Virtualbox upgrade hanging on Dropbox
I was upgrading Virtualbox on an XP host the other day and it seemed to stall toward the end. I hit “Cancel” and nothing happened, but when I logged off it politely rolled back its changes and quit. I tried it again, same thing. Then I realized I had dropbox running, closed it, and the upgrade carried on to completion. I’m guessing this is because virtualbox needs to restart the network interfaces and can’t do so while dropbox has a connection open. Why dropbox would hold a connection open instead of polling periodically is beyond me. I can confirm I wasn’t syncing at the time, so this is the normal state while the dropbox client is running.
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