Re: Removing mp-fremantle-generic-pr

2011-08-14 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Paul Hartman writes: > On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Leandro sullo spippolino > wrote: >> Ciao a tutti, >> >> now my apt seems to work fine but doing a >> >> aptitude dist-upgrade >> >> it want's to remove the package in subject >> mp-fremantle-generic-pr >> >> as I can understand it is t

Re: apt-get .. segmentation fault ..

2011-05-25 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Paul Hartman writes: > Try to delete these files (make a backup of them first): > > /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin > /var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin A backup is not needed; these files are pure caches and do not contain anything that couldn't be recreated by apt-get.

Re: Weird dependency-problem...

2011-04-13 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Klaus Umbach writes: > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > upstart: PreDepends: sysvinit-utils (>= 2.86.ds1-23) or >busybox (>= 3:1.6.1.legal-1osso8) but it is not going > to be installed > > ii busybox 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso Tiny utilities

Re: My N900 has diffmo as an essential package; safe to remove?

2011-01-13 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Paul Hartman writes: > So I suppose I have two questions: > 1) What causes a package to become "essential"? The maintainer of that package has decided to make it essential and puts a "Essential: yes" field into debian/control. For Maemo, packages often become "essential" by accident when pa

Re: PR1.3 OTA update - overriding Nokia PC Suite prompt

2010-11-04 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Dawid Lorenz writes: > Case is now closed. Turned out finding out conflicting packages was as simple > as tapping "Details" button in Maemo5 update in App Manager. Ok! Another way to investigate this is to install the OS meta package with apt-get: apt-get install mp-fremantle-203-pr

Re: app manager trouble

2010-10-27 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Brian Keck writes: > I moved it to the start, & now HAM works again. Great! ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: app manager trouble

2010-10-27 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Brian Keck writes: > HAM log currently > > hildon-application-manager 2.2.65 > apt-worker exited. > Password: The prompt is suspicious. The apt-worker is started via "sudo", so maybe your sudo configuration is 'wrong'. Check /etc/sudoers /etc/sudoers.d/ and maybe run update-sudoers.

Re: PR 1.2 update and messaging

2010-05-27 Thread Marius Vollmer
"Vollmer Marius (Nokia-D/Helsinki)" writes: >> Checking the database >> /home/user/.rtcom-eventlogger/el-v1.db or el.db with sqlite3 shows the old >> messages in the database. > > Yes, and el-v1.db and el.db are _exactly_ the same size for me, so maybe > some schema conversion failed and el.db is

Re: PR 1.2 update and messaging

2010-05-27 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Aldon Hynes writes: > Okay... I've finally gotten PR 1.2 running and just about everything > seems to be working, with one exception. My SMS messages are not > showing up in Converstations. I can send and receive new SMS > messages, but they do not show up in conversations. I have the same

Re: PR1.2 is here

2010-05-26 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Dawid Lorenz writes: > I carried on with PR1.2 update and it completed without a glitch. Just out of curiosity: How long did that take? ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: FM Transmitter Sends Sounds But Not Music

2010-03-01 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Xavier Bestel writes: > So obviously my phone has a problem. It might also be your car. Radio transmitters are usually outside of your car, and the antenna might be optimized for that. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lis

Re: Not enough memory

2010-02-19 Thread Marius Vollmer
"Tamminen Eero (Nokia-D/Helsinki)" writes: > AFAIK: > > * Application manager doesn't have caches on rootfs, but on >the 2GB partition. > > * However, if you use apt _directly_, you need to tell it to >use 2GB partition for its caching like application manager does. There are a number of

Re: Problem with app manager

2010-02-05 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext daniel young writes: > ~ $ df -h > FilesystemSize Used Available Use% Mounted on > rootfs 227.9M204.0M 19.7M 91% / Thanks! So you do have enough space... I am momentarily out of clues. This is the code in question, if anyone wants to have a loo

Re: Problem with app manager

2010-02-05 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext daniel young writes: > yeah it says: > E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists.new/lock - open (2 No such > file or directory) > E: Unable to lock the list directory Ouch. Is there anything before this in the log? Maybe you are out of space on the root filesystem. Could y

