I am running UNR (but using the regular gnome launcher) and have DropBox installed. Since I use my laptop on the train, there is no network connectivity. However once I reconnect to a network, dropbox seems to be completely unresponsive to the fact that there is a network connection and has to be restarted (which means lots of hard drive scanning, battery usage, slowdowns, etc). Is there a way to get dropbox to reconnect automatically, or gota wait for a patch?
Edit:
Nothing special about my network configuration, pretty much out-of-the-box. Note that most of the time I connect to wifi not cable. But the problem does not change in either case.
And I forgot to mention, I usually put my computer to sleep/hibernate in between leaving home and using it on the train so it "loses" or "gains" connection on waking up.
More Edit:
I just had the problem happening again. Basically it has a network cable plugged in. Goes to sleep. On wakeup (cable still plugged in) dropbox is stuck at "connecting".
Does it still happen if you just disconnect your network cable then reconnect without suspending? If not, you may have a timing problem like the dropbox process already being suspended when the network goes down. You could try putting a script into
/etc/pm/sleep.dthat explicitly takes down the network interface before suspending, maybe with a short sleep to give dropbox time to process the event.If worse comes to worst you could always put a script in there to restart dropbox. At least then you wouldn't have to do it manually every time.
Due to lack of response I am going to assume that this is a problem with Dropbox itself and not Ubuntu.
Ubuntu One, for the record, does not suffer from this issue and disconnects/reconnects depending on the network status autimatically.