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xsigik

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Registered: 2011-04-10

Posts: 14

Dropbox and KDE

Hi,
I worked with Dropbox in KDE 4.7 and everything works fine. But after upgrade to KDE 4.8, there are problems.
At first, when Dropbox starts after log in, its status is still "Conecting..." - if I quit dropbox and start it again, it is ok.
When I want to copy some file to Dropbox directory and create public URL, error message "kde4-config not found" occurs, but I have it in /usr/bin/kde4-config.
I found that it could be problem with sqlite3-tools, but in Archlinux there is no sqlite3-tools but only sqlite3 and I have it.

Dropbox 1.2.51
KDE 4.8.00

Any advice?

Last edited by xsigik (2012-02-02 13:37:38)

yaffare

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Registered: 2011-12-29

Posts: 71

Re: Dropbox and KDE

With KDE you could try

yaourt -S kfilebox

First uninstall dropbox, stop dropbox daemon, remove daemon (if added in rc.conf), as kfilebox comes with own daemon

Last edited by yaffare (2012-02-02 15:28:02)

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xsigik

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Registered: 2011-04-10

Posts: 14

Re: Dropbox and KDE

Thank you for your advice, but there are exact same problems with kfilebox...

yaffare

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Registered: 2011-12-29

Posts: 71

Re: Dropbox and KDE

Do you have an @ before network in your dameons array in rc.conf. if so try removing the @.

did you try renaming ~/.dropbox folder. (of course this would delete all your preferences) and ~/.dropbox-dist and reinstalling it?

If thats not gonna work, the only thing is writing a workaround, like those people:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=129678
Fixing Dropbox startup issues

Seems that many other people on various distribution have same problem.

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xsigik

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Registered: 2011-04-10

Posts: 14

Re: Dropbox and KDE

Problem with "kde4-config not found" is solved. There was some bug in PKGBUILD, after I built it from source, it was ok.
Problem with Connecting... still occurs, modified daemon from Wiki didn't help.

cfr

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From: Cymru

Registered: 2011-11-27

Posts: 7,168

Re: Dropbox and KDE

I have this problem, too, and I'm using kfilebox. As you say, it did work and now it doesn't. I'm using wicd rather than network and I don't background it in rc.conf.

In any case, this is a laptop, dropbox needs to cope with non-availability of a connection, changes of network etc.

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