Re: FW: [Pc-connectivity-devel] Help with Maemo Virtual Image Install Documentation

2010-01-07 Thread Marius Vollmer
"Tikka Jarmo (Nokia-D/Helsinki)" writes: > Hi, > >> -Original Message- >> From: Vollmer Marius (Nokia-D/Helsinki) >> Sent: 07 January, 2010 11:58 >> >> > For Maemo toolchain (Scratchbox and tools) we have not even tried to >> > provide environment that can be rebuild. >> >> Hmm, what is

Re: FW: [Pc-connectivity-devel] Help with Maemo Virtual Image Install Documentation

2010-01-07 Thread Marius Vollmer
"Tikka Jarmo (Nokia-D/Helsinki)" writes: >> I hope that people can get the Maemo SDK to work on every GNU/Linux >> distribution out there. We do not need to provide binary packages for >> each distribution, but we should provide all necessary sources etc so >> that people can get the Maemo SDK r

Re: FW: [Pc-connectivity-devel] Help with Maemo Virtual Image Install Documentation

2010-01-07 Thread Marius Vollmer
"Tikka Jarmo (Nokia-D/Helsinki)" writes: > [jot] For those who need to have also other environments in their > Linux PC than Maemo and of course those who do not happen to have any > of those specific Linux distros we support in their PC prefer using > Virtual Image over reinstalling their PC for

Maemo 5 UI Tweaks

2010-01-06 Thread Marius Vollmer
>> It is about as configurable as can be, only not using a GUI. >> See here for details: >> http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=442281&postcount=5 > > Oh, yeah, that's really user-friendly. >:-( Let's do something about this. For some time now, I wanted to write some Control Panel plugins (or si

Re: [Pc-connectivity-devel] Help with Maemo Virtual Image Install Documentation

2010-01-04 Thread Marius Vollmer
"Tikka Jarmo (Nokia-D/Helsinki)" writes: >> > We have a problem that most standard compression tools have >> > restriction about 2GB max file size. >> >> Time to post an old favorite of mine again: >> >> http://braid-game.com/news/?p=455 >> >> The first rant is about the Visual Studio 2010

Re: OS Stability

2009-12-02 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Mark writes: > What I said was that "I've never _heard_" of Windows Mobile devices > being reflashed like Linux devices. I would change that to "Maemo" devices. Linux, the kernel, is certainly not to blame for a clogged up user land, and Maemo is so different from any other existing GNU-or-

Re: Nokia developers -> WAS: bluetooth keyboards and N900

2009-12-02 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Mark writes: > Ah, the joys of industry jargon... Yep, and petty ego protectionism. (On Igor's part, just to be clear.) ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: Decision-making processes (was: Re: bluetooth keyboards and N900

2009-12-02 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Peter Flynn writes: > The problem seems to be that while some decisions are self-evident, > obvious, and uncontentious (eg "let's give the N7*/8*/9* series wireless > capability"), a few of them are so spectacularly wrong that the user > community is amazed, and because no information is a

Re: Help with Maemo Virtual Image Install Documentation

2009-11-13 Thread Marius Vollmer
"Tikka Jarmo (Nokia-D/Helsinki)" writes: >> Files: 5 >> Size: 8453907228 >> Compressed: 1572864000'" > > We have a problem that most standard compression tools have > restriction about 2GB max file size. Time to post an old favorite of mine again: http://braid-game.com/news/?p=455 Th

Re: Application Manager broken? /var/lib/apt/lists

2009-01-19 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext spencer@rbs.com" writes: > In the log I see. > /var/lib/apt/lists.new/partial is missing > > I looked for /var/lib/apt/lists but it seems somehow the filesystem is > corrupted. Once you uncorrupt your filesystem, the /var/lib/apt part is easy to fix. The directory only contains

Re: Abiword

2008-11-28 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Eero Tamminen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > ext Peter Flynn wrote: >> Dr. Nicholas Shaw wrote: >>> Hmmm... Interesting. Abiword was in my catalog and is installed on my 810 >>> (running Diablo). The current version is 2.6.4. I've had no problems. >> >> Turns out it's still in ext

Re: App-Manager failure

2008-11-24 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Ryan Abel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Didn't the Application manager log provide enough information? >> >> (And if not, what was missing from it and could you file a bug about >> that?) > > He was using Bora, so, no, but any bug filed would be WORKSFORME, so > it's a moot discussion. T

Re: Cannot install OS2008 Feature upgrade?

