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I spent some time this morning trying to designate an ext4 partition as my Dropbox sync location, but Dropbox kept rejecting my ext4 partition. This related question: Dropbox: ext4 isn't ext4 offered some suggestions but at some point the Dropbox icon disappeared from my system tray.

Dropbox is running -- I created a new text file and it syncs to another Dropbox instance promptly, but without the tray icon I can't open the preferences and if I cant open the preferences I can't designate a new sync location.

There are a lot of questions that seem related, but no so far none of the solutions work.

As suggested in several answers, I ran dropbox stop && DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="" dropbox start which doesn't seem to have made a difference -- still no system tray icon. It did return two warnings which seem relevant:

(dropbox:3946): libappindicator-WARNING **: 19:05:47.t941: Unable to get the session bus: The given address is empty
(dropbox:3946): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: 19:05:47.941: Unable to get session bus: The given address is empty

What can I do with this libappindicator-WARNING? Or is there a way to pull up the Dropbox preferences window without the system tray icon? I'm on 18.04, running Gnome. dropbox status reports that Dropbox is up to date.

Amanda
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  • What is your desktop environment (GNOME, KDE, MATE, Xfce)? – N0rbert Oct 28 '18 at 07:55
  • added it. Gnome. – Amanda Oct 28 '18 at 16:01
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    Two wild guesses, 1) look for a config file to edit manually in a text editor (look in ~/config/...) or failing that try 2) test for additional command options by typing dropbox in terminal and double-tapping the Tab key to see if anything is suggested. Unlikely but this has saved me before when trying to discover random CLI options. – Tom Brossman Oct 28 '18 at 19:02

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I wound up running Software Updater and restarting, which restored the system tray icon.

I'm slightly annoyed that that's what worked but I guess the moral of the story is: check for software updates before you tear your hair out.

Amanda
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