[Mageia-discuss] Dropbox GUI not working in Mageia (solution)

Sat Mar 10 12:45:01 CET 2012

Am 09.03.2012 13:19, schrieb Anssi Hannula:
+> Hi all!
+>
+> Short version: rm ~/.dropbox-dist/libz.so.1
+FWIW, has been reported together with that solution in the forums:
+https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=127
+>
+> Long version:
+>
+> A year or two back the Dropbox GUI (i.e. the traybar icon and the
+> settings disalog) stopped working in Mandriva, and the situation has
+> persisted on Mageia as well.
+>
+> I have recently investigated the issue with the help of Dropbox Support,
+> and the root cause of the issue is that Dropbox bundles an old libz.so.1
+> which gets used instead of our libz.so.1. The problem doesn't affect
+> most other distributions because we are using the "--enable-libxml2"
+> build option of fontconfig, which makes it build against libxml2 instead
+> of libexpat, and our libxml2 requires zlib 1.2.3.4+, while dropbox ships
+> zlib 1.2.3.3.
+>
+> The Dropbox developers are now aware of the issue and will fix it in a
+> future version. In the meantime, you can just remove the libz.so.1 file
+> from your ~/.dropbox-dist directory, and the GUI will start to work.
+> Note that it may reappear (Dropbox does automatic upgrades) later, and
+> if the issue isn't fixed properly by then, you need to rm it again.
+>
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