2008-10-21 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext [EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anybody have any meaningful advice? Switch of "Show all packages" in "Tools > Settings". That should clean up the package lists. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maem

Re: Good News - WIFI NOT Borked after Update

2008-10-20 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Luca Olivetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Touching things under $HOME shouldn't bork an upgrade. Very true. We have been discussing the uncleanliness of letting packages touch $HOME on and off for a long time already. It's no consolation for those of you who had to suffer, but "things a

Re: WiFi borked after update

2008-10-08 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext [EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 05:28:19PM +0300, Marius Vollmer wrote: >> "ext [EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Debian warns not to do an upgrade over X, be

Re: WiFi borked after update

2008-10-08 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext [EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Debian warns not to do an upgrade over X, because X will go down and > up when it is reinstalled, [...] Never happened to me, and I would expect the X packagers to be better than that. The xserver-xorg.postinst is the mother of all maintaine

Re: Fwd: WiFi borked after update

2008-10-08 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Andrew Flegg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > More information on the problem/use-case of the cross-domain package > would be useful, I think. The package domains are an effort to simulate a sane distribution on the device: in a sane distribution, a given package is available only from one sou

Re: WiFi borked after update

2008-10-08 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Dmitry S. Makovey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Marius Vollmer wrote: > >> Yes. What about making red-pill mode non-persistent: on the next start >> of the AM, it would be back in blue-pill mode. > > I think this is a good middle-ground solution fo

Re: WiFi borked after update

2008-10-08 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Denis Dimick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I agree that updating over a network should, and does work from a > "normal" Linux distro, however, I'm not sure it's going to work on > Maemo anytime soon; I'm guessing the small memory footprint prevents > some of the applications from not killing

Re: WiFi borked after update

2008-10-07 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Andrew Flegg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > True. Perhaps we (as a community) should try pushing this message > more: red-pill mode is intended as a rescue environment in the event > of b0rkage; not for every day use (even by power users)? Yes. What about making red-pill mode non-persistent

Re: WiFi borked after update

2008-10-07 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Andrew Flegg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is the reason for the two modes - one gives you the sanitised > view, one gives you everything. I fully agree with blue-pill mode for > end-users; but I don't understand why red-pill's needed: if you're a > power user, I can't imagine Hildon Ap

Re: WiFi borked after update

2008-10-07 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext [EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One colour pill is for ordinary users. They get packages that are safe > to use. > > The other is for system hackers who know what they're doing. They also > get packages that are not safe to use, in case they need them to do > things the

Re: WiFi borked after update

2008-10-07 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Dmitry S. Makovey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ryan Abel wrote: >> To anybody reading using Red Pill mode, please don't. If you aren't >> absolutely positive of what it's going to do, then you're just going >> to get yourself in trouble. You don't need it and you don't want it, >> so don't

Re: WiFi borked after update

2008-10-07 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Denis Dimick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > While I'm not sure I'm in Red Pill Mode, I did my update from the > command line over SSH; a really STUPID ting to do. On a Maemo device, yes. In general, no. Updating while logged in over the network must work in any half-serious OS. (Red-pill

Re: Which SDHC is which when using backup.

2008-10-06 Thread Marius Vollmer
Marius Vollmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "ext Hendrik Boom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> So I ask -- which is which? > > They should have different icons... the one where only the upper right > quarter of the card is exposed is the intern

Re: Which SDHC is which when using backup.

