[Mageia-dev] dropbox daemon starting issue

Wed Mar 23 10:04:51 CET 2011

Works fine here. I use it with kfilebox.
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+2011/3/23 L B <luke.b3103 at googlemail.com>:
+> 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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+
+-- 
+A. Kaaber
+