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ncage

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Registered: 2014-10-16

Posts: 19

Issues with Dropbox

Hi guys, i'm having some issues with Dropbox. While it syncing is working most of the Menus in the status bar icon (or whatever you call it) are broken. I'm running gnome. Here is the list
1. "Open Dropbox Folder" - Does absolutely nothing.
2. "Recently changed files" - doesn't list anything
3. "Pause Syncing" - Does seem to work but you can't tell its paused when you invoke. The icon never changes & you must restart dropbox for it to resume syncing.

I've tried to add an optional dependency that was "possibly" missing  for example "perl-file-mimeinfo" but that didn't help.

Here is the console output if i start it from the command line:

dropbox: setting program path '/opt/dropbox/dropbox'
dropbox: setting home path '/opt/dropbox'
dropbox: setting python path '/opt/dropbox:/opt/dropbox/python-packages-35.zip'
dropbox: python initialized
dropbox: running dropbox
dropbox: setting args
dropbox: applying overrides
dropbox: running main script
dropbox: load fq extension '/opt/dropbox/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._constant_time.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/opt/dropbox/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._openssl.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/opt/dropbox/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._padding.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/opt/dropbox/psutil._psutil_linux.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/opt/dropbox/psutil._psutil_posix.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/opt/dropbox/linuxffi.fcntl._linuxffi_fcntl.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/opt/dropbox/linuxffi.sys.compiled._linuxffi_sys.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/opt/dropbox/linuxffi.pthread._linuxffi_pthread.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/opt/dropbox/tornado.speedups.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/opt/dropbox/cpuid.compiled._cpuid.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/opt/dropbox/linuxffi.resolv.compiled._linuxffi_resolv.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/opt/dropbox/linuxffi.gnu.compiled._linuxffi_gnu.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/opt/dropbox/posixffi.libc._posixffi_libc.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/opt/dropbox/librsyncffi.compiled._librsyncffi.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/opt/dropbox/PyQt5.QtWebKit.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/opt/dropbox/PyQt5.QtCore.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/opt/dropbox/PyQt5.QtNetwork.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/opt/dropbox/PyQt5.QtGui.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/opt/dropbox/PyQt5.QtWebKitWidgets.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/opt/dropbox/PyQt5.QtWidgets.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/opt/dropbox/PyQt5.QtPrintSupport.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/opt/dropbox/PyQt5.QtDBus.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'

I do get an error in the console windows when i click "Open Dropbox Folder":

Unknown option --no-desktop

Of course i haven't been through every single setting in the preferences to make sure everything else is working. For example i have not tried "Selective Sync".

Some Version info:
Gnome: 3.30.2
Dropbox: 61.4.95

AUR Package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dropbox/

Any help would be appreciated.

thanks...

ncage

Member

Registered: 2014-10-16

Posts: 19

Re: Issues with Dropbox

So after a lot of research i figured out the issue. It is a gnome/dropbox client issue. In gnome 3.28 they removed the --no-desktop option for nautilus. Dropbox tries to execute

nautilus --no-desktop

which of course fails. If you would like to know more info i spelled everything out in the dropbox forums:
https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Install … 765#M57918