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why and how to fix: ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd returns KILLED, `~/dropbox.py start` stops running within seconds
- Posted September 28, 2016
- DigitalOcean ArticlesGetting StartedUbuntu
followed this tutorial which worked until the end where Dropbox just wouldn’t stay on
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Usually
Killedsignal is when it runs out of memory. You can verify that by checkingsyslogfiles. It is located at/var/log/syslogwhich you can open with favorite text editor:In this file, search for
Out Of Memorykiller warnings/errors. If you find any for it, that means your Droplet doesn’t have enough RAM memory to run it.To fix it you can upgrade your Droplet or add swap as a free variant.