Chromebook with Crouton and Ubuntu 12.04 caja / insync integration fail

Written by James McDonald

June 13, 2014

I have a HP Chromebook with Ubuntu 12.04 running Mate Desktop and Insync Google Drive syncing software installed.

I want to be able to see the sync status of my Google drive files while in caja similar to what I can do with the working dropbox integration:

Insync should have a sync status icon when viewed in caja but doesn't due to the python fail.

Insync should have a sync status icon when viewed in caja but doesn’t due to the python fail.

The problem I am finding is the caja-python and insync-caja package isn’t working

(precise)jm@localhost:~$ sudo caja 
ImportError: could not import gobject (error was: '/usr/lib/libpyglib-2.0-python2.7.so.0: undefined symbol: _Py_ZeroStruct')

(caja:3093): Caja-Python-WARNING **: pygobject initialization failed

(caja:3093): Caja-Python-WARNING **: caja_python_init_python failed
Initializing caja-open-terminal extension
Initializing caja-image-converter extension
Initializing caja-dropbox 0.7.1

As you can see above there is an annoying error that stymies the import of the caja-python functionality and therefore the insync-caja integration doesn’t work.

I haven’t found a fix to this. However I am trying to do a distribution upgrade from Ubuntu 12.04 to 12.10 and hope this will fix the issue.

Will update this post if it does.

Update: Even after an update from Ubuntu 12.04 to 12.10 I couldn’t get the caja-python / insync integration working. I ended up installing Nautilus (sudo apt-get install nautilus) and making it the default file manager by clicking System ==> Preferences ==> Preferred Applications ==> System (Tab) and selecting “Files” for the File Manager application…

Nautilus with working Insync Google Drive Sync Icons

Nautilus with working Insync Google Drive Sync Icons

 

 

 

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