Comment 2 for bug 1016559

Also affecting me. Not a new install. Fully updated system.

Tried killing the process and then doing

    dpkg --configure nautilus-dropbox

just in case but it does the same thing but I did get a traceback when cancelling this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 1384, in <module>
    ret = main(sys.argv)
  File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 1373, in main
    result = commands[argv[i]](argv[i+1:])
  File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 806, in update
    download()
  File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 534, in download
    progress = one_chunk.next()[0]
  File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 209, in download_file_chunk
    chunk = os.read(f.fileno(), 4096)
KeyboardInterrupt
dpkg: error processing nautilus-dropbox (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script was interrupted
Errors were encountered while processing:
 nautilus-dropbox

Also tried running

    /var/lib/dpkg/info/nautilus-dropbox.postinst configure

Manually as a normal user, this also hung

Then looked at the script and ran

    dropbox update

manually. This time I got the expected dropbox installation dialog box and a gui version of the download. Which also hung at 99% !!!

htop shows me that I have two python /usr/bin/dropbox update's running, one at 90+% CPU and one at 30+% CPU. I killed them and had one more go. The result was X running at around 90% CPU and dropbox update at around 60-70% CPU.

Gave up.