[Mageia-dev] dropbox daemon sync issue - doesnt install or start correctly

Tue Mar 22 10:02:54 CET 2011

hello everyone,
+
+i've been testing the mageia alpha-1 and -2 and i stumbled over a weird
+behaviour of my lovely dropbox client.
+(dropbox is a sync service) the client is available for fedora and ubuntu
+and as tar archive for compilation.
+
+the package as the comiled sources don't do very much, they only download
+and install the actual dropbox daemon which is closed source.
+it works fine on ubuntu but not on mageia :/
+
+the installed menuitem doesn't do anything and the console application is
+just acting weird.
+
+the command list:
+$ dropbox
+Dropbox command-line interface
+
+commands:
+
+Note: use dropbox help <command> to view usage for a specific command.
+
+ status       get current status of the dropboxd
+ help         provide help
+ puburl       get public url of a file in your dropbox
+ stop         stop dropboxd
+ running      return whether dropbox is running
+ start        start dropboxd
+ filestatus   get current sync status of one or more files
+ ls           list directory contents with current sync status
+ autostart    automatically start dropbox at login
+ exclude      ignores/excludes a directory from syncing
+
+i think the daemon wasn't installed correctly ( although i tried it several
+times ) because every command just throws errors.
+e.g.:
+$ dropbox start
+Dropbox isn't responding!
+Dropbox is already running!
+
+
+$ dropbox filestatus
+Traceback (most recent call last):
+  File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 1242, in <module>
+    ret = main(sys.argv)
+  File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 1231, in main
+    result = commands[argv[i]](argv[i+1:])
+  File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 604, in newmeth
+    return meth(*n, **kw)
+  File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 860, in filestatus
+    status = dc.icon_overlay_file_status(path=fp).get(u'status',
+[u'unknown'])[0]
+  File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 575, in __spec_command
+    return self.send_command(unicode(name), kw)
+  File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 533, in send_command
+    ok = self.__readline() == u"ok"
+  File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 509, in __readline
+    raise DropboxCommand.BadConnectionError()
+__main__.BadConnectionError
+
+or my favorite:
+
+$ dropbox start --install
+Dropbox isn't running!
+Dropbox is already running!
+
+does anybody maybe have the same problems or any solution hints for this?
+
+thank you.
+
+lb
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