the near future it will try to do the update again, and if you haven't installed all the missing dependencies as described above, the update will fail again.

Please review my original post from 3 weeks ago where I give the full list of libraries that need to be installed.

Have you installed all of those along with libatomic1?

Please note that, unless you have changed the configuration of 'apt', anything you install using 'apt' is from the official Ubuntu packages.

Cheers,

Daniel.

[davewiner]

Daniel, thanks so much for your help. I'm going through my servers one at a time, and running the commands in your message from three weeks ago.

I didn't know about the dropbox update command. And in fact at least one of my servers doesn't have it. Must be a relatively recent addition.

Any tips on what to do for those? Go back to the beginning and install dropbox?

Will report as I make progress. Also will put up a blog post on scripting.com about this, to leave a trail for others, of course with a pointer to this thread.