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Dropbox won't start anymore

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Since a while, 2 weeks, Dropbox does not startup anymore on my laptop running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with GNOME shell.

When I run dropbox start -i in the console I get the following output.

  Starting Dropbox...Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 1387, in <module>

    ret = main(sys.argv)

  File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 1376, in main

    result = commands[argv[i]](argv[i+1:])

  File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 1247, in start

    if not start_dropbox():

  File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 731, in start_dropbox

    stderr=sys.stderr, stdout=f, close_fds=True)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 679, in __init__

    errread, errwrite)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1249, in _execute_child

    raise child_exception

  OSError: [Errno 8] Exec format error

I already removed Dropbox and reinstalled it. What should I do to fix this?

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answered 2 Years ago fulild · Accepted Answer

Try to reinstall dropbox.

First open a terminal and type the following to remove dropbox:

sudo apt-get clean

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get --purge remove nautilus-dropbox

sudo apt-get --purge autoremove

Now type the next commands in sequence to install dropbox.

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 5044912E

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main"

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install nautilus-dropbox

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