on system start-up my Dropbox daemon doesn't start
i can go in with command line
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dropbox stop dropboxd
dropbox start dropboxd
***this problem has only been happening recently -- 10 days about ***
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dropbox stop dropboxd
dropbox start dropboxd
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less /var/log/apt/history.log
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cat /etc/debian_version
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Ask appropriate forum if you're using something else than Debian
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dmesg
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journalctl
Asking Dropbox might be the best channel for help on the issue.The Nautilus installer source code has been released under an MIT license, and people have reported building from source on different versions of Gentoo, Arch Linux, OpenSUSE, and Debian. Your results may vary.
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dropbox start dropboxd
You could have checked whether the process is running with top or whatever GUI process manager / system monitor you are using.i get a message stating dropbox already running.
There seems to be package to integrate Dropbox at least with Nautilus, Mate and Thunar. I don't have experience on any of those, so someone else needs to provide some first hand knowledge. You still didn't mention, how have you installed Dropbox. You didn't mention what did you install. Which packages, from where? Synaptic can install packages both from repositories and deb-files, and result can be very different. If you have used .deb intended for Ubuntu, odd behaviour is not unexpected.Dropbox doesn't seem to have fully supported desktop client for any other distro than Ubuntu
If you use Nautilus and have installed nautilus-dropbox (from repositories), then you might be interested to browse the reported issues in Github. Sounds a lot like this one.it could be that the icon just doesn't appear in the tray: if I issue...
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dropbox stop dropboxd
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dpkg -i *.deb
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mike@Office1:~$ dpkg -l "drop*"
Desired=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 dropbox 2015.10.28 amd64 cloud synchronization engine - CLI and Nautilus extension
mike@Office1:~$ sudo apt-mark hold dropbox
[sudo] password for mike:
dropbox set on hold.
mike@Office1:~$