unable to disable dropbox@.service

Labello · 2014-09-03 12:14:17

Hello everyone,

I recently installed "dropbox-experimental" from the AUR and wanted to only use it when I need to. So I ran "dropboxd" for configuration and the disabled autostart in the gui. then I disabled the service and stopped dropbox via killall and systemctl just to be save. But as soon as I reboot I get:

[seb@prometheus ~]$ systemctl status dropbox@seb.service
â dropbox@seb.service - Dropbox
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/dropbox@.service; disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Mi 2014-09-03 14:09:00 CEST; 20s ago
 Main PID: 491 (dropbox)
   CGroup: /system.slice/system-dropbox.slice/dropbox@seb.service
           ââ491 /opt/dropbox/dropbox
[seb@prometheus ~]$

Any suggestions how to really disable dropbox? Thanks in advance for any help!

torors · 2014-09-03 22:24:19

I have the file ~/.config/autostart/dropbox.desktop to autostart dropbox. May be you must dele that file if it exists on your computer?

Last edited by torors (2014-09-03 22:24:49)

Labello · 2014-09-04 12:12:20

No. This would note make sense. Even though this script might be able to start dropbox it could never ever have the permissions to enable a service I disabled before the last reboot. Moreover the script isn't there anyway.

blauman · 2014-09-04 20:06:07

a stupid thing... right click on panel icon of dropbox, settings, and disable autostart!! or search dropbox settings on your pc and disable autostart from there! i had the same problem, dropbox is set to autostart, is not your pc setted to start dropbox!

Labello · 2014-09-05 09:26:31

There is no panel icon currently, since dropbox just gets startet with systemd. Moreover when running it for the first time, I used the gui and instantly disabled autostart as mentioned beforehand. This still does not explain, how a systemd servie gets reactivated on reboot after explicitly disabling it before.

blauman · 2014-09-05 11:17:52

well, sorry but for me this worked. but a question: why you are using dropbox experimental and no normal dropbox on AUR?

Labello · 2014-09-07 09:58:02

why not? it should not matter I think, since there obviously is something run with root privileges that starts dropbox upon every boot via systemd although it is disabled which is definitely a odd behaviour.

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#1 2014-09-03 12:14:17

unable to disable dropbox@.service

#2 2014-09-03 22:24:19

Re: unable to disable dropbox@.service

#3 2014-09-04 12:12:20

Re: unable to disable dropbox@.service

#4 2014-09-04 20:06:07

Re: unable to disable dropbox@.service

#5 2014-09-05 09:26:31

Re: unable to disable dropbox@.service

#6 2014-09-05 11:17:52

Re: unable to disable dropbox@.service

#7 2014-09-07 09:58:02

Re: unable to disable dropbox@.service

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