PDF viewer stopped working
Hello everybody, I have updated my N900 recently from testing or even devel sources. Then the PDF viewer stopped working. It says it doesn’t have enough memory to open that file. Just by any file I try to open. What package should I reinstall or downgrade? Or what else should I do? Thanks. -- Pavel Řezníček vývojář a správce sítě Farní sbor Českobratrské církve evangelické – Korandův sbor Anglické nábřeží 13 301 50 Plzeň Odesláno z mého telefonu Nokia N900 s linuxovým operačním systémem Maemo 5 Fremantle. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: USB host mode
Hello Pali, thanks for your tip, that thread looks great! 2012/11/21 Pali Rohár pali.ro...@gmail.com On Friday 16 November 2012 09:39:39 Pavel Řezníček wrote: Dear Maemo fellows, I am trying to use my N900 like an USB host. i bought an A-A USB connector so I could plug in devices using my Nokia USB cable. I installed h-e-n, the USB host mode enabler. I played around with it but every device connection ended up in a kernel driver segfault (reported by dmesg). Any clues what am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance for your future responses. Hi, you can try to use usbmode from TMO tread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=85658 -- Pali Rohár pali.ro...@gmail.com -- *Pavel Řezníček* *vývojář a správce počítačových sítí* *software developer and computer network administrator* Farní sbor Českobratrské církve evangelické – Korandův sbor Parrish Congregation of the Protestant Church of Czech Brethern – Koranda Congregation Anglické nábřeží 13 301 00 Plzeň/Pilsen Plzeňský kraj/Pilsen District, Czechia, Central Europe ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
USB host mode
Dear Maemo fellows, I am trying to use my N900 like an USB host. i bought an A-A USB connector so I could plug in devices using my Nokia USB cable. I installed h-e-n, the USB host mode enabler. I played around with it but every device connection ended up in a kernel driver segfault (reported by dmesg). Any clues what am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance for your future responses. -- Pavel Řezníček vývojář a správce sítě Farní sbor Českobratrské církve evangelické – Korandův sbor Anglické nábřeží 13 301 50 Plzeň Odesláno z mého telefonu Nokia N900 s linuxovým operačním systémem Maemo 5 Fremantle. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
USB host mode
Thank you, Jim, for your response. I’ll try the links you suggest. -- Pavel Řezníček vývojář a správce sítě Farní sbor Českobratrské církve evangelické – Korandův sbor Anglické nábřeží 13 301 50 Plzeň Odesláno z mého telefonu Nokia N900 s linuxovým operačním systémem Maemo 5 Fremantle. On Pá 16. listopad 2012, 11:36:27 CET, Jim Craven jimcra...@zoomtown.com wrote: On my N800 I used information from the following to successfully access flash drives. http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/kate-alholas-forum-nokia-blog/2008/01/21/usb-on-the-go https://garage.maemo.org/projects/usb-otg-plugin/ - Original Message - From: maemo-users-requ...@maemo.org To: maemo-users@maemo.org Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 5:00 AM Subject: maemo-users Digest, Vol 91, Issue 1 Send maemo-users mailing list submissions to maemo-users@maemo.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to maemo-users-requ...@maemo.org You can reach the person managing the list at maemo-users-ow...@maemo.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of maemo-users digest... Today's Topics: 1. USB host mode (Pavel ?ezn??ek) -- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:39:39 +0100 From: Pavel ?ezn??ek cig...@gmail.com Subject: USB host mode To: U?ivatel? Maema maemo-users@maemo.org Message-ID: 1353055179.20122.8.camel@Nokia-N900 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Dear Maemo fellows, I am trying to use my N900 like an USB host. i bought an A-A USB connector so I could plug in devices using my Nokia USB cable. I installed h-e-n, the USB host mode enabler. I played around with it but every device connection ended up in a kernel driver segfault (reported by dmesg). Any clues what am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance for your future responses. -- Pavel ?ezn??ek v?voj?? a?spr?vce s?t? Farn? sbor ?eskobratrsk? c?rkve evangelick? ? Korand?v sbor Anglick? n?b?e?? 13 301?50 Plze? Odesl?no z?m?ho telefonu Nokia?N900 s?linuxov?m opera?n?m syst?mem Maemo 5 Fremantle. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20121116/1df53c33/attachment.html -- ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users End of maemo-users Digest, Vol 91, Issue 1 ** ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N900 consumes too much power
Dne 10.8.2012 16:47, Paul Hartman napsal(a): On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Pavel Řezníček cig...@gmail.com wrote: Should I raise the bug or is anyone here to take the initiative? Could you recommend me where to open it? Should this bug's fix be implemented by the CSSU team? A bug report already exists: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8657 ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users Great, Paul! Thank you for your info ;-) Pavel ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N900 consumes too much power
Dne 10.8.2012 16:25, Paul Hartman napsal(a): On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Pavel Řezníček cig...@gmail.com wrote: I'm going to remove the calendar and location widgets from the desktop (even though I loved to have the calendar close to my eyes…). I use the Calendar Home Widget by Nicolai Hess (package name: cal-home-widget) which is a replacement for stock calendar widget, and more configurable as well (can change size, choose which view to open calendar, filter events to hide, etc). It doesn't give me any battery problems so far. :) ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users Thank you, Paul! A great tip ;-) Pavel ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N900 consumes too much power
