Comment 1 for bug 1270116

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:01:39AM -0000, Bouke Bunnik wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Ubuntu 13.10
> nautilus-dropbox 1.4.0-3ubuntu0.13.10.1
>
> I recently updated to ubuntu 13.10 and found that I had no dropbox icon; Upon looking,
> it turned out to be because drobox was not running. If I start it via:
> dropbox start -i
> I get:
> --
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "dropbox/client/main.py", line 13, in <module>
> File "autogen_explicit_imports.py", line 13, in <module>
> File "ui/common/selective_sync.py", line 6, in <module>
> File "arch/__init__.py", line 28, in <module>
> File "arch/linux/tracing.py", line 8, in <module>
> File "hard_trace.py", line 6, in <module>
> File "client_api/connection_hub.py", line 21, in <module>
> File "client_api/kv_connection.py", line 23, in <module>
> File "pylinux/__init__.py", line 71, in <module>
> File "cffi/api.py", line 311, in verify
> File "dropbox/overrides.py", line 398, in load_library
> File "cffi/verifier.py", line 69, in load_library
> File "cffi/verifier.py", line 154, in _load_library
> File "cffi/vengine_cpy.py", line 124, in load_library
> VerificationError: importing '<HOME>/pylinux/__pycache__/_cffi__xa0c4f46bx1d95b4de.so': No module named _cffi__xa0c4f46bx1d95b4de
> --
> (with <HOME> the location of my home directory).
>
> debian bug #734628 describes the same issue, and also a solution:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=734628#10

As I mentioned in the Debian bug report when I closed[1] the bug, there's
nothing much we can do here. The problem lies in the proprietary bits of the
code, so this is Dropbox's problem to fix.

You can also resolve the issue by doing dpkg --purge nautilus-dropbox, and then
reinstalling it, or apt-get install --reinstall --purge nautilus-dropbox.

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=734628#15

  status wontfix

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Kind regards,
Loong Jin