Dropbox Core Dumping on Kubuntu

[buzzingrobot]

The new 3.0.4 version of Dropbox is crashing and core dumping on a fresh install of today's Kubuntu 15.04 daily. I.e., the installer downloads the binary without a problem, but any attempt to launch the daemon fails.

[pnunn]

I'm getting the same issue today using a version that was working with older installs of Kubuntu happily (not sure of the version of dropbox).

[marco-parillo]

I just followed the 32-bit command line instructions from Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/install?os=lnx to a new Kubuntu 15.04 Alpha 1 installation. It seemed to work, only it did not place the icon in my System Tray the way it does on Plasma 4, but, when complete, it did pop up a notification that over 100 files were downloaded, which I can see in the Dropbox folder. It looks like your version as wget downloaded for me translated from: "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86" to: https://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/17/drop...6-3.0.4.tar.gz

Definately the same version number:

ps -ef | grep box
mparillo  2343  2342  3 13:40 ?        00:00:47 /home/mparillo/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86-3.0.4/dropbox
mparillo 22042 22029  0 14:06 pts/5    00:00:00 grep --color=auto box

[marco-parillo]

How are you launching it? I just have a shell script in my $HOME directory (again following their CLI instructions):

~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd

That I call when I want to sync.

[vasa1]

.. It seemed to work, only it did not place the icon in my System Tray the way it does on Plasma 4,
...
/home/mparillo/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86-3.0.4/dropbox
...

Was that Dropbox 3.0.4 on Plasma 4 or was it an older Dropbox?

The systray icon of Dropbox 3.0.3 has been misbehaving for several users of several Linux distros.

[marco-parillo]

Good call vasa1: My Plasma 4 installation is running 2.10.52

$ ps -ef | grep dropbox
mparillo 21680 21679  6 10:04 ?        00:00:02 /home/mparillo/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86-2.10.52/dropbox
mparillo 21763 21742  0 10:04 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color=auto dropbox

[vasa1]

I use the Openbox session available in Lubuntu 14.04. I find that killing the panel process (tint2) using "killall -SIGUSR1 tint2" allows the icon to appear. I keep a sleep of 60 seconds between launching dropbox and killing the tint2 process. Maybe you could try something similar with your KDE panel?

My autostart file:

(hsetroot -tile /home/vasa1/Dropbox/Backgrounds/gray.png) &
(sleep 2s && tint2) &
(sleep 3s && lxclipboard) &
(sleep 5s && udisksctl mount -b /dev/sdb1) &
(sleep 3s && compton --config /home/vasa1/.config/compton.conf -b) &
(sleep 1s && pkill blueman-applet) &
(sleep 1s && pkill applet.py) &
(sleep 1s && pkill update-notifier) &
(sleep 1s && pkill light-locker) &
(sleep 1s && /home/vasa1/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd) &
(sleep 60s && killall -SIGUSR1 tint2) &
(sleep 30s && conky) &

[buzzingrobot]

No change after a fresh install of today's (5 Jan) daily. Installing via the command line, or the dropbox_1.6.1_amd64.deb or dropbox_2.10.0_amd64.deb packages from linux.dropbox.com all fail with "Aborted (core dumped)" when ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd' is run.

'dropbox start' and 'dropbox start -i' report success, but no Dropbox process launches and no Dropbox folder is created.

[EDIT: A startup entry of "dropbox start -i" was created. When I logged out, to see what happened, a kdeinit5 error displayed and the machine locked with a black screen and oversized white cursor. After powering down and on again, the (new) Dropbox signon widget appeared, I logged on to my account and Dropbox is currently synching. Still no icon in the panel, tho.]

[marco-parillo]

Now it is happening to me also with Alpha 2.
I invoke my shell script, it runs for a second and disappears.

 mparillo@mparillo-1504-Alpha2RC1:~$ ps -ef | grep box 
mparillo  2217  2216 29 20:07 ?        00:00:01 /home/mparillo/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx
.x86-3.0.5/dropbox
mparillo  2250  2170  0 20:07 pts/12   00:00:00 grep --color=auto box
mparillo@mparillo-1504-Alpha2RC1:~$ ps -ef | grep box 
mparillo  2252  2170  0 20:08 pts/12   00:00:00 grep --color=auto box

I try to invoke it directly and it dumps

mparillo@mparillo-1504-Alpha2RC1:~$ ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd 
Aborted (core dumped) 

EDIT: After applying today's updates, it no longer core dumps. But, it still does not give me the indicator in my System Tray.

mparillo@mparillo-1504-Alpha2RC1:~/Downloads$ python dropbox.py status 
Up to date

[marco-parillo]

A startup entry of "dropbox start -i" was created. When I logged out, to see what happened, a kdeinit5 error displayed and the machine locked with a black screen and oversized white cursor. After powering down and on again, the (new) Dropbox signon widget appeared, I logged on to my account and Dropbox is currently synching. Still no icon in the panel, tho.]

I think I must have the startup entry also, but I cannot find it in System Settings. Where did you find yours?