Dne 7.8.2012 08:59, Michael Rösch napsal(a): Am 05.08.2012 21:45, schrieb Jan Knutar: On Sunday 05 August 2012, Michael Rösch wrote: The biggest leap in saving enery is to use smart-reflex. Considering how abnormal his battery use is, I don't think smartreflex is the answer. Considering smartreflex only makes a difference when the CPU is on, and on a properly configured device, the CPU spends most of the time off. You're right! Of course he has to find that process(es) that drains the battery. All information is on the pages that are linked somewhere in the thread. He statet that he is always connected to wifi at home, well that is the first thing to stop using Autodisconnect for example. CU Michael ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users You're right, Michael! I have started to use AutoDisconnect and I have stopped to be connected all the time to WiFi. So this cause is removed. Let's watch my next steps :-) Pavel ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N900 consumes too much power
Dne 7.8.2012 09:36, Jan Knutar napsal(a): On Sunday 05 August 2012, Pavel Řezníček wrote: My Maemo and N900 knowledge is maybe abnormal (abnormally poor). I neearly sure not to have a properly configured device. Now it comes the special moment when I begin to study how to get my N900 properly configured :-) Properly configured is something like what the device is like when taken out of the retail box after buying it.. Maybe removing the location widget and the calendar widget from the desktops. Then after that there are lots of things you can install and do to make it burn battery. For example, if you turn off wifi power saving and connect to wifi, you'd go down from several days of standby, to 6 hours of standby. Also if your wifi access point doesn't support wifi powersaving, or has broken/buggy wifi powersaving. (Which is probaly why one would turn it off on N900) You said it happens also when not on wifi, so I guess that's the problem in this case. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users Thank you, Honzo. So you suggest me to remove the calendar widget from the desktop? I have it there… Yes, it consumes about 1% of CPU time… Yes, location widget! Wow, how did you guess? :-D It goes out of the window right away. Also about 1% of CPU time. I have WiFi power saving enabled. Pavel ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N900 consumes too much power
Dne 7.8.2012 09:03, Michael Rösch napsal(a): Am 05.08.2012 20:25, schrieb Pavel Řezníček: Now I don't exactly know what smart-reflex is for now. I surely can search for it but if you could explain it also for the others, I'd be happy :-) You can look it up here: http://wiki.maemo.org/Smartreflex OK, I'm not sure if I have the kernel-power installed for now. I'll definitely install it. Last time the installation ran without problems. CSSU. This is still a mystery for me. It's a sure choice then. I notice I am a bit noob :-D Open a Terminal an type uname -a Then the prompt should be Linux $HOSTNAME 2.6.28.10-power50 #1 PREEMPT Sun Mar 18 20:10:56 EET 2012 armv7l GNU/Linux HTH CU Michael Thank you for the link, Michael. Here follows my uname output: ~ $ uname -a Linux Nokia-N900 2.6.28.10-power50 #1 PREEMPT Sun Mar 18 20:10:56 EET 2012 armv7l GNU/Linux As you see, I just installed the Power Kernel (the day before yesterday) ;-) Pavel ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N900 consumes too much power
Dne 7.8.2012 03:20, Cedric Cellier napsal(a): - Message d'origine - The first really kicked me! I've never used the offline mode because I want people to reach me on my phone number. So I wasn't really right I don't use GPRS/2.5G/3G. I am connected to my cell operator all the time even when not connected to their data services! I just only use the call and SMS services. To be clear: Is it normal to be connected to this basic services all the time with an N900 device? Or did you, Rixed, recommend me to go offline only for testing purposes? Of course offline mode is not normal. I suggested it for testing :) So that whatever software is the culprit it can no longer drain the battery very fast. If you can't stand several days in offline mode and without top reporting a process that's heavy on the cpu then you'll be certain your harware is faulty. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users Dear Cedric, I've tried to go in offline mode for an afternoon and a night. And yes, my N900's battery lasted all the time, about 18 hours, still having approx. 64.5% of energy. That's a great difference! I don't remember my device to stay on for so long off the charger ;-) Pavel ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N900 consumes too much power