2008-10-06 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Hendrik Boom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So I ask -- which is which? They should have different icons... the one where only the upper right quarter of the card is exposed is the internal one. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org ht

Re: WiFi borked after update

2008-10-06 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Dmitry S. Makovey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I distinctly remember seeing osso* packages in the listing and I > caught a glimpse of screen when it was downloading separate > packages. It never got to Feature Upgrade. I got to that much later, > when I fixed my networking. Come to think of

Re: WiFi borked after update

2008-10-03 Thread Marius Vollmer
Eero Tamminen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > ext Marius Vollmer wrote: > >> Unlike apt-get, the AM tries to ignore broken packages so that, for >> example, a broken maemomapper installation does not prevent a OS >> upgrade. > > Um, wouldn'

Re: WiFi borked after update

2008-10-03 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Dmitry S. Makovey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, September 30, 2008 10:37, Marius Vollmer said: >> Hmm, the Application manager will first download all the needed >> packages, and only after that has happened will it start the update >> process.

Re: WiFi borked after update

2008-10-02 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Tommy Persson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I suspected I did not have enough space to install but I suppose the > reason for the failure could have been something else. There is one stupid bug in the Application manager that I suspect might be to blame for some of the failures. If you hav

Re: WiFi borked after update

2008-09-30 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Dmitry S. Makovey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Today in the morning my N800 happily announced available updates. So I > "agreed" to install them. At some point half way through WiFi connection > was interrupted so I've been left with packages in inconsistent state (I > assume) as my WiFi ca

Re: Can't Install New Apps in Diablo on N810

2008-09-10 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Rick Bilonick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I checked the log but there were no messages for packages I tried to > install. The log is not saved, it only shows what you have done just now. So I should have said that you should try to install a package and then check "Tools > Log" for more

Re: Can't Install New Apps in Diablo on N810

2008-09-10 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Rick Bilonick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] For example, I tried to install Claws. It downloads the software > but the install always fails but no info on why is given. I tried to > install several other apps - all download but fail to install. Look into "Tools > Log". There will hop

Re: Removing excess packages after Diablo upgrade

2008-08-21 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Ryan Abel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> A better option might be to just remove the osso-software-version-rx34 >> (or -rx44) package and update 'manually' with "apt-get upgrade" etc from >> then on. > > Bad plan, apt-get upgrade resulted in reboot lo and general > brokennessops for quite a f

Re: Removing excess packages after Diablo upgrade

2008-08-20 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext R. G. Newbury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > These along with many other packages (chinese-font, clink-av0, gnuchess > for example) are listed as dependencies/requirements of 'OS2008 feature > upgrade 1:4.2008.23-14'. > > Is there any way to remove this sort of restriction? (Unpack, revise

Re: apt-get vs. hildon-application-manager in Diablo

2008-08-19 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Andrew Daviel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now with Diablo there is a scheduled update that keeps flashing at me if > everything is not up-to-date. If you don't want the blinking icon, you can disable the plugin via "Control panel > Panels > Status bar > Software update notifier". > hild

Re: About Process

2008-07-14 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Zhenghe Zhang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you want to download three packages ,you will see three processes of > "/usr/lib/apt/methods/http". And if you want to download ten package > ,you will see ten processes. I don't think this is true. Apt-get will use one "http" process per serv

Re: how to put apps in 'My Selection' tab

2008-07-04 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext David Greaves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ryan Abel wrote: >> you've removed osso-software-version-rx*4 (and trust me, it was >> removed). > > Shouldn't it really be marked 'essential' then? No, if you know what you are doing, there are good reasons to remove it, or to replace it with a

Re: how to put apps in 'My Selection' tab

2008-07-04 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Faheem Pervez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Postinst isn't used, instead you can set a flash-and-reboot flag in control. Yes, and the main reason for this contortion is that flashing the initfs should be followed immediately by a reboot. The kernel can safely be flashed at any time, but it

Re: Application Manager - Refresh application list

2008-07-01 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Going to a terminal kinda defeats the whole purpose of a GUI app > manager, especially for a touchscreen device that doesn't have a real > keyboard. In this case, you would use the terminal to debug your problem. Once it's solved, you can go back using th

Re: Can't find repository

2008-06-30 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Marius Gedminas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Speaking of non-UI programs listed in the Application Manager, how can > we solve the current problem of having tens of pidgin/canola/gcompris > plugins/themes/translations cluttering up the list? Good question. We have been pondering this a bi

