Dropbox and F12

BenTrein · #1 26th November 2009, 10:29 AM

I'm a DropBox enthusiast, and used it without any difficulties under F11. For F12, I've downloaded and installed the tool without a glitch, but whenever the app starts, it hangs up on 'Connecting', and doesn't go anywhere. I'll ask on their forum too; later.

Internet works fine (hey, I'm typing this, right?). Can visit their site, no problem. And SELinux is in permissive mode. Have no other firewall than standard installed on 64-bit systems.

What could it be?

habtool · #2 26th November 2009, 04:08 PM

I just installed it on FC12 gnome, setup a dropbox account and it seems to be running fine my side.

Sorry I cant be of more assistance

BenTrein · #3 27th November 2009, 12:29 PM

Thanks. I installed F12 at school too - my IT head wants to migrate the whole school (30 odd computers) to Fedora, and I'm helping him experiment. There it works too. Perhaps I had a corrupted installer. I'll try again before I search more.

habtool · #4 27th November 2009, 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by BenTrein

Thanks. I installed F12 at school too - my IT head wants to migrate the whole school (30 odd computers) to Fedora, and I'm helping him experiment. There it works too. Perhaps I had a corrupted installer. I'll try again before I search more.

Wow, that would be great to have the whole school running Linux/Fedora!

Way to go

BenTrein · #5 27th November 2009, 02:08 PM

Yeah, well... There are a few people we can't force to migrate: the owner of the school, the principal, and the digiterate (read technologically incompetent) office staff. Most teachers seem curious, especially when we mention that there are no viruses.
Then we'll also be teaching the kids Linux (Fedora).

With F12 it's come a lot closer as network printing to a Windoze server has become a lot easier (although a FujiXerox DocuPrint 204A won't print over the network yet, but I'm convinced I can make it work!

)... But I'm digressing.

Dropbox retry is under way. First reboot.

Edit: uninstalled DropBox. Updated. Rebooted. Re-installed. Done. Now it works. It seems I had a corrupt download.

eolexe · #6 10th February 2010, 12:06 PM

Experience same problem. Dropbox hangs on "Connecting..."
Running Fedora 12 on MacBook Pro 5,1

BenTrein · #7 10th February 2010, 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by eolexe

Experience same problem. Dropbox hangs on "Connecting..."

I find now that drop-box keeps doing it, if it runs at startup, but the internet connection isn't up yet. If it can't get to the internet instantly, it hangs up on 'connecting'. If that could be the case, don't run it at startup, and load it manually after you've connected to the internet.

eolexe · #8 10th February 2010, 12:42 PM

Well, it's almost the same case as if you restart it manually, just after it fail

For me it's not a solution, as we do lot of documentation sharing between users with it, and of course somebody will forget to launch application

. Is there any way to postpone autostart till the moment when connection established?

BenTrein · #9 10th February 2010, 12:45 PM

There might be, but I'm not sure how. The solution I had was to buy a different router, that logs into the internet for me. So I power the router, and the internet connection exists before my computer tries to connect to even the network... Problem solved.

eolexe · #10 10th February 2010, 12:54 PM

Hm, well, It could be the router problem in some cases. I am pretty sure it isn't in my, because for 101% router is connected to the internet before I start up the fedora.
Btw, what are you using , Ethernet or WiFi ?
In my case it's WiFi. Probably the problem is in some kind of lag with WiFi authentication.

speck · #11 18th March 2011, 11:08 PM

I still had this problem in F14 and setting up my connections available to all users has solved it cause I think the connection is stablished before the user login (System -> Preferences -> Network connections -> Select the connection, click Edit and check "Available to all users")

(Sorry to ressurect this old thread, but this was helpful for me and it seemed unsolved, maybe can help someone else)

BenTrein · #12 19th March 2011, 01:40 AM

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Originally Posted by speck

(Sorry to ressurect this old thread, but this was helpful for me and it seemed unsolved, maybe can help someone else)

No apology needed. This is an interesting thought. I never had more than one user on my computer when I ran F12; but I do now on F14, so I automatically made the connection available to all...

And indeed, I don't have the problem in F14.

Thanks for sharing!