Dne 7.8.2012 15:10, Patrick Vranckx napsal(a): Hi, Don't know if it can help but I had a similar problem. It was caused by a bug related to auto-completion. My battery lasted only a few hours... Have a look at this thread:http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=1020718 It worked for me. Patrick BINGO, Patrick! Thanks you a hundred thousand times, that was exactly my problem! I already wanted to write about hildon-input-method crashing and consuming about 90-96% of CPU time. Now you were faster than my thoughts ;-) So is it all about broken autocompletion dictionaries? Doh! Here is the solution from your link (for the conveniency of others falling into the same issue): 1) Run xterminal and sudo gainroot 2) cd /home/user/.osso/ 3) mv dictionaries olddics 4) Restart your phone How do they get broken? (I don't expect you to answer this question.) /usr/bin/hildon-input-method is really the worst battery killer I have noticed. I'm watching my battery using BatteryGraph continuously. Now I'm going to bed to move my broken dictionaries out of the way ;-) Maybe we should raise a bug: 1. The dictionaries shouldn't get broken by autocompletion software itself. 2. If the dictionaries get broken somehow, the hildon-input-method program should not crash or behave in such a buggy way that it consumes all available CPU time. Should I raise the bug or is anyone here to take the initiative? Could you recommend me where to open it? Should this bug's fix be implemented by the CSSU team? Many thanks for you all, guys! I'd be helpless without you. This is what I really love about open source communities 8-) Pavel ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N900 consumes too much power
Dne 6.8.2012 17:04, Paul Hartman napsal(a): On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 3:52 AM, Pavel Řezníček cig...@gmail.com wrote: Dear comaemoers, I have recently read an article, a review of Nokia N900. The reviewer stated that his device lasts 3 days on battery when only sometimes calling or writing SMS. This is what I hardly can believe because my N900 lasts only 3, max. 6 hours on battery and then the battery gets discharged. Was the reviewer kidding or is something wrong with my mobile computer? I have recently bought a new battery and the effect is minimal. My device was in repair service already and they changed the motherboard. It helped a bit but I never made it to that 3 days on battery. Any ideas? :-) Using Scud battery + CSSU + kernel-power with smartreflex enabled, usually but not always connected to either 3.5G cellular internet or wifi, with email refresh every 15 minutes, no IM or voip accounts, no wifi autoconnect, brightness set to 2nd lowest setting, usually it will last me about a day and a half. If I'm listening to streaming music then battery dies much faster, a time measured in hours not in days. Some installed programs/widgets may be consuming CPU, daemons running in the background. HAM auto-update check can be a killer if you have a lot of repos enabled. If you are familiar with standard linux tools you can look in top and similar and find out what's running. BatteryGraph package is great, it will show when your battery usage is occurring, whether you are connected to gprs or wifi at the time. Maybe you can figure out if battery loss is constant or if there's a particular activity you did that is causing rapid drain. I also find that battery drain is affected by environmental conditions. If the N900 is in my pocket all day, or I'm in a place with poor signal, battery drains faster than if it is sitting on my desk with full bars. N900 in offline mode will last a week, but is not as fun. :) ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users Thank you, Paul! As I already announced on another place in this thread, 1. I use BatteryGraph now a lot. I monitor the power consumption thoroughly. 2. I have kernel-power-50 and CSSU installed. 3. I'm going to enable smartreflex. 4. I'm going to remove the calendar and location widgets from the desktop (even though I loved to have the calendar close to my eyes…). 5. I started to use AutoDisconnect. 6. I reduced the WiFi power from 100 mW to 10 mW. 7. The biggest battery killer was hildon-input-method having corrupt autocompletion dictionaries. I asked here if we should raise a bug against this situation. Pavel ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N900 consumes too much power
Dne 6.8.2012 06:08, ri...@happyleptic.org napsal(a): -[ Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 08:20:17PM +0200, Pavel ??ezní??ek ] I am connected all the time to WiFi at home. But even outdoors when not connected, my battery discharges in a couple of hours. You should try setting the N900 in flight mode (or offline mode, whatever it's called) so you can make certain your's not using wifi nor 3g nor anything. Then see how long your phone lasts. Also, while doing so, open a terminal and run top for a minute or two to check CPU usage by programs. Top itself and Xorg should be on top, with only a few % of CPU. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users Thank you, Rixed. I'll try the second suggestion. The first really kicked me! I've never used the offline mode because I want people to reach me on my phone number. So I wasn't really right I don't use GPRS/2.5G/3G. I am connected to my cell operator all the time even when not connected to their data services! I just only use the call and SMS services. To be clear: Is it normal to be connected to this basic services all the time with an N900 device? Or did you, Rixed, recommend me to go offline only for testing purposes? To test if the battery lives longer? A progress anouncement for everybody: I've installed the CSSU! I plan to watch the battery life in the next days. Pavel ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
N900 consumes too much power
Dear comaemoers, I have recently read an article, a review of Nokia N900. The reviewer stated that his device lasts 3 days on battery when only sometimes calling or writing SMS. This is what I hardly can believe because my N900 lasts only 3, max. 6 hours on battery and then the battery gets discharged. Was the reviewer kidding or is something wrong with my mobile computer? I have recently bought a new battery and the effect is minimal. My device was in repair service already and they changed the motherboard. It helped a bit but I never made it to that 3 days on battery. Any ideas? :-) -- Pavel Řezníček vývojář a správce sítě Farní sbor Českobratrské církve evangelické – Korandův sbor Anglické nábřeží 13 301 50 Plzeň Odesláno z mého telefonu Nokia N900 s linuxovým operačním systémem Maemo 5 Fremantle. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N900 consumes too much power
