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amatriain

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Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 51

[SOLVED] dropbox crashes

Today I realized dropbox does not start automatically in my laptop.

Removed the package and reinstalled dropbox 2.0.8-1 from AUR. Still no luck.

Tried the solutions mentioned in the wiki: renaming the $HOME/.dropbox folder, ensuring there's enough space left in /var, ensuring I own and have full permissions on the $HOME/Dropbox and $HOME/.dropbox folders, and of course restarting the machine and reinstalling the package. No luck, still getting:

$ dropboxd
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I recall reading an article in the wiki about how to get debug information from a segfault, but I cannot find it

Last edited by amatriain (2013-05-08 21:36:33)

madr

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From: Norway

Registered: 2013-04-25

Posts: 87

Re: [SOLVED] dropbox crashes

I don't know if this will help you at all, since I installed Dropbox directly from their site using:

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

And included the following in my .bashrc to make it launch at startup:

(~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd &)

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HalosGhost

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From: Twin Cities, MN

Registered: 2012-06-22

Posts: 2,097

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Re: [SOLVED] dropbox crashes

I don't know if this will help you at all, since I installed Dropbox directly from their site using:

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

And included the following in my .bashrc to make it launch at startup:

(~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd &)

Arch linux comes with a package manager for a reason, you know…

All the best,

-HG

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madr

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From: Norway

Registered: 2013-04-25

Posts: 87

Re: [SOLVED] dropbox crashes

Arch linux comes with a package manager for a reason, you know…

It doesn't look like the AUR version worked so smoothly for our friend amatriain here, so I just gave him a solution that worked for me.

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HalosGhost

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From: Twin Cities, MN

Registered: 2012-06-22

Posts: 2,097

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Re: [SOLVED] dropbox crashes

It doesn't look like the AUR version worked so smoothly for our friend amatriain here, so I just gave him a solution that worked for me.

Not using the package manager isn't a solution. Also, something went wrong for OP, dropbox works wonderfully for me as installed from the AUR.

All the best,

-HG

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amatriain

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Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 51

Re: [SOLVED] dropbox crashes

Reinstalled again, only this time I realized that some files were left over in /var/opt/dropbox after uninstalling. Removed them manually before installing,  and also removed the $HOME/.dropbox and $HOME/Dropbox folders to force the configuration wizard to run again. 

This time it started correctly, tray icon and all, and downloaded my files in a few minutes.  Marking as solved.