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I am running Dropbox on a Debian server. Once I start Dropbox using 

python dropbox.py start

it stops working after a while and 

python dropbox.py status

reports:

Dropbox isn't running!

I have no clue why it stops working, all I see is that while running it consumes up to 100% of the CPU.

So I was wondering: Are there any Dropbox log files and if so, where can I find them?

Ueli Hofstetter
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3 Answers3

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As described here you could install the Dropbox daemon as a system service, which then logs into journalctl.

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I couldn't find the Dropbox log file location but the following workaround maybe useful.

Check your locale by the following command:

$ sudo locale

LANG=en_IN.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_IN
LC_CTYPE="en_IN.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_IN.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_IN.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_IN.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_IN.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_IN.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_IN.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_IN.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_IN.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_IN.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_IN.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_IN.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

Your locale maybe any result other than the above. As dopbox doesn't work well with some specific locales try to change it to another one preferably en_US.UTF-8 or en_GB.UTF-8

To find available locale on you system try the following command:

$ sudo locale a

And to change the locale use the following command:

$ sudo update-locale LANG=LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE
OR
$ sudo localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8

After successful start maybe you could change back to your desired locale.

Ashkan Mohammadi
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Dropbox may be logging into the /tmp folder by default, and when navigating there, you may see files with a name like dropbox-antifreeze-Z8o8vO in that location.

In my experience, the contents of that log file may only indicate the startup/exit status of the dropboxd process, and other log information appears to be something that's not written to disk, but is communicated to the dropbox.py script when it communicates with the dropboxd process through the socket file at ~/.dropbox/command_socket

Eddie
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