Dne 5.8.2012 11:18, ri...@happyleptic.org napsal(a): -[ Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 10:52:29AM +0200, Pavel ??ezní??ek ] Dear comaemoers, I have recently read an article, a review of Nokia N900. The reviewer stated that his device lasts 3 days on battery when only sometimes calling or writing SMS. This is what I hardly can believe because my N900 lasts only 3, max. 6 hours on battery and then the battery gets discharged. Was the reviewer kidding or is something wrong with my mobile computer? Mine, whith it's quite old battery, can probably last 2 days with this kind of usage (but browsing the web on wifi empty the batterie on 3/4 hours). I'd say you have a program installed that ruins the battery life. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users Thank you for your tips, Dmitry! After the suggestions of others, I think one problem is that I'm connected all the time to my WiFi at home. But it isn't everything. Even when not connected (while I'm outdoors), the battery lives for hours, never days. I'll try to investigate the battery killer ;-) Pavel ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N900 consumes too much power
Dne 5.8.2012 11:16, Dmitry Chistikov napsal(a): Pavel Řezníček, Aug. 05, 2012, 10:52 +0200: I have recently read an article, a review of Nokia N900. The reviewer stated that his device lasts 3 days on battery when only sometimes calling or writing SMS. This is what I hardly can believe because my N900 lasts only 3, max. 6 hours on battery and then the battery gets discharged. Was the reviewer kidding or is something wrong with my mobile computer? I have recently bought a new battery and the effect is minimal. Hello Pavel, I think something is definitely wrong with your device or software. Battery life of my N900 is days, not hours (I do not use it really much though). I am not sure these links will be of help, but maybe you will be able to find something useful there: http://wiki.maemo.org/Make_your_battery_last_longer http://wiki.maemo.org/Battery_consuming_and_memory_leaking_applications Dear Dmitry, thank you for your tips. 1. I am connected all the time at home to my WiFi network. Do you think it could consume so much power? 2. I'll try to find the battery killer with this list's help :-) Pavel ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N900 consumes too much power
Dne 5.8.2012 11:18, ri...@happyleptic.org napsal(a): -[ Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 10:52:29AM +0200, Pavel ??ezní??ek ] Dear comaemoers, I have recently read an article, a review of Nokia N900. The reviewer stated that his device lasts 3 days on battery when only sometimes calling or writing SMS. This is what I hardly can believe because my N900 lasts only 3, max. 6 hours on battery and then the battery gets discharged. Was the reviewer kidding or is something wrong with my mobile computer? Mine, whith it's quite old battery, can probably last 2 days with this kind of usage (but browsing the web on wifi empty the batterie on 3/4 hours). I'd say you have a program installed that ruins the battery life. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users Thank you for sharing your experience, Rixed! I am connected all the time to WiFi at home. But even outdoors when not connected, my battery discharges in a couple of hours. Pavel ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N900 consumes too much power
Dne 5.8.2012 18:06, Michael Rösch napsal(a): Am 05.08.2012 10:52, schrieb Pavel Řezníček: Dear comaemoers, I have recently read an article, a review of Nokia N900. The reviewer stated that his device lasts 3 days on battery when only sometimes calling or writing SMS. This is what I hardly can believe because my N900 lasts only 3, max. 6 hours on battery and then the battery gets discharged. Was the reviewer kidding or is something wrong with my mobile computer? I have recently bought a new battery and the effect is minimal. My device was in repair service already and they changed the motherboard. It helped a bit but I never made it to that 3 days on battery. Any ideas? :-) The biggest leap in saving enery is to use smart-reflex. Thus for you have to install kernel-power 50. Please read all instructions in the wiki carefully before doing so. Installing latest CSSU is recommended too. CU Michael Thank you, Michael! Now I don't exactly know what smart-reflex is for now. I surely can search for it but if you could explain it also for the others, I'd be happy :-) OK, I'm not sure if I have the kernel-power installed for now. I'll definitely install it. Last time the installation ran without problems. CSSU. This is still a mystery for me. It's a sure choice then. I notice I am a bit noob :-D Pavel ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N900 consumes too much power