Re: flash-and-reboot, initfs-flasher, kernel-diablo-flasher

2008-06-25 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Marius Gedminas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 03:51:39PM -0300, Jonathan Markevich wrote: >> These packages are not completely installed on upgrade... if you can, go to >> a root prompt and type apt-get -f install > > What's up with this, does anyone know? Why is it

Re: N800 not N-series? :-)

2008-04-08 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Jac Kersing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (Did I realy expect to be able to use a device with Linux to access > copyrighted content? No. That is probably still one step too far) Heh, most of the content on the Intertubes is copyrighted by someone. You are probably thinking about accessing

Re: Column width in Application manager

2008-03-19 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Adam Parsons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It was because some of the version details of a few packages in the list > are so long, that it's eating all the width. Yep. We finally fixed that annoyance in hildon-application-manager 2.1.4. > I didn't find a way to hide the long versions, I'm

Re: osso-gnupg

2008-03-10 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Kip Warner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Could you try to compile it yourself? > > I would like to try that. I know how to build the package from source on > my desktop Debian system, but not sure for maemo. Something like... > > apt-get source gnupg > apt-get build-deps gnupg > dpkg-buildp

Re: Cleaning up space on internal memory

2008-03-05 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext sebastian maemo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Some language packages are compulsory to the system. If you try to > remove it via apt-get, you'll be prompted about the dangers. I tried > once to clean it all and ended with a broken system :) You can, however, just remove files from /usr/shar

Re: installing Debian packages on N810

2008-01-31 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Jeffrey Mark Siskind" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it possible to install Debian armel (EABI ARM) packages from sid > (unstable) on an N810? Only by accident. There is no defined relationship between maemo and Debian. > The particular packages in question are emacs21 and texlive. Yay,

Re: installing skype on N810

2008-01-31 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Gary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Erik Hovland wrote: >> That is the cause. Flash the updated version of the OS and skype will >> install without issue. >> > > Since maemo is loosely based on Debian, what are the chances we'll ever > see an incremental upgrade path akin to an 'apt-get u

Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support

2007-10-22 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Marius Vollmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I hope the document that you refer to is not screwed up. I will check > myself. Nope, it's fine. Please read it again. :) ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.

Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support

2007-10-22 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Steve Greenland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > According to Marius Vollmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> How important is it to fix this? I'm working on the assumption that >> you would only activate "Show all packages" in an emergency, but

Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support

2007-10-22 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Steve Greenland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > According to Marius Vollmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> "ext Marius Gedminas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > My personal pet peeve with the app manager is all those confirmation &

Re: N810: any AZERTY keyboard?

2007-10-19 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Jean-Christian de Rivaz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Interresting, I missed this very important point, thanks for the > info. I am Swiss French and I will buy the N810 as soon as possible, > but I wonder what keyboard will be on the version buyable in > Switzerland as the standard Keyboard

Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support

2007-10-19 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext James Sparenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. the "update packages" event. Every action requires that a full > on rescan of the system be done. Each one taking between 30 to 60 > seconds to complete. If it takes this long, you probably have the "Show all packages" option activated.

Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support

2007-10-19 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Steve Greenland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> (In other words, it is conservative when removing things. Not like >> aptitude that goes and deletes half your OS if you are not careful.. >> :) > > Aww, cmon, this is mostly fixed in aptitude these days. Besides, it made > life exciting! Yep,

Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support

2007-10-19 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Marius Gedminas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My personal pet peeve with the app manager is all those confirmation > dialogs. Yeah, and there will be more in the future... There should be at least one before starting the operation, and we can't get rid of the legal "Notice" dialog for non-

Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support

2007-10-18 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Steve Greenland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > According to Marius Vollmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Can you give more information about how the AM is slower than apt-get? >> Do you need to perform too many clicks in the UI to get your task >>

Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support

2007-10-18 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Steve Greenland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (Digression: why am I not using the Application Manager? > Well, besides the fact that apt-get is the One True Way, the AM is > *slow*. And unreliable (upgrades and updates often fail, but work with > apt-get). And there's no obvious way to upgra

