Dropbox stopped working

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Using plasma/wayland, Dropbox stopped loading. The icon does not appear in the tray. Launching from the terminal doesn’t produce error messages per se, but does produce

dropbox: load fq extension '/home/biscotty/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-209.4.3661/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._openssl.abi3.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/biscotty/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-209.4.3661/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._padding.abi3.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/biscotty/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-209.4.3661/apex._apex.abi3.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/biscotty/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-209.4.3661/psutil._psutil_linux.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/biscotty/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-209.4.3661/psutil._psutil_posix.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/biscotty/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-209.4.3661/google._upb._message.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/biscotty/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-209.4.3661/tornado.speedups.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/biscotty/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-209.4.3661/wrapt._wrappers.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/biscotty/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-209.4.3661/PyQt5.QtCore.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/biscotty/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-209.4.3661/PyQt5.sip.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/biscotty/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-209.4.3661/PyQt5.QtGui.so'

I removed Dropbox and it’s associated directories and reinstalled. The icon appeared, and I went to settings to connect to my account, which took me to a browser interface. After connecting, I realized the Dropbox app was no longer running. I relaunched it, and it started flashing as it does when syncing, and it did sync, at least partially. Then the app crashed again, and will not relaunch.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

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Yeah me too. I thought it might have to do with my institution’s administrator accidentally yeeting all of our accounts, but maybe not.

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I had the exact same problem, including the part where it crashes after the reinstallation. I am still trying to find out what is happening.

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I have the same problem, so I assume that all NixOS users are affected!

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Thanks for the confirmation.

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Me as well. It worked fine until recently when I upgraded my packages.

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If you run Dropbox with sudo (i.e., sudo dropbox), then it will run, but it won’t let you sign in using Firefox because the user owns /tmp/xauth....

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Same. Delighted to find this post. To rectify I thought maybe switching from NixOS 24.05 to Unstable might resolve it (before I saw this - I thought maybe a new package had been released but not for 24.05). And now I’ve just got new problems - Waybar has stopped working (I’m using Sway as window manager) as well as Dropbox…

As a newcomer to NixOS (from Manjaro), this is one advantage that AUR does have over Nix packages, normally someone has already identified the problem and a workaround in the comments for that package before you realise there is an issue. I don’t think there is an equivalent in the Nix ecosystem - like to be wrong though…

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I think the issue is being worked on in

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Thanks for checking. I was going to make sure an issue had been opened there, just hadn’t gotten around to it. Cheers.

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It’s rolling :slight_smile:

https://nixpk.gs/pr-tracker.html?pr=345885

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And it works! (extra characters)

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This didn’t work immediately for me. It was some time before I realised I had to also delete / rename ~/dropbox-dist before it would download the updated version required.