Dne 5.8.2012 20:17, Andrew Flegg napsal(a): On 5 August 2012 19:07, Pavel Řezníček cig...@gmail.com wrote: After the suggestions of others, I think one problem is that I'm connected all the time to my WiFi at home. But it isn't everything. Even when not connected (while I'm outdoors), the battery lives for hours, never days. I'll try to investigate the battery killer ;-) Maintaining a TCP/IP connection drains the battery; so things like IM accounts are the antithesis of long battery life. Some protocols are also thirstier than others. It's a shame, because one of the advantages of Maemo 5 is its design to be always connected. Unfortunately, that isn't conducive to multi-day battery life. Some of the other power (limited QA, mainstream Linux userland, full multitasking) also makes it very easy for software (including Nokia's) to accidentally drain the battery by not being well written, not using the heartbeat functionality and not stopping doing things when not in the foreground. HTH, Andrew Yes, you are right, Andrew. I should then use a connection stopper application. Thank you for the tips. Still, I suspect that something else drains the battery power because I never did it to a day up and running, even when offline. Pavel ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N900 consumes too much power
Dne 5.8.2012 17:02, Luis Listas napsal(a): On Sun, 5 Aug 2012, 06:00:02 BRT, Pavel ?ezn??ek I have recently read an article, a review of Nokia N900. The reviewer stated that his device lasts 3 days on battery when only sometimes calling or writing SMS. This is what I hardly can believe because my N900 lasts only 3, max. 6 hours on battery and then the battery gets discharged. Was the reviewer kidding or is something wrong It's easy. My N900 lasts 4 days if I use it only lightly: just a few minutes of wifi connection a day plus some short calls and SMSs. When always connected to 2-3.5G it lats only around 5 hours. If your N900 is not lasting when not always connected make sure you install the CSSU from maemo.org. It fixes alotr of bugs. []s, Luis ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users Thank you, Luis! Though I suspect this is not my case because I lose battery power quickly even when not connected, I'll definitely try to install CSSU and the Power Kernel. Pavel ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N900 consumes too much power
Dne 5.8.2012 20:21, Jakub Górzyński napsal(a): Try to limit wifi power in advanced connection settings. 10 mW is often enough in homes. Best regards Kuba 5 sie 2012 20:17, Pavel Řezníček cig...@gmail.com mailto:cig...@gmail.com napisał(a): Dne 5.8.2012 11 tel:5.8.2012%2011:16, Dmitry Chistikov napsal(a): Pavel Řezníček, Aug. 05, 2012, 10:52 +0200: I have recently read an article, a review of Nokia N900. The reviewer stated that his device lasts 3 days on battery when only sometimes calling or writing SMS. This is what I hardly can believe because my N900 lasts only 3, max. 6 hours on battery and then the battery gets discharged. Was the reviewer kidding or is something wrong with my mobile computer? I have recently bought a new battery and the effect is minimal. Hello Pavel, I think something is definitely wrong with your device or software. Battery life of my N900 is days, not hours (I do not use it really much though). I am not sure these links will be of help, but maybe you will be able to find something useful there: http://wiki.maemo.org/Make_your_battery_last_longer http://wiki.maemo.org/Battery_consuming_and_memory_leaking_applications Dear Dmitry, thank you for your tips. 1. I am connected all the time at home to my WiFi network. Do you think it could consume so much power? 2. I'll try to find the battery killer with this list's help :-) Pavel ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org mailto:maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users A very good tip also. Thank you, Kuba ;-) . I'll give it a try. Pavel ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N900 consumes too much power
Dne 5.8.2012 21:45, Jan Knutar napsal(a): On Sunday 05 August 2012, Pavel Řezníček wrote: I am connected all the time to WiFi at home. But even outdoors when not connected, my battery discharges in a couple of hours. Are you connected to 3g instead when outdoors? Do you have switch to WLAN when available enabled? ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users Hello Jan, thank you for your response and question. No, I'm usually not connected to 3G when outdoors. I use 3G on merely rare occasions because it costs money in contrast to WiFi :-) Actually, I don't have “switch to wlan when available” enabled /but/ cca 98% of all the time I am speaking of I had it enabled. As I connect rarely to GPRS, 2.5G 3G cellular data networks and I am perfectly aware of disconnecting it and switching to WiFi, this is not my issue. Anyways, thanks for the tip :-) Pavel ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N900 consumes too much power
Dne 5.8.2012 21:45, Jan Knutar napsal(a): On Sunday 05 August 2012, Michael Rösch wrote: The biggest leap in saving enery is to use smart-reflex. Considering how abnormal his battery use is, I don't think smartreflex is the answer. Considering smartreflex only makes a difference when the CPU is on, and on a properly configured device, the CPU spends most of the time off. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users Humm, thanks for this tip, Jan. My Maemo and N900 knowledge is maybe abnormal (abnormally poor). I neearly sure not to have a properly configured device. Now it comes the special moment when I begin to study how to get my N900 properly configured :-) For the whole conference: Please be patient with me. I'll report my steps and results. I hope others will learn something useful from my case and your suggestions. Pavel ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
hildon-input-method crashing
Dear Maemoers, My virtual keyboard hildon-input-method crashes soon after its invocation. Sometimes it crashed after pressing Return (Enter), the last time it crashed after a Shift and a comma sign. Any clues where's the cause and how to solve it? -- Pavel Řezníček vývojář a správce sítě Farní sbor Českobratrské církve evangelické – Korandův sbor Anglické nábřeží 13 301 50 Plzeň Odesláno z mého telefonu Nokia N900 s linuxovým operačním systémem Maemo 5 Fremantle. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Fw: Re: Skype connectivity
