My dropbox stopped syncing recently on two different linux machinesafter restart. I spent hours trying to upgrade the first one before Irestarted the second one and noticed that it had the same problem. Bothstopped working after working fine for months or years. The first onehas been changed a lot since it stopped working, but I can report aboutthe second one.
I observed similar behaviour on the first machine before and after upgrading to ubuntu 24 (which I did before starting to debug much).
The main symptom is that Dropbox doesn’t sync. “dropbox status” returns“Starting…” even for hours after typing “dropbox start”.
“dropbox start” produces a lot of messages about loading things, but rarely any warnings or errors. Occasionally it warns about fs.inotify.max_user_watches, but this seems bogus: I have only 13000 folders in my Dropbox and the default is 65536. Nonetheless, I increased my fs.inotify.max_user_watches to 200000. This does not make dropbox sync, and it does not always stop the message that I should increase it to 100000.
“dropbox stop” and “dropbox status” also tell me “DeprecationWarning: isSet()”.
I have successfully run “dropbox update” on both machines. Restarted the demon but problem was not solved.
I have also tried to install a .deb directly from Dropbox:
🌑 $ sudo gdebi dropbox_2024.04.17_amd64.deb/usr/bin/gdebi:113: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\S' c = findall("[[(](\S+)/\S+[])]", msg)[0].lower( Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Reading state information... Done This package is uninstallable Dependency is not satisfiable: libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.40) )Here is some more information:
🌑 $ lsb_release -aDistributor ID: UbuntuDescription: Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTSRelease: 24.04Codename: noble🌑 $ dpkg -l nautilus-dropboxDesired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)||/ Name Version Architecture Description+++-================-====================-============-========================>ii nautilus-dropbox 2019.02.14-1.2build2 amd64 Dropbox integration for >