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hmarques

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[SOLVED] Dropbox not working

Hi

Newbie here trying to build a daily machine with archlinux.
3.18.6-1-ARCH
xfce 4.10

When installing dropbox using the wiki I can't get it to work.

First I installed dropbox from AUR, added it to systemd and edit the service, never showed the icon or even run to create account/login.
Then I tryed to install it manually but despite it looks like it's running since when I execute

$ ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd

I don't get any error but it never show the windows to create account/login.

I'm probably missing something. Any suggestions?

Last edited by hmarques (2015-03-02 15:04:48)

runical

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Re: [SOLVED] Dropbox not working

The systemd service will not give you a system tray icon if the display is set wrong, so check if it is OK. Did you try to run it as a normal user (without systemd), using

$ dropboxd

A quick question: Why do you want to run it as a systemd service? Starting it with XFCE should work, right?

EDIT: Typo. It is dropbox, not dorpbox...

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hmarques

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Re: [SOLVED] Dropbox not working

Hi

Yes, I also tried to run it just like you said but it doesn't show any window to login.
So it look like it running but I'm not able to login.

EDIT:
Just noticed that when looking at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dropbox/ it says version 3.2.6-2 but when I run

$ yaourt -S dropbox

it shows version 3.0.5-1

Last edited by hmarques (2015-02-18 16:44:58)

jean_no

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Re: [SOLVED] Dropbox not working

Hi

Because you have the repo [archlinuxfr] enabled.

hmarques

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Re: [SOLVED] Dropbox not working

That's right, running

$ yaourt -S aur/dropbox

installed the last version but when execute 

$ dropbox

still doesn't do anything.

NOTE: Don't know if that's important but the available executable is dropbox and not dropboxd

alex.theoto

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Re: [SOLVED] Dropbox not working

There are some problem with dropbox.
Can you try the Install Dropbox via command line way? Remove your installed dropbox and try this one. It is not installable...

hmarques

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Re: [SOLVED] Dropbox not working

I already tried installing it that way (also) without success (same result).
The only solution I've read and haven't tried is installing an older version but since I thought I was doing something wrong (and I probably am) I asked before trying it...

runical

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Re: [SOLVED] Dropbox not working

Because you have the repo [archlinuxfr] enabled.

I don't see how this is related to dropbox. Care to elaborate?

NOTE: Don't know if that's important but the available executable is dropbox and not dropboxd

I just checked and it seems you are right. It used to be dropboxd, hence my statement. If you run dropbox in the terminal, do you get any feedback?

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hmarques

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Re: [SOLVED] Dropbox not working

Because you have the repo [archlinuxfr] enabled.

I don't see how this is related to dropbox. Care to elaborate?

It looks like that repo has an dropbox version available.
After jean_no said that I ran

$ yaourt -Ss dropbox

and it showed dropbox available from that repo with an older version.

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] Dropbox not working

You really should 1) remove archlinux.fr from your pacman.conf and, 2) learn how to use the AUR without a crutch like yaourt.

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hmarques

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Re: [SOLVED] Dropbox not working

Thanks. I'll certainly follow the suggestions of a more experience user but I don't think that's the problem in this particular situation since I was able to install the right version from the AUR. Or... can I be wrong?

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] Dropbox not working

Who knows what you are doing? You keep referring to different versions, you have provided no error messages or exact details of what steps you have taken; it is impossible to tell what, if any, actual issue you have.

Just remove the repo and follow the directions on the wiki.

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hmarques

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Re: [SOLVED] Dropbox not working

Just tried to install it again:

1) Remove the  archlinux.fr  from pacman.conf
2) Remove previous installation and folder .dropbox

$ rm -rf .dropbox

3) tried to install it as it's describe in the wiki (manually)

$ cd ~
$ wget -O - "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64" | tar xzf -

The problem is in the next step, when I run

$ ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd

the window to login never show but the program is running as I can verify running

$ ps -ef | grep -i dropbox

arojas

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Re: [SOLVED] Dropbox not working

Are you sure you don't have an account already set up for your user? Have you tried removing ~/.dropbox?

runical

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Re: [SOLVED] Dropbox not working

Have you tried removing ~/.dropbox?

2) Remove previous installation and folder .dropbox

$ rm -rf .dropbox

He did. But I still do not have an answer to my earlier question. Does dropbox output anything when you run it in a terminal? Saying that there is no window is one thing, but terminal output can be useful to find the problem.

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hmarques

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Re: [SOLVED] Dropbox not working

No, no output when I run it in terminal.

fsckd

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Re: [SOLVED] Dropbox not working

Just tried to install it again:

1) Remove the  archlinux.fr  from pacman.conf
2) Remove previous installation and folder .dropbox

$ rm -rf .dropbox

3) tried to install it as it's describe in the wiki (manually)

$ cd ~
$ wget -O - "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64" | tar xzf -

The problem is in the next step, when I run

$ ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd

the window to login never show but the program is running as I can verify running

$ ps -ef | grep -i dropbox

Do remember to install it from AUR and not from archlinux.fr and certainly not manually. While it has little to do with your current problems, having pacman manage the package will save you headaches later on.

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runical

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Re: [SOLVED] Dropbox not working

No, no output when I run it in terminal.

I don't know why I keep asking that. For some reason, it didn't in both cases I asked. Anyway, browsing the forums, I found another thread linking to this: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=192529. There we came to the conclusion that downgrading was the only real option to get it working, or setting it up as mentioned in the last post. Maybe this will help?

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hmarques

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Re: [SOLVED] Dropbox not working

Thanks for your time.
I finally tried to install a older version and worked.

I followed the instructions in this thread - post #14