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erikw

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From: Lund, Sweden

Registered: 2012-07-17

Posts: 17

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Dropbox crashes Xorg

Hello,

for some weeks dropbox 3.0.5-1 from AUR crashes the whole Xorg session for me immediately when it is started. I've tried reinstalling, removing all ~/.dropbox* files, trying dropbox-experimental, running strace on dropbox etc. but * can not stop the crashing or figure out what the cause is. There is nothing helpful in journalctl or /var/log/Xorg.0.log, just messages from other programs that fails when Xorg dies.

How can even Xorg die from another application?, and how can I debug this finding the cause of the crashes?

Thanks,

alex.theoto

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From: Athens Greece

Registered: 2014-11-30

Posts: 307

Re: Dropbox crashes Xorg

Uninstall dropbox via pacman. Then if Xorg works fine, try to use the non-installable dropbox Install Dropbox via command line.
There was (still is?) a problem with systemtray icon.

Balto

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Registered: 2014-11-22

Posts: 7

Re: Dropbox crashes Xorg

Systemtray icon is still broken on XFCE panel the last time I tried (CLI tool works), but Gnome Shell seems to pick it up. In both cases there's no X level crash.

Which DE/WM are you using?

erikw

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From: Lund, Sweden

Registered: 2012-07-17

Posts: 17

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Re: Dropbox crashes Xorg

The problem solved it self mysteriously...

I'm using DWM.