Dropbox doesn't start after download his deamon because a Nvidia lib

Hi, I have just found, after 3 days, that
Dropbox try to load a DRI lib
that don’t work with NVidia proprietary driver.

I hope that this solution can give more visibility now for many people needs that.
Simple solution is to rename lol!
~/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-19.4.12/libGL.so.1

The problem is hide near some layer of software and no logs can help and also delete config dirs or change version can’t help.

Just readed here:
https://www.braz.pro.br/blog/conhecimento-linux/erro-error-dropbox-segmentation-fault-kde5/?PageSpeed=noscript
about
DRI error with SIGSEGV
and “Fatal Python error” with Segmentation signal
when Dropbox try to load “swrast_dri.so”

The problem seem to relay into KDE5 with NVIDIA drivers.

PS: Please share the problem / workaround on Dropbox site because I try to write there but seem that I have to less power to do this.

The day after Dropbox restart to not start!

In many forum people say about swrast_dri.so because in debug is the last line before Dropbox crash.
But the real problem is a step before in
~/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-19.4.12/libGL.so.1

You can delete / rename that file
or create a link to the correct file in the system as
→ /usr/X11R6/lib64/libGL.so.1

But you have to redo every time dropbox updates itself. (without advertise)>:(

Today I realize that this dropbox directory was changed in
~/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-9001.1002.75
NewVersion!

I suspect that one possible “definitive” solution is to
change the autostart of Dropbox
from the standard that autoupdates
to simply start deamon in current version: “dropboxd”:wink:

Thank you very much for your insight. In my case, after a whole afternoon lost checking what was going on, I came up with your post.
Great.:slight_smile: