Follow wiki to install dropbox on gnome3 system and start with systemctl. After dropbox syncs drop stops and starts at 3 second intervals. If I disable dropbox with systemctl and 'Start Dropbox on system startup' is selected dropbox will start and then work normally. However I would like to do it the systemd way. Happy to submit more data if needed. journal entries demonstrating 3 second interval when started with systemd: Nov 07 10:26:10 go2 systemd[1]: Started Dropbox. Nov 07 10:26:14 go2 systemd[1]: dropbox@eugene.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=9/KILL Nov 07 10:26:14 go2 systemd[1]: dropbox@eugene.service: Unit entered failed state. Nov 07 10:26:14 go2 systemd[1]: dropbox@eugene.service: Failed with result 'signal'. Nov 07 10:26:14 go2 systemd[1]: dropbox@eugene.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart. Nov 07 10:26:14 go2 systemd[1]: Stopped Dropbox. This is on an ~amd64 system.
Portage 2.2.23 (python 2.7.10-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/gnome/systemd, gcc-4.9.3, glibc-2.22-r1, 4.3.0 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-4.3.0-x86_64-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_CPU_N3540_@_2.16GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 3925744 total, 2592100 free KiB Swap: 4191228 total, 4191228 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Sat, 07 Nov 2015 14:30:01 +0000 sh bash 4.3_p42 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.25.1 p1.1) 2.25.1 app-shells/bash: 4.3_p42::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.22.0::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.10::gentoo, 3.4.3::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.3.2-r1::gentoo dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.29::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.18.3::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.9::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13::gentoo, 2.69-r1::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6-r1::gentoo, 1.14.1::gentoo, 1.15::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.25.1-r1::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 4.9.3::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8::gentoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6-r1::gentoo 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Does this still affect the versions in ::gentoo? We now only have 5.3.18 and 6.3.13 FWIW I am using systemd+dropbox here and it appears to be working fine