Wow, many thanks!
Dropbox have for years not worked on my wifes laptop. Now I renamed that file (instead of deleting) and it worked - almost;
it started OK, system tray icon was visible and indicated it was syncing, its menu worked, dropbox site saw the client, wanted to sync 30 files, but it did not actually sync nor update itself for some minutes. This was the old version 14.4.19.
I then stopped it, removed ~/.dropbox-dist/ and downloaded the latest version. I got it from
http://www.dropboxforum.com click Beta testers, and found a couple hours old "Stable Build 40.4.46" with a download link
https://clientupdates.dropboxstatic.com ... .46.tar.gz I unpacked it in ~ , creating ~/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-40.4.46
Tested it as it was, but no icon nor sync, so I stopped it and again
renamed /.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-40.4.46/libdrm.so.2 (prepended it "__RENAMED__") started it and it was all OK: syncing fully, icon working
Really puzzleing that it works on some systems, not on some othersOn my desktop it have now updated itself to same version and still runs with original files.
Both computers have SSD as sda, with "msdos" partition table, use LVM and LUKS, both are over two year old 64 bit cauldrons now following mga6, both runs Plasma, have Intel CPU...
Differences i can think of Desktop / Laptop:
CPU: i7 / Core2Duo
GPU: Nvidia(proprietary driver) / ATI
Other hardware differences: Chipsets, network interfaces, workstation have two more disks, screen resolution, ...
Initial install: mga5(migrated in pain 2+ years ago to cauldron) / cauldron
They do not have all the same program installs, more changes and old stuff on the workstation.
I guess we can mark this thread [SOLVED] or maybe more precisely [WORKAROUND]
Mandriva since 2006, Mageia 2011 at home & work. Thinkpad T40, T43, T400, T510, Dell M4400, M6300, Acer Aspire 7. Workstation using LVM, LUKS, VirtualBox, BOINC