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issue with Dropbox connection after installe hplip 3.15.4

Asked by philippe benaben

Computer : ubuntu 14.04 and 14.10

After installing hplib 3.15.4, dropbox doesn't work.

The dropbox daemon crash at launch. when restarting manually dropbox daemon, the error is :

IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/dropbox/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-3.6.4/futures-2.1.3-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/top_level.txt'

I have tested this on 2 computer, with ubuntu 14.04 and 14.10.

regards

Philippe

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Nico Timeo (n-timeo) said : 		#1

I am also affected by this bug with Ubutu 14.04 LTS.

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Markus Gigl (markus-u) said : 		#2

Hi

I didn't install hplip, but have the same problem since today.
(Ubuntu 14.04 LTS).

best regards
Markus

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Best Eduardo Otte Hulse (eohulse) said : 		#3

Hi,

I had the same problem, but mine is probably not related to HPLIB, since I got it when installing Dropbox after a fresh install of 14.04.
Anyway I just found in the web a solution the worked for me: https://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?pid=19926061.

Solution:

Basically, change the file permissions and rerun dropbox (changing the path of the file accordingly):
sudo chmod 644 ~/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-3.6.4/futures-2.1.3-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/top_level.txt

Best regards,
Eduardo

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Markus Gigl (markus-u) said : 		#4

Hi Eduardo,

it works :-)

merci, thank you, danke :-))

best regards

Markus

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Nico Timeo (n-timeo) said : 		#5

I solved changing the file permissions in this way (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS):
sudo chmod 644 /var/lib/dropbox/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-3.6.4/futures-2.1.3-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/top_level.txt

Thank you very much! :-)

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philippe benaben (philippe-benaben) said : 		#6

Thanks Eduardo Otte Hulse, that solved my question.

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philippe benaben (philippe-benaben) said : 		#7

That solved my question
Thank you