grive needs relink

[Mekaniserad Apelsin]

Whenever you run grive you get the "error":
"grive: Symbol `json_tokener_errors' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking"

$ grive --version
grive: Symbol `json_tokener_errors' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
grive version 0.2.0 Dec 26 2013 17:26:14

$ apt-cache policy grive
grive:
  Installed: 0.2.0-1.1
  Candidate: 0.2.0-1.1
  Version table:
 *** 0.2.0-1.1 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 14.04 LTS"

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[James Bowery (jabowery)]

I've had to resort to dropbox.

[Arul (aselvan)]

I tried re-authorizing with 'grive -a' but the error is still not going away.... However, sync appear to be working just fine.

Wonder what is 're-linking' mean

[Stephen Harris (mrzx4l98d4tp89jab6giohdrjqysbyjs4npz2ccq25kvjmf5h8u4cmidcko7s4tfr6ur1teuv4ju1af4klpdqp0vd87ddz5sh53mwfrw5819ohmadctcbsrykdp4exz2w0xzyv54zb4ksnirbzfvybudw577zswcymukpheqeiptvlrx87cyumfa232omr5gcyxpni3rwgnjdqw38fhshr-ubuntu-hwbqs6tox1bv6csee9psn5309v7488f3dugifm692db2xfq8n1fsz7l87835tr0q36m2p3ftwpoqoy6v6uuahmk4tf5123r12379utugp7nixw2b5j0fw109wufbidpa6fhg010vngvnksae1elj6ttg479qhn7j5kposxk190qxxxckxz8gg3ynwbwed748w80iijdix43eqe9gw0thd6)]

Also impacts 12.04.4 LTS

% grive
grive: Symbol `json_tokener_errors' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
Reading local directories
Synchronizing folders
Reading remote server file list
Detecting changes from last sync
Synchronizing files
Finished!

% cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=precise
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS"

[Bogdan Stefan (bogdan-paul-stefan)]

grive: Symbol `json_tokener_errors' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
Reading local directories

[Simon Templar (aaprez)]

Same error in Ubuntu 14.04

[Joost Ringoot (joost)]

As a workaround I suggest using the grive-tools PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~thefanclub/+archive/ubuntu/grive-tools

This one has as a plus a nice graphical interface.
I hope it won't take too long for this to be added to one of the standard Ubuntu repositories.

[Joost Ringoot (joost)]

Back draw for grive-tools: The indicator appears to sync only one way: from google-drive to local. Automatic or manual appears to make no difference: icon is changing as if it is doing a sync when you changed something locally, but when it is finished without error, nothing has changed in google-drive in the web-interface.
Grive executed from the commandline does a both way synchronisation, checked with modified files on both sides, as expected.
I don't seem able to post a bug in the griv-tools project.

[Ohadcn (ohadcn)]

can it be a dependencies problem? i had similar problem and after installing some boost stuff grive works for me.

[Peter Klausner (peter-a-klausner)]

Similar problem here with LTS14.04:

$ grive
grive: Symbol `json_tokener_errors' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
Reading local directories
Synchronizing folders
exception: /build/buildd/grive-0.2.0/libgrive/src/http/CurlAgent.cc(149): Throw in function long int gr::http::CurlAgent::ExecCurl(const string&, gr::http::Receivable*, const gr::http::Header&)

Is there a reason why the stock grive for 14.04 is still on version 0.2.0 although according to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grive/+bug/1337947 version 0.3.0 is almost 3 years old?

[Alain Maisonneuve (amaisonneuve)]

Whats the status of this defect?

Also, whats the status with the version numbers?