- Původní zpráva - Dear Maemoers, I forward you Páli Rohár’s reponse to my question which follows his response to my initial question to our mailing list. I have forgotten to send a copy so I do it afterward. Pavel Řezníček - Původní zpráva - Od Pali Rohár pali.ro...@gmail.com Odesláno Út 10. duben 2012, 16:12:04 CEST Komu Pavel Řezníček cig...@gmail.com Předmět Re: Skype connectivity On Tuesday 10 April 2012 14:55:42 you wrote: Hello Pali, this is weird. My Wi-Fi network is broadcast by my own router. The router is connected to a Cable DSL modem. I have at least one PC running the Skype for Linux binary and it’s connected all the time. What are the old Skype supernodes exactly? Is it possible for me to write e. g. a Python script to test the Skype connectivity on my N900? Hi! the first problem with skype is that it is closed and nobody know how working internally. So it is not possible to debug it or getting support from Skype Inc. So there is no program/script for testing skype connectivity. Also Nokia and Skype Inc too ignore some old devices (like N900) and they do not care about it... Skype protocol is changing in the time and old skype version cannot connect to supernodes where users upgraded Skype binary. But this is only my idea where can be problem... You can read more about decrypted skype protocol and binary in blog: http://skype-open-source.blogspot.com/ Developers had problem that old windows version stopped working due to that old version cannot connect to supernodes where is running new version. So I thought that you can have similar problem... (e.g. skype in your n900 does not see any supernodes where is running compatible skype client). -- Pali Rohár pali.ro...@gmail.com Thank you, Pali, For the link to Skype open source. It’s very interesting. This way I could maybe figure out what’s going on on my device. I’ll try to contact Nokia Support. Maybe. Just for fun :-D I guess they’ll recommend me to reflash :-D Maybe a reflash is the solution. But nobody knows. Maybe I should prepare myself for a backup, reflash and restoration. I tried to uninstall everything related to Skype, delete my account entry, reinstall everything back and add my Skype account again. It didn't work. I’m sure I enter the correct password. The IM account manager says that I’m just not signed in and I don’t see the Skype account in the account status list. Anybody any clues other than reflash? -- Pavel Řezníček vývojář a správce sítě Farní sbor Českobratrské církve evangelické – Korandův sbor Anglické nábřeží 13 301 50 Plzeň Odesláno z mého telefonu Nokia N900 s linuxovým operačním systémem Maemo 5 Fremantle.___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Fw: Re: Skype connectivity
Dear Maemoers, I forward you Páli Rohár’s reponse to my question which follows his response to my initial question to our mailing list. I have forgotten to send a copy so I do it afterward. Pavel Řezníček - Původní zpráva - Od Pali Rohár pali.ro...@gmail.com Odesláno Út 10. duben 2012, 16:12:04 CEST Komu Pavel Řezníček cig...@gmail.com Předmět Re: Skype connectivity On Tuesday 10 April 2012 14:55:42 you wrote: Hello Pali, this is weird. My Wi-Fi network is broadcast by my own router. The router is connected to a Cable DSL modem. I have at least one PC running the Skype for Linux binary and it’s connected all the time. What are the old Skype supernodes exactly? Is it possible for me to write e. g. a Python script to test the Skype connectivity on my N900? Hi! the first problem with skype is that it is closed and nobody know how working internally. So it is not possible to debug it or getting support from Skype Inc. So there is no program/script for testing skype connectivity. Also Nokia and Skype Inc too ignore some old devices (like N900) and they do not care about it... Skype protocol is changing in the time and old skype version cannot connect to supernodes where users upgraded Skype binary. But this is only my idea where can be problem... You can read more about decrypted skype protocol and binary in blog: http://skype-open-source.blogspot.com/ Developers had problem that old windows version stopped working due to that old version cannot connect to supernodes where is running new version. So I thought that you can have similar problem... (e.g. skype in your n900 does not see any supernodes where is running compatible skype client). -- Pali Rohár pali.ro...@gmail.com ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Skype connectivity
Hello my dear Maemoers, in recent days, I can’t connect to Skype with my N900 at all. Somebody with the same experience? What can cause this? What’s the solution? -- Pavel Řezníček vývojář a správce sítě Farní sbor Českobratrské církve evangelické – Korandův sbor Anglické nábřeží 13 301 50 Plzeň Odesláno z mého telefonu Nokia N900 s linuxovým operačním systémem Maemo 5 Fremantle. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Desktop widgets disappear
