Dropbox doesn't connect properly on boot

Question

I'm having a problem with Dropbox (version 1.1.35). When I first boot it takes some time before Network Manager connects to the WLAN. Then I see the Dropbox icon in the task list, claiming to be "Connecting...", but never finishing. If I exit and start it again, everything works fine. Is there any way to fix this?

Answer 1

Problem solved with help of Arch wiki.

/opt/dropbox/dropboxd was replaced with:

#!/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

Answer 2

You could use sleep to delay the start of dropbox until after your network connection is up. Put something like this in your .xinitrc or your autostart, depending on your DE or WM:

(sleep 30 && $HOME/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd) &