Dropbox, mouse, and chrome settings not saved. And a word on the Log Out options

[torreydale]

I've done the uninstall and reinstall procedure you suggested, and nothing happened.  So I opened up a terminal and typed in the following:

Code:

torrey@tdw:~$ dropbox status
Dropbox isn't running!
torrey@tdw:~$ dropbox start
Starting Dropbox...Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "dropbox/client/main.py", line 37, in <module>
  File "dropbox/client/aggregation.py", line 17, in <module>
  File "dropbox/sqlite3_helpers.py", line 21, in <module>
  File "dropbox/fatal_db_exception.py", line 1, in <module>
  File "arch/__init__.py", line 28, in <module>
  File "arch/linux/util.py", line 52, in <module>
  File "dropbox/url_info.py", line 19, in <module>
  File "dropbox/i18n.py", line 31, in <module>
  File "babel/__init__.py", line 33, in <module>
  File "pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3032, in <module>
  File "pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 933, in subscribe
  File "pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3032, in <lambda>
  File "pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2573, in activate
  File "pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2667, in insert_on
  File "pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2697, in check_version_conflict
  File "pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2566, in _get_metadata
  File "pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1589, in get_metadata_lines
  File "pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1581, in get_metadata
  File "pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1692, in _get
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/dropbox/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-3.6.7/futures-2.1.3-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/top_level.txt'
     

^CTraceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 1436, in <module>
    ret = main(sys.argv)
  File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 1425, in main
    result = commands[argv](argv[i+1:])
  File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 1273, in start
    if not start_dropbox():
  File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 757, in start_dropbox
    time.sleep(interval)
KeyboardInterrupt
torrey@tdw:~$ sudo dropbox status
[sudo] password for torrey:
Dropbox isn't running!
torrey@tdw:~$ sudo dropbox start
Starting Dropbox...Dropbox isn't running!
Done!
torrey@tdw:~$
(Thunar:7921): IBUS-WARNING **: The owner of /home/torrey/.config/ibus/bus is not root!
torrey@tdw:~$
torrey@tdw:~$
torrey@tdw:~$
torrey@tdw:~$
torrey@tdw:~$
torrey@tdw:~$
torrey@tdw:~$
torrey@tdw:~$
torrey@tdw:~$
torrey@tdw:~$
torrey@tdw:~$ dropbox status
Dropbox isn't running!
torrey@tdw:~$

But the Dropbox indicator would show up in the panel at that point.  The Thunar File Manager would open to the Dropbox folder, and I would get a popup saying "Failed to open directory "Dropbox".  Permission Denied.

All this is refreshing my memory on why I eventually installed Dropbox from the Dropbox.com website.

By the way, you mentioned Suspend and Hibernate are notoriously faulty with Ubuntu and it's ongoing.  Any word on what I mentioned about getting the black screen when using the Log Out option?