- Původní zpráva - On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Pavel Řezníček cig...@gmail.com mailto:cig...@gmail.com wrote: Hello my dear Maemo fellows, Once several days, most of the desktop widgets on my N900 just disappear. A reboot doesn't correct this (the widgets don't reappear again). I have to re-add them manually. When I re-add them, they persist after the reboot but only until the next accidental vanishing. What does cause this behaviour and how could I fix it? I look forward for your solutions. Hi Pavel, It's a response to a bug/crash in the desktop, possibly caused by certain widgets. Desktop Clock, QNetMan, Currency Exchange are widgets people claim will trigger this problem. I'm sure there are others. Try to think if there was a widget you installed recently before this problem happened and try to remove it. See if the problem goes away. If you can't accept that, there are some scripts on a talk.maemo.org thread about this problem that will restart the desktop and restore your widgets so you don't have to reboot or re-add them manually. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org mailto:maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users Hello Paul, Thank you for your response. It seems like a solution. I can disable most of the widgets. I use many of them but only a few are really necessary for me. I don’t run those that you name but it’s pretty probable that some of the widgets I use are just buggy. The only widget I wish to keep is Dr. Launch. We shall see if it isn’t the buggy one ;-) So for the start, I’ll experiment and remove the widgets one by one. Maybe I shall report my results for the benefit of everybody on this mailing list. -- Pavel Řezníček vývojář a správce sítě Farní sbor Českobratrské církve evangelické – Korandův sbor Anglické nábřeží 13 301 50 Plzeň Odesláno z mého telefonu Nokia N900 s linuxovým operačním systémem Maemo 5 Fremantle. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Desktop widgets disappear
Hello my dear Maemo fellows, Once several days, most of the desktop widgets on my N900 just disappear. A reboot doesn't correct this (the widgets don't reappear again). I have to re-add them manually. When I re-add them, they persist after the reboot but only until the next accidental vanishing. What does cause this behaviour and how could I fix it? I look forward for your solutions. -- Pavel Řezníček vývojář a správce sítě Farní sbor Českobratrské církve evangelické – Korandův sbor Anglické nábřeží 13 301 50 Plzeň Odesláno z mého telefonu Nokia N900 s linuxovým operačním systémem Maemo 5 Fremantle. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Desktop widgets disappear
- Původní zpráva - On Tuesday 21 February 2012 20:31:31 you wrote: - Původní zpráva - On Tuesday 21 February 2012 17:15:22 Pavel Řezníček wrote: Hello my dear Maemo fellows, Once several days, most of the desktop widgets on my N900 just disappear. A reboot doesn't correct this (the widgets don't reappear again). I have to re-add them manually. When I re-add them, they persist after the reboot but only until the next accidental vanishing. What does cause this behaviour and how could I fix it? I look forward for your solutions. Hi, when hildon-desktop (and other hildon-*) process is starting it check if last time process exited normally. And of not hildon-desktop will disable all plugins (e.g. widgets too) and reset configuration. I do not know how to fix it... Hello Pali, I sometimes run too many applications at the same time. Sometimes MicroB or Conversation becomes unresponsive so I think the hildon-desktop could also become unresponsive and be killed automatically and restarted. It resets all its settings then. This is one of my hypotheses. It is possible. Maybe good way will be to patch hildon-* to do not reset settings when time of 2 crashes is greater then some constant. Yes, that's approximately what Paul Hartman suggests (he mentions some scripts to work it around). (ps: please sent copy of mail to mailinglist, not only to some people) Excuse me everybody, I always forget to send a copy to the mailinglist… -- Pali Rohár pali.ro...@gmail.com -- Pavel Řezníček___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Troubles with chrooted Debian
Hello Eero, thank you for your response! So it seems that the default way Easy Debian is installed isn't the best one chosen, at least not the most reliable. It’s wonderful how complex problematics lie under the “simple” file image mounting and writing to it. Thanks for the detailed clarification. It’s really very probable that I used to run into entire memory consumptions and such critical situations. So maybe it isn't anybody’s fault or responsibility, especially not the kernel developers’. A safe solution for such an intensive image file usage might be pretty complex. Have a nice winter day. Regards for everybody on the mailing list. Pavel___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Troubles with chrooted Debian
Dne 5.1.2012 01:41, Paul Hartman napsal(a):
On 1/4/2012 4:32 PM, Pavel Řezníček wrote:
I’d though appreciate if you send me the precompiled kernel module
(along with some instructions or web resources how to install it).
It is attached inside a ZIP file. This module is only for use with stock
kernel, not power kernel!
…
If your card was affected by this bug, hopefully using this module will
now allow your card to work with no more corruption (after reformat).
Great! Now, after the installation of your fixed kernel module, I run
Easy Debian without bigger problems! Thank you so much for your help,
/it really works!/
Even when the N900 gets switched off or reboots accidentally while Easy
Debian’s filesystem on the card is mounted, the damage to it is always
so small that it’s fairly repairable, almost with no harm to the data.
Even my TDK card behaves nicely.
I have the Lazarus IDE compiled and working now :-) I’ve started to port
my older commercial project to Maemo recently :-)
For those interested: It’s called MiniMU and should serve as a task
tracking and management on-line binary database client for lift
servicemen (and eventually grow into a multi-purpose database
application). I have developed it for my former employer and nowadays I
continue on the same project on my own, expecting him to buy the new
part of the work.
