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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20120309/32d20433/attachment.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20120309/32d20433/attachment.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b8d15a6c2 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20120309/32d20433/attachment.html @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +Greate news. I´ve been trying to solve this problem from time to time, obviously without success. Thanks.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Claire <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eeeemail@gmail.com">eeeemail@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> +<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 09/03/12 12:19, Anssi Hannula wrote:<br> +<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> +Hi all!<br> +<br> +Short version: rm ~/.dropbox-dist/libz.so.1<br> +<br> +Long version:<br> +<br> +A year or two back the Dropbox GUI (i.e. the traybar icon and the<br> +settings disalog) stopped working in Mandriva, and the situation has<br> +persisted on Mageia as well.<br> +<br> +I have recently investigated the issue with the help of Dropbox Support,<br> +and the root cause of the issue is that Dropbox bundles an old libz.so.1<br> +which gets used instead of our libz.so.1. The problem doesn't affect<br> +most other distributions because we are using the "--enable-libxml2"<br> +build option of fontconfig, which makes it build against libxml2 instead<br> +of libexpat, and our libxml2 requires zlib 1.2.3.4+, while dropbox ships<br> +zlib 1.2.3.3.<br> +<br> +The Dropbox developers are now aware of the issue and will fix it in a<br> +future version. In the meantime, you can just remove the libz.so.1 file<br> +from your ~/.dropbox-dist directory, and the GUI will start to work.<br> +Note that it may reappear (Dropbox does automatic upgrades) later, and<br> +if the issue isn't fixed properly by then, you need to rm it again.<br> +<br> +</blockquote> +<br></div></div> +Thats great news, thankyou Anssi!<br> +</blockquote></div><br> |