Hi Raphael, On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Raphael Hertzog <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 05 Dec 2011, Teemu Ikonen wrote: >> I ran dropbox start -i under tsocks, i.e. a SOCKS proxy, and the >> dropbox client download succeeded. The client can also be configured >> to use a SOCKS proxy from the GUI, so syncing now works also. > > It's weird because tsocks uses LD_PRELOAD to override the system calls > but that variable is not kept by pkexec and pkexec is a setuid program > so even ld.so should not accept to pre-load the tsocks library.
I ran 'tsocks dropbox update' as root, so pkexec was probably not involved. > Looking further I see that the message you pasted says “Downloading > Dropbox... 100%” so the download actually worked but only the > download of the signature failed (or worked but returned nothing). The failure was instantaneous, so the client was not downloaded. The downloader script probably mistook the '403 forbidden' message as a success. Best, Teemu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
