28.4.09

Get Dropbox to Work on Jaunty Jackalope

I did a fresh install yesterday, and I got a problem on installing the latest Dropbox. The error was like this,
The program 'dropbox' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadIDChoice (invalid resource ID chosen for this connection)'.
(Details: serial 734 error_code 14 request_code 53 minor_code 0)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

To get it working, I did the following,
1. Install Dropbox's nautilus and daemon package


2. Download latest build of Dropbox (as of April 28, 2009), here


3. Issued the following command on the terminal
cd ~

rm -r .dropbox-dist/

tar -xzf dropbox-lnx.x86-0.6.510.tar.gz


4. Restart nautilus (I did a logout)

and voila! Dropbox is now working!

Credit goes to Adam Michael Roach, I modified it to fit the current versions and releases.

3 comments:

  1. Anonymous18.5.09

    did not work for me -:(

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  2. Anonymous25.5.09

    Thanks, that worked for me!

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  3. @1st poster
    make sure that your video drivers are not conflicting, since i had experience that they do affect the installation of dropbox...also try to start Dropbox by "dropbox start -sync"

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