My new Arch - Dropbox problem

Question

Hello Arch community,
I just spent the last 2-3 days installing, downloading, reading this forum and the wiki and configuring my new Arch installation on my Dell Studio 1557 and I now have a nice fast little gnome environment that fits my needs
First of all: Arch Linux is really great. I've been a pure Windows user for the last few years and I tried out some linux stuff on my notebook lately. Arch Linux was the only one that really gave me the chance to build my own system without hours of compiling and without having tons of crap installed that I don't use. I'm not totally finished yet, but that is another thing...
Now I have one problem that bugs me atm:
I installed Dropbox from the AUR (not the nautilus version) and it basically works... but only if i start it after networkmanager has established my wireless connection
Right now it's like: Dropbox starts, tries to connect... wireless connection ist not established yet -> no connection possible; Then networkmanager is doing his work and connects to my wireless network -> connection ist there, but Dropbox resides in the "Connecting" state and it doesn't change -> no sync. I have to stop and restart it, then it instantly connects and syncs my folder.
Is there any (easy) way to make Dropbox start after connecting to the wireless network?
PS: Please excuse any grammatical mistakes, my native language is german
Last edited by zwoggel (2010-05-10 10:30:46)

Answer 1

manzdagratiano wrote:
onemyndseye wrote:
I was affected by this problem and wrote the follow bit of code as a workaround:
/usr/bin/dropboxd
#!/bin/sh
# Copyright 2008 Evenflow, Inc., 2010 Dropbox
# Environment script for the dropbox executable.
start_dropbox() {
PAR=$(dirname $(readlink -f $0))
OLD_LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PAR:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
kill -9 $(pidof dropbox) >/dev/null 2>&1
exec $PAR/dropbox $@ &
do_dropbox() {
start_dropbox >/dev/null 2>&1
while [ 1 ]; do
sleep 5
ERROR="$(net_test)"
if [ -n "$ERROR" ]; then
LAST_ERROR=1
else
if [ -n "$LAST_ERROR" ]; then
# Connection seems to be up but
# last cycle was down
LAST_ERROR=""
start_dropbox >/dev/null 2>&1
fi
fi
done
net_test() {
TMP1="$(ifconfig |grep "inet addr:" |grep -v "127.0.0.1")"
[ -z "$TMP1" ] && echo "error"
do_dropbox
Hope this helps someone
Woohoo!!! Many many thanks! I was plagued by this issue, and this worked superbly for me.... I just modified the script a little for error checking like you mentioned - with a `ps ax' to check for whether dropbox is running before trying to kill it. I love the fact that the script would restart dropbox in the event of a connection loss/reconnection. The modified script is as follows:
#!/bin/sh
# Copyright 2008 Evenflow, Inc., 2010 Dropbox
# Environment script for the dropbox executable.
start_dropbox() {
PAR=$(dirname $(readlink -f $0))
OLD_LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PAR:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
TMP1=`ps ax|grep dropbox|grep -v grep`
if [ -n "$TMP1" ]; then
kill -9 $(pidof dropbox) >/dev/null 2>&1
fi
exec $PAR/dropbox $@ &
do_dropbox() {
start_dropbox >/dev/null 2>&1
while [ 1 ]; do
sleep 5
ERROR="$(net_test)"
if [ -n "$ERROR" ]; then
LAST_ERROR=1
else
if [ -n "$LAST_ERROR" ]; then
# Connection seems to be up but last cycle was down
LAST_ERROR=""
start_dropbox >/dev/null 2>&1
fi
fi
done
net_test() {
TMP1="$(ifconfig |grep "inet addr:" |grep -v "127.0.0.1")"
[ -z "$TMP1" ] && echo "error"
do_dropbox
Many thanks also to varg04444 for suggesting his very simple script - I did not go with that only because it would not restart dropbox in the event of a reconnection.
Since ifconfig is deprecated now, I made a small change in the script to use ip command instead:
#copyright 2008 Evenflow, Inc., 2010 Dropbox
# Environment script for the dropbox executable.
start_dropbox() {
PAR=$(dirname $(readlink -f $0))
OLD_LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PAR:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
TMP1=`ps ax|grep dropbox|grep -v grep`
if [ -n "$TMP1" ]; then
kill -9 $(pidof dropbox) >/dev/null 2>&1
fi
exec $PAR/dropbox $@ &
do_dropbox() {
start_dropbox >/dev/null 2>&1
while [ 1 ]; do
sleep 5
ERROR="$(net_test)"
if [ -n "$ERROR" ]; then
LAST_ERROR=1
else
if [ -n "$LAST_ERROR" ]; then
# Connection seems to be up but last cycle was down
LAST_ERROR=""
start_dropbox >/dev/null 2>&1
fi
fi
done
net_test() {
TMP1="$(ip addr |grep "inet " |grep -v "127.0.0.1")"
[ -z "$TMP1" ] && echo "error"
do_dropbox