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#1 2013-11-13 21:45:14

CrashLog
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From: Finland
Registered: 2013-01-13
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[SOLVED] Dropbox stuck on "Connecting..."

I use networkmanager, and so I started with the instructions from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/dr … on_laptops and used the networkmanager-dispatcher-dropbox script to try and get it to work, but that failed, even after working around the three seconds timeout, as instructed by https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne … dispatcher.
Curiously enough, even the script from https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 3#p1012343 doesn't appear to work. I'm pretty much lost as to where I should go from here.

Last edited by CrashLog (2013-11-14 08:42:36)


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#2 2013-11-14 03:08:29

donniezazen
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Re: [SOLVED] Dropbox stuck on "Connecting..."

1. Bug Dropbox to fix this issue.

One of the problems I was having earlier was that AUR package installs Dropbox in /opt whereas Dropbox auto-updates and installs itself in ~/.dropbox-dist. So, basically all scripts designed run Dropbox out of /opt will fail. The following worked for me.

Quit Dropbox.

# Dropbox won't be able to write to this folder - mtorromeo
rm -rf ~/.dropbox-dist
install -dm0 ~/.dropbox-dist

Uncheck "Start Dropbox on system start"

sudo systemctl enable dropbox@<username>.service

pacaur -S networkmanager-dispatcher-dropbox-systemd

systemctl reboot

BTW This script has always worked for me.

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#3 2013-11-14 08:41:54

CrashLog
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Re: [SOLVED] Dropbox stuck on "Connecting..."

donniezazen wrote:

BTW This script has always worked for me.

That seems to have done the trick. I'm marking this as solved for now. Thanks for the help.


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