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I am using Dropbox 50.4.71 on OpenSUSE Leap 15, just downloaded the app into home folder, on Leap there is still no Dropbox package.
App works well, however after restart (sometimes after few restarts) dropbox opens tab in web browser and want's to link. Basically configuration and account files, indexes etc. are removed from ~./dropbox folder.
I saw similar issues when people had Dropbox folder on removable media, this is not my case. Dropbox app is in home partition, as well as Dropbox sync folder.
I tried complete removal of dropbox app together with account folder, but it did not fix the issue.
Anyhing else I can try?
For now a quick workaround sprint, which waits, till internet is accessible. This script I'm running on start instead of regular dropbox start. It checks every 5 secs internet availability (loops forever) and after internet is online, dropbox launches. So far this works, till Dropbox fixes that issue in app itself.
#!/bin/bash while $(wget -q --spider http://google.com); ret=$? ; [ $ret -ne 0 ]; do sleep 5 done dropbox start -i
I'm not sure what you guys mean by unlinking account, but I have an issue where, after rebooting server, some folders containing a lot of files gets deleted on the server. dropbox then proceeds to sync this and the files gets deleted in the cloud, and subsequently deletion gets synced to other devices.
I haven't been able to nail down, when exactly the folders gets deleted, but it happens every time I reboot my server it seems.
Leeon, can you check if the output of this command keeps changing across reboots:
stat -f -c %i ~/.dropbox/instance_db
(Keep the output secret, just check whether it changes or remains the same.)
This shows the statvfs().f_fsid, which Dropbox on Linux uses as part of the config encryption key. The developers apparently thought it is persistent, but it really isn't. For example, on XFS partitions, the fsid can change if partitions are moved around, it can change if you boot with a USB stick connected, it can even change randomly on every reboot. Every time it changes, Dropbox becomes unable to decode its configuration and just deletes it.
(I really wish they had used something more stable, but I don't even know where to submit a bug report about it.)
@grawity Yes! You are right. When Dropbox starts normally, that ID is same as in previous boot, however when it disconnects, ID is different:
fe0300000000 fe0400000000
I need to say, that I'm not moving partitions nor connecting any USB drives etc. It just drifts by itself.
I will check this the next time folders are deleted to see if it has changed. thanks.
Update to possible workaround: moving and symlinking ~/.dropbox/instance_db is not enough, it lasted for a day and resets again. Now I moved whole ~/.dropbox folder. So far so good after one day.
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