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I just installed Dropbox using urpmi command and it seems to install okay but when I run dropbox, I never see it listed in Nautilus file browser. Any idea what's going on with it? I do have the Tint2 panel installed and no icon there either. Dropbox never did ask me about my DB account information.

Thnx.

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[speden@sappy ~]$ dropbox status
Dropbox isn't responding!
[speden@sappy ~]$ dropbox start -i
Dropbox isn't running!
Dropbox is already running!
[speden@sappy ~]$

I'm confused by the above commands. This is the 64 bit version also.
The ps ax command show:
12249 ? Ssl 0:04 /home/speden/.dropbox-dist/dropbox

Any ideas/suggestions?

Thnx.

For what it is worth.
Had same issues here.
Installation was going without any problem.
Output in terminal gave the same messages: Dropbox isn't running! etc.
Don't know exactly what made it happen to work.
But somehow i remember, i had to perform the "dropbox start -i"-command as user.
Before doing this, i removed the dropbox-directory from my /home/user-directory.

Hope it gives you some idea.

I did install with the dropbox start -i command and it seems to have downloaded something. It never ask about my dropbox sign in info. I'm not sure why it's not working. It did work with Mandriva 2010.2 and Gnome DE. I have Gnome installed on Mageia, maybe I'll log into it and see if it works. Currently I've been using pure Openbox.

Thnx.

Two weeks ago, I had a problem with Dropbox not starting. Here are some things I did and got it runnning: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id= ... ost-310135

I have KDE and i added in autostart (from system settings) the script to run dropbox (~/.dropbox-dist/dropbox) and everything works fine

I too have no tray icon But rest seem to work

Leaving this for now... Might try Kdropbox viewtopic.php?f=10&t=219 and viewtopic.php?f=7&t=555

Below: Some may benefit from reading how i got it working (except that icon) from command line:

Installed package nautilus-dropbox, and In KDE Konsole as user

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:[morgan@svarten ~]$ dropbox start -1

(first tried without -i and it responded to add -i to install. Later i found dropbox item in KDE launch menu Internet>more... and it actually issues "dropbox start -i" /edit)

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[morgan@svarten ~]$ dropbox autostart

so it starts at login (and later i found KDE control panel autostart contain "dropbox start -i" too )
(and i rebooted computer... but probably need just to start dropbox instead.)

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[morgan@svarten ~]$ dropbox status
Waiting to be linked to an account...
[morgan@svarten ~]$ dropbox start
To link this computer to a dropbox account, visit the following url:
https://www.dropbox.com/cli_link?host_id= -deleted-

doing so using firefox, adding my computer svarten

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[morgan@svarten ~]$ dropbox stop
Dropbox daemon stopped.
[morgan@svarten ~]$ dropbox start
Starting Dropbox...Done!
[morgan@svarten ~]$ dropbox status
Downloading 833 files...
Downloading file list...
[morgan@svarten ~]$ dropbox status
Downloading 794 files (0.2 KB/sec, 14 days left)

I also see ~/Dropbox have been created and files are appearing
And in Nautilus i can right click Dropbox folder and select to browse by web site
So almost everything works, but:

Problem:
I am missig the dropbox icon at bottom of screen -So i have no status indicator except by issuing "dropbox status"

More problems.
To have it start i had to in ~/.kde4/Autostart make a program start link
But it still fail connecting, so i issue dropbox stop, then dropbox start
Easy to forget and i end up having unsynced files and differently edited versions if i forget...
Needs a script that waits before starting, or better checks output of dropbox status and stops&starts it if it is "connecting" for more than a minute. And pops up warning dialog.

Hm, no today it manage to start before kde performs the autostart group, but never suceed connecting unless i stop it and then restart it.
So now i have a program start link in autostart with the following execution line:

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sleep 3; dropbox stop ; sleep 1;  dropbox start ; sleep 10 ;  dropbox status ; sleep 30 ; dropbox status

And set to not close the terminal window automatically, so i can see it works.

If for Mageia 1, maybe you just want to enable the network-auth¹ service so that the boot process waits for the
network to be up, in that case there's already network connection when KDE starts?

¹: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2009.1_Notes#New_services

Thank you for the idea.
However i prefer the computer to start also when network is down.

This issue has been simmering a while. Fortunately Kamil has posted a workaround on bugzilla
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3641

After installing nautilus-dropbox and starting for the first time which causes the proprietary dropbox daemon to be downloaded, run this command in a terminal

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rm -f ~/.dropbox-dist/libz.so.1

Then restart dropbox

Apparently the problem is due to an incompatibility between libxml provided by Mageia1 and libz which is bundled in with the dropbox-daemon. Mandriva 2011 has the same problem.

djennings wrote:This issue has been simmering a while. Fortunately Kamil has posted a workaround on bugzilla
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3641

After installing nautilus-dropbox and starting for the first time which causes the proprietary dropbox daemon to be downloaded, run this command in a terminal

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rm -f ~/.dropbox-dist/libz.so.1

Then restart dropbox

Apparently the problem is due to an incompatibility between libxml provided by Mageia1 and libz which is bundled in with the dropbox-daemon. Mandriva 2011 has the same problem.

I just tried it and it does work. But what happens if I reboot, will I need to stop and rm the file again and restart dropbox?

Just curious.

Thnx.

@ Djennings: Thank you for the tip
I removed the file, stopped and started dropbox, and got the icon.
And yes, the icon also pops up after reboot.

It's worth marking this thread as [Solved].

Fixed the problem for me.

Mageia 1 - Gnome desktop 32bit.