Nixpkgs: Dropbox fails to start since update 62.4.103

Created on 3 Dec 2018  路  3Comments  路  Source: NixOS/nixpkgs

Dropbox fails to start on NixOS after update 63.4.103. After running dropbox start I got an error message suggesting a permission problem. However checking the error log the line which seemed to be relevant was the following one: ImportError: libglapi.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.

I fixed this problem by setting the correct LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable pointing to one of my system's libglapi.so.0 inside ~/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-62.4.103/dropboxd/. By running again dropbox start I got a similar error complaining about a missing libxshmfence.so.1. Using the same trick I managed to solve the issue and now Dropbox starts correctly (I don't know is this is the right way to fix it, but I suspect that upcoming releases will overwrite dropboxd).

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apt install libc6 libglapi-mesa libxdamage1 libxfixes3 libxcb-glx0 libxcb-dri2-0 libxcb-dri3-0 libxcb-present0 libxcb-sync1 libxshmfence1 libxxf86vm1

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See #51328: mesa and libxshmfence need to be added.

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apt install libc6 libglapi-mesa libxdamage1 libxfixes3 libxcb-glx0 libxcb-dri2-0 libxcb-dri3-0 libxcb-present0 libxcb-sync1 libxshmfence1 libxxf86vm1

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