<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Hi Folks, thanks, so far.. @David I checked the Notification service and found it was greyed out, so I assume it was was already running? I also looked it up in "Sessions and Startup" in Settings and the Notification was ticked so I presume it is initialised. However I can it hiding down the far right hand end of Panel about 1 pixel wide. I put some stuff in it successfully eg CPU speed. But when I restarted the computer the red-circle-slash-icon appeared only in the Indicator part of the Panel. However it would seem I should only need one and not both, so have I got my Distro's mixed and installed something that was not 100% designed to work on Xubuntu?? @Robert I changed my ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd script to the below (I have a different version it would seem so I only added the second line). #!/bin/sh export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="" PAR=$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")") exec "$PAR/dropbox-lnx.x86-3.16.1/dropboxd" "$@" On a restart the line stayed there, but I can see you suggest erasing the session info? Can I just erase the folder contents at /home/rob/.cache/sessions/ ?? and then do a restart?? I don't understand what you are saying after "Update:" below but I feel I know why you are suggesting it. If I have got the Dropbox thing in a knot by my previous experiments, they may not untangle unless the history is cleared, and force a total clean Dropbox start? On one reboot I was asked for the "sudo" password to enable access to the Dropbox folder. I thought I had made a break through, but the same problem as originally outlined has continued. Rob <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 13/04/16 21:33, Robert Streeter wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:CADy6YFm=D1JVGi6OkSy6dbgj81BcotP7HxAKEZ3TLftNYVBJ4A@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> I modified the ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd script as follows and rebooted and got the icon back. Since this file gets overwritten by updates I think I won't have to undo anything if they fix the problem on the next update. #!/bin/sh export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="" PAR=$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")") exec "$PAR/dropbox-lnx.x86-3.14.7/dropboxd" "$@" Update: When I tried this on my laptop it didn't work at first. I realized I was having the same problem I had with 'Copy' where the XFCE4 session saving was starting dropbox before the official startup file was executed. I modified my ~/.profile file to erase any *.state and *session* files in ~./cache/sessions. This is the solution that worked for me. <div class="gmail_quot<blockquote class=" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div dir="ltr"> <div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 5:06 AM, Rob Ward <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:rl.ward@bigpond.com" target="_blank">rl.ward@bigpond.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Hi Folks, After having scouted around on the www for some hints as to how I can get my Dropbox to run properly I have been unable to get it to return to its original installed operation. I am running (X)Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS, have found the Dropbox Icon has disappeared and I can no longer use it to inspect the Dropbox folder with the Dropbox options available eg right click and copy a Dropbox share URL. At the moment this is the icon that comes and goes as I stop and start Dropbox from the command line (the red circle with a slash through it). I am running the Indicator Plugin and it has a couple of functions showing OK (Network, System, Audio all work OK), however there is no Dropbox listed in the "Indicator apps". Clicking on the red circle icon only makes a little single line shadow under it and nothing else. I have completely un-installed Dropbox and then reinstalled, to no avail, and also the same with remove/reinstall Indicator. I have disconnected this machine from Dropbox via their website on another machine, and then re-linked it again and no improvement. I have tried various command line statements eg dropbox stop and then dropbox start as well as sudo dropbox stop && DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="" dropbox start which did a restart and removed the red circle but did not replace it with the proper Drop box icon. When I ran the Dropbox application from the Applications Menu the red circle icon returned. <div> As I am not a high level 'Nix user I have quickly hit a brick wall. If anyone could help me debug my set up, or offer suggestions as to what I could try, I would be very grateful. Rob -- Rob Ward Lake Tyers Beach, 3909 <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.laketyersbeach.net.au" target="_blank">Lake Tyers Beach Website</a> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.laketyersbeach.net.au/XP2XU.html" target="_blank">XP to XUbuntu</a> Command line History: rob@DesktopUbuntu:~$ sudo dropbox stop && DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="" dropbox start sudo: unable to resolve host DesktopUbuntu.WORKGROUP [sudo] password for rob: Dropbox isn't responding! Dropbox isn't responding! Dropbox is already running! rob@DesktopUbuntu:~$ sudo dropbox stop && DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="" dropbox start sudo: unable to resolve host DesktopUbuntu.WORKGROUP Dropbox daemon stopped. Starting Dropbox...Dropbox isn't running! Done! rob@DesktopUbuntu:~$ dropbox startDropbox is already running! rob@DesktopUbuntu:~$ </div> </div> -- xubuntu-users mailing list <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a></a> </blockquote> </div> </div> <div class="gmail_extra">I've had success running the commands separately - ~$ dropbox stop </div> <div class="gmail_extra"> (wait for dropbox to stop, icon should disappear altogether) </div> <div class="gmail_extra">~$ DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="" dropbox start </div> <div class="gmail_extra">Dave </div> <div class="gmail_extra"> </div> </div> -- xubuntu-users mailing list <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a> </div> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> </blockquote> </body> </html>