Greate news. I´ve been trying to solve this problem from time to time, obviously without success. Thanks.
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Claire <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/03/12 12:19, Anssi Hannula wrote: > >> Hi all! >> >> Short version: rm ~/.dropbox-dist/libz.so.1 >> >> Long version: >> >> A year or two back the Dropbox GUI (i.e. the traybar icon and the >> settings disalog) stopped working in Mandriva, and the situation has >> persisted on Mageia as well. >> >> I have recently investigated the issue with the help of Dropbox Support, >> and the root cause of the issue is that Dropbox bundles an old libz.so.1 >> which gets used instead of our libz.so.1. The problem doesn't affect >> most other distributions because we are using the "--enable-libxml2" >> build option of fontconfig, which makes it build against libxml2 instead >> of libexpat, and our libxml2 requires zlib 1.2.3.4+, while dropbox ships >> zlib 1.2.3.3. >> >> The Dropbox developers are now aware of the issue and will fix it in a >> future version. In the meantime, you can just remove the libz.so.1 file >> from your ~/.dropbox-dist directory, and the GUI will start to work. >> Note that it may reappear (Dropbox does automatic upgrades) later, and >> if the issue isn't fixed properly by then, you need to rm it again. >> >> > Thats great news, thankyou Anssi! >
