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