Re: Improvements in the browser

2007-10-10 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Aniello Del Sorbo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well you know.. They (CS teachers) teach us that computers are > deterministic automata. In theory... In practice.. They (the > computers) proved us many times they are not. ;-) No, it's just us humans who get confused and then attribute our

Re: 4.2007.38-2 available

2007-10-05 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext James Sparenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Marius, In reply to the space constraint and upgrade done to the > entire OS. This was first solved in URPMI for Mandrake around 8.1 > (Now called Mandriva) and AFAIK it has been ported into the > dist-upgrade feature for dpkg/apt. I don't kno

Re: problem after re-flash

2007-10-04 Thread Marius Vollmer
> I looked in application manager's logs, and it says it's getting GPG > errors (typing, and not pasting, so please excuse errors here): (You can save the log to flash and then transfer that somehow to email, but I'm sure you know that. :) > W: GPG error: http://catalogue.tableteer.nokia.com bo

Re: 4.2007.38-2 available

2007-10-03 Thread Marius Vollmer
Eero Tamminen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm pretty sure that the dist-upgrade is going to require tens of > MBs of free space to do e.g. because some of the packages are pretty > large (check for example the Browser packages in garage). Yep, but that doesn't sound unreasonable to me at all.

Re: 4.2007.38-2 available

2007-10-03 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Michael Wiktowy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This conversation has been had many times in the past and Nokia has > resisted it since it complicates updates in a huge way. It is a fact > that it is more difficult to do this on a resource constrained system > like the Internet Tablets than on

Re: 4.2007.38-2 available

2007-10-03 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Gary Baribault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK then, can I beat up on them? Sure, keep it coming! :-) It is good to see what people care about, and a good rant is always appreciated. It really does help keep my priorities sane, at least. > I agree, this is a lousy way of doing the update

Re: 4.2007.38-2 available

2007-10-03 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It took me an entire weekend to gett back up to speed. So, in > response, this new update is definitely _not_ cool. :( >From what I understand, it is enough to flash the kernel and initfs of 4.2007.38-2, no need to kill your rootfs. ___

Re: N800 update in red pill mode.

2007-09-17 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext James Sparenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've noticed that this package seems to be nothing more than some kind of > alert that updates exist. The "magic:sys" entry is not a package at all. It is just a hackish way to represent the "Update my whole system" operation in the UI. Apt-

Re: Updates in red-pill mode

2007-09-13 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Thomas Leavitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I put my device in "red-pill" mode a while back... a short time > later, I noticed a number of "upgrades" and went ahead and installed > them, without making the connection (until afterwards)... this did > produce a "broken" package warning, revea

Re: Updates in red-pill mode

2007-09-13 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Thomas Leavitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The device functioned just fine while it was in this "broken" state, > and just fine afterwards, so I doubt that doing updates in > "red-pill" mode, alone, is enough to brick the device... I suspect > there must be something else involved. Red-pi

Re: Questions from a Tech Saavy Newbie: Alt App Install / Homedir Location

2007-09-13 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Thomas Leavitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. Can I/how do I install apps to the MMC instead of the / > filesystem? My file system is almost completely full already. Nope, unfortunately not. The best way out of this dilemma that I know is to put "/" (or parts of it) on a MMC. __

Re: Canola never finds any media

2007-09-10 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Steve Yelvington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At this point I'm probably going to have to reflash the unit over the > weekend and start over, as I have managed to foul up Application > Manager, which opens a window but won't run. Check whether you messed up sudo. This is usually the rea

Re: Latest Release of UKMP does not Install Correctly

2007-08-29 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Acadia Secure Networks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It now reads 1.621. So I went ahead and tried the "click to install" > and this time it worked! Ok, so the author of ukmp (Urho?) has probably changed something. > Interestingly, the message that came up while it was installing > specifi

Re: Latest Release of UKMP does not Install Correctly

2007-08-28 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Acadia Secure Networks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I downloaded the latest version (1.62) of the UKMP application today > but it failed to install on two attempts. This might be because of a corrupted (or non-standard) .deb file or because of bugs in busybox tar. Could you point me to th

Re: how to install GPE Calendar?

