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Linux spike 4.4.68-desktop-1.mga5 #1 SMP Sun May 14 17:56:12 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Having trouble with Dropbox. I can't get it to start.

Kfilebox seems to be running okay. I have the icon in my tray, but status is "Starting...."

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madams   14507  1.3  0.6 768524 56276 ?        Sl   12:07   0:02 /usr/bin/kfilebox
madams   15165  0.0  0.0  12256  2240 pts/2    S+   12:10   0:00 grep --color kfilebox
[1]+  Done                    dropboxd


I've tried starting and stopping both Dropbox and Kfilebox.

I uninstalled Kfilebox and downloaded bianaries for Dropbox as a user:

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cd ~ && wget -O - "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64" | tar xzf -

Started dropboxd as a regular user:

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~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd &

And the usual thing happened - Firefox opened the local page from

file:///home/madams/.kde4/cache-spike/krun/11688_0_cli_link_nonce

Where I was unable to log in despite having credentials that log me in okay at http://dropbox.com.

Opening the Dropbox icon showed me that it was starting and the local webpage opened another tab.

When I try starting Kfilebox from the menu, It downloads the dropbox daemon and displays a dialog box asking to either run the GTK based installer or simply link an account, and the local webpage from file:///home/madams/.kde4/cache-spike/krun/11688_0_cli_link_nonce opens up again, while the icon in the tray tells me Dropbox is starting until it times out.

If I run the installer, the local webpage opens up agai and the icon in the tray tells me Dropbox is starting until it times out.

Choosing the option to link to an existing account does the same thing: local webpage opens and Dropbox tries to start until it times out.

I don't know, but here's this:

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$ ps -ef | grep -i dropbox
madams   14738 14507  0 12:08 ?        00:00:02 /home/madams/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-28.4.14/dropbox
madams   16002  2583  0 12:15 pts/2    00:00:00 grep --color -i dropbox

Any help appreciated.

Thanks.

mark9117 wrote:And the usual thing happened - Firefox opened the local page from

file:///home/madams/.kde4/cache-spike/krun/11688_0_cli_link_nonce

It should not open a local webpage, but that's more of a KDE issue there. Best try after a fresh reboot.

Or maybe your default browser is not configured properly to accept URLs as arguments.
See e.g. https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... cache-only or https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread. ... ache-files

Okay, that was simple.

I had to set chromium-browser in Default Applications. It opened the correct web page in Chromium.

I then set /usr/bin/firefox as the default browser. It too opened the correct web page in Firefox and I had the option to connect this computer to my Dropbox account. I clicked the button and it sync'd as expected.

Good call. Thank you sir.