[Mageia-dev] dropbox daemon starting issue

[Andres Kaaber]

Works fine here. I use it with kfilebox.

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