Works fine here. I use it with kfilebox. 2011/3/23 L B <luke.b3...@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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