[solved] Dropboxd cannot startup

[JROCK2004]

Trying to install dropboxd and getting an error about startup. It talks about it possibly being a permission issue. Here is the log file

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pid:    5366
ppid:   3964
uid:    1000
user_info:  ('jcostanzo', 'x', 1000, 1000, '', '/home/jcostanzo', '/bin/bash')
effective_user_info:    ('jcostanzo', 'x', 1000, 1000, '', '/home/jcostanzo', '/bin/bash')
euid:   1000
gid:    1000
egid:   1000
group_info: ('jcostanzo', 'x', 1000, [])
effective_group_info:   ('jcostanzo', 'x', 1000, [])
appdata:    u'/home/jcostanzo/.dropbox'
    mode=040700 uid=1000    gid=1000
parent  mode=040755 uid=1000    gid=1000
dropbox_path:   u'/home/jcostanzo/Dropbox'
    not found
parent  mode=040755 uid=1000    gid=1000
HOME:   /home/jcostanzo
tempdir:    '/tmp'
    mode=041777 uid=0   gid=0
parent  mode=040755 uid=0   gid=0
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "__main__dropbox__.py", line 843, in main_startup
  File "__main__dropbox__.py", line 499, in run
  File "__main__dropbox__.py", line 336, in activate_translation
  File "common_util/i18n.py", line 131, in activate_translation
  File "common_util/i18n.py", line 172, in system_lang_code
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'split'

Any thoughts?

[andrewthomas]

I was having this problem and what I did was to get the latest version

http://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/17/dropbox- ... 2.0.tar.gz
http://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/17/dropbox- ... 2.0.tar.gz

then extract the file, delete ~/.dropbox and ~/.dropbox-dist then move the extracted .dropbox-dist directory to ~/.dropbox-dist and

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start dropbox -i

in the terminal and it started right up.

[JROCK2004]

That worked. The link was not correct but the command worked perfectly. Thanks