2007-08-17 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Graham Cobb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Click to install" doesn't work on the 770. It works 'somwewhat'. The Application Manager will silently ignore files that are not compatible with the 770 instead of complaining loudly. (I don't really remember if there was a good reason for this o

Re: bizp2 not installable via program manager

2007-07-31 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Rainer Dorsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I wanted to install bzip2 on an N800. I did not find it in the program > manager. But installing it with apt-get was no problem at all. This is exactly what is expected. The Application Manager simply hides 'advanced' packages like bzip2 from th

Re: Newbie asks what is the key to repository access?

2007-07-31 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Paul Klapperich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Catalog Name: Anything you want ("Maemo.org" maybe) > Web address: "http://repository.maemo.org"; > Distribution: "gregale" > Components: "free nonfree" Shouldn't that be "non-free", with a dash? __

Re: my two big fustrations with the N800 - please help me find aworkaround!

2007-07-23 Thread Marius Vollmer
Ed Bartosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Of course not. Nokia wants the maemo community to be healthy, and >> Nokia, as initiator and part of the community, is currently very much >> in charge of setting the rules and giving directions for future >> improvement. > > I agree with this. My point w

Re: RTCom - SIP Service

2007-07-23 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Larry Battraw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are these versions available in Sardine or somewhere else? Only in Sardine. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: my two big fustrations with the N800 - please help me find aworkaround!

2007-07-23 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext James Knott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Further on this. As an experiment, I just installed xvkbd on my main > system, running the KDE desktop. I then connected to another system via > ssh and started an application. I am able to use the xvkbd virtual > keyboard to type into OpenOffice

Re: my two big fustrations with the N800 - please help me find aworkaround!

2007-07-23 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Tomas Junnonen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - Requesting access through the interface creates an entry in a > ticket tracker, where it can be voted and commented on. Access is > granted (or not) when a repo admin resolves the ticket. Would you do this for each new version of a package,

Re: my two big fustrations with the N800 - please help me find aworkaround!

2007-07-23 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Ed Bartosh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 12:08 +0300, ext Tomas Junnonen wrote: > >> If there's any additional hoops to jump through people just aren't going >> to bother. > > Yeah, I can see that. And you know what? It's not because Nokia not > doing this and that, it

Re: my two big fustrations with the N800 - please help me find aworkaround!

2007-07-20 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Tomas Junnonen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think at least partially it's because there's no carrot being offered > to the developers. If the Extras repository was included in the > Application Manager by default, although disabled (as Multiverse is in > Ubuntu, you can show a disclaimer

Re: RTCom - SIP Service

2007-07-20 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Larry Battraw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As an aside, has anyone had their Application manager break after > trying to to install RTCom? I managed to get RTCom installed manually > via apt-get/dpkg but now whenever I run the Application manager the > window will appear almost instantly

Re: mozilla browser

2007-07-19 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Alan Williamson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yeah i have redpill enabled -- and i have it under "Tools" The red pill mode has nothing to do with the browser, it's Application Manager only. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https:

Re: my two big fustrations with the N800 - please help me find a workaround!

2007-07-19 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext andrei raevsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] I want to tell you what bugs me so much and ask you whether > you found a way around the two issues which make me grind my teeth > and get gastric reflux. > > 1) OS updates and backups[...] > 2) Repositories: [...] I, too, w

Re: Mozilla browser has problem with jalimo installation?

2007-07-18 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Wahlau -" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i manage to fsck the rootfs and now it seemed to be working :) Ok, cool! :) > wonder why my file system got screwed up :) Where is your rootfs? Internal flash or on the MMC? What filesystem format? > thanks for the quick help! You are welcome! __

Re: Mozilla browser has problem with jalimo installation?

2007-07-18 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Wahlau -" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 18/07/07, Marius Vollmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This unfortunately looks like a filesystem corruption. What > > happens when you do the following? > > > > # cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/

Re: Mozilla browser has problem with jalimo installation?

2007-07-18 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Wahlau -" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Selecting previously deselected package classpath-common. > (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/classpath-common_2%3a0.95+cvs20070530-1_all.deb > (--unpack): > unable to open files list file for package `microb-l10n':

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