• Registered: 2009-05-02
  • Posts: 10

Topic: dropboxd failing in 9.04

Hi,

I've just installed a fresh installation of #! 9.04 (using the unofficial live cd since the minimal cd didn't work for me (it hung for ever at detecting network hardware)). The problem I'm having is that I can't get Dropbox to work. I have followed this guide in the wiki: http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/howto/h … up_dropbox but when I log in, the dropbox icon appears in the tray for some seconds and then dissappears. If I try to run it manually from the terminal, I get this:

emil@emil-crunhtop:~$ .dropbox-dist/dropboxd
The program 'dropbox' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadIDChoice (invalid resource ID chosen for this connection)'.
  (Details: serial 637 error_code 14 request_code 53 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

Am I missing some dependencies or are things working differently in 9.04?

  • Registered: 2009-05-02
  • Posts: 10

Re: dropboxd failing in 9.04

Okay, it works now. Guess some dependency was pulled when installing other packages.

  • From: California, USA
  • Registered: 2008-11-29
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Re: dropboxd failing in 9.04

What did you do to fix it?

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  • Registered: 2009-05-02
  • Posts: 10

Re: dropboxd failing in 9.04

I think the only thing I did was to install virtualbox via apt-get, but I can't promise I didn't mess with anything else on the way. Could fire up a virtual machine later to test my theory.

  • Registered: 2009-07-27
  • Posts: 1

Re: dropboxd failing in 9.04

I had the same error message when entering

~> dropbox start

Once I made a folder called 'Dropbox' in my home directory it worked like a charm.