But What I noticed during my experiments is that the loop mount support
is somehow bad. When Easy Debian was mounted from an image file, as I
started an I/O-intensive or CPU-intensive task such as copying the
contents of the image to the card, my device almost always ended up in a
shutdown or reboot and huge filesystem corruption inside the image file.
Yes, even if I ran /rsync/ with the highest nice level. This is
something for the power kernel developers to consider and think about.
(But keep in mind I work with the stock kernel.)
Thank you again for your guidance.
You are welcome, I hope it will solve your problem!
Thanks,
Paul
Yes, it really solved my problem! Thank God for such experienced and
helpful people like you.
Pavel
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function Podpis(): String;
begin
Jméno('Pavel Řezníček');
Bydliště('Borová 18', '312 00', 'Plzeň');
Pracoviště('Korandův sbor', 'Anglické nábřeží 13', '301 00', 'Plzeň');
Result := 'vývojář a správce sítě';
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Re: Troubles with chrooted Debian
Dne 5.1.2012 01:41, Paul Hartman napsal(a):
On 1/4/2012 4:32 PM, Pavel Řezníček wrote:
My current one and only card is TDK 8GB Life on Record, class unknown
for now.
I’m not sure if I can buy one from Amazon directly because I’m neither
an US nor UK resident.
Still thanks for your recommendation, it’s very valuable for me.
Replace Amazon with trusted store in your country who does not sell
counterfeit products. (So, do not buy SD card from eBay, DealExtreme, etc.)
I’ve just purchased a SanDisk 16GB Micro SD card but it’s not class 6 as
stated before but class 4, actually. I expect it to arrive on Monday
January 9th, it means tomorrow.
I’d though appreciate if you send me the precompiled kernel module
(along with some instructions or web resources how to install it).
It is attached inside a ZIP file. This module is only for use with stock
kernel, not power kernel!
…
If your card was affected by this bug, hopefully using this module will
now allow your card to work with no more corruption (after reformat).
Dear Paul, I tried your module. Everything went OK! … until I tried to
rsync everything from the card to an image file stored in ~/MyDocs. I
tried it twice and in both cases an unwanted reboot and filesystem
corruption occured, inspite that I ran rsync with the nice -n 19 prefix.
I called rsync from a bash script with sudo nice -n 19 that_script
actually. I suppose that every child process inherits the niceness of
that_script.
But I also tried to perform a sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get
dist-upgrade before. That worked pretty good except that some corruption
was already present on the filesystem (after an fsck repair) that didn’t
allow the upgrade to finish. Next time I’ll try on a fresh Debian partition.
So it appears that:
– the dist-upgrade seems to work :-) thank to the fixed kernel module
from you, Paul;
– as the image file became involved (during an rsync backup process),
the reboot and corruption occured twice already :-( ; the image file and
the partition on the microSD card both became corrupt;
– maybe I should
1. forget about the image file for now,
2. concentrate myself on work with the microSD card partition,
3. use the image file as a read-only rescue backup solution and
4. back the system on the card up to another place than to the
mounted image file on my device, i. e. to my PC, or use dd instead
of rsync.
Anyway, other ideas to figure out what’s going on here? Why is my N900
rebooting unexpectedly even when I am very nice to it?
Thank you, Paul and Michael, for your suggestions! I hope we’ll finally
find the way out of this weird story ;-)
Pavel
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begin
Jméno('Pavel Řezníček');
Bydliště('Borová 18', '312 00', 'Plzeň');
Pracoviště('Korandův sbor', 'Anglické nábřeží 13', '301 00', 'Plzeň');
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- Původní zpráva - On 1/4/2012 4:32 PM, Pavel Řezníček wrote: My current one and only card is TDK 8GB Life on Record, class unknown for now. I’m not sure if I can buy one from Amazon directly because I’m neither an US nor UK resident. Still thanks for your recommendation, it’s very valuable for me. Replace Amazon with trusted store in your country who does not sell counterfeit products. (So, do not buy SD card from eBay, DealExtreme, etc.) I’ve just purchased a SanDisk 16GB class 6 Micro SD card from Alza.cz, wich is one of the most reliable stores here in Czechia. It was really cheap. They offer two better class cards of this size (a little bit more expensive) but no bigger sizes. I hope I’ve chosen a good piece. I’d though appreciate if you send me the precompiled kernel module (along with some instructions or web resources how to install it). It is attached inside a ZIP file. This module is only for use with stock kernel, not power kernel! (Note for the Maemo Users List: This was a private e-mail message so the zip file hasn’t been sent to the list). First, open xterm and gain root access. Unzip the attached file. You will get omap_hsmmc.ko Make a backup of the old module: mv /lib/modules/2.6.28-omap1/omap_hsmmc.ko /lib/modules/2.6.28-omap1/omap_hsmmc.ko.backup copy the new module into /lib/modules/2.6.28-omap1/ Reboot and hopefully everything works. Be careful! if you made a mistake and didn't put the file in the right place, your N900 won't boot anymore! I suggest making a backup first just to be safe, in case you need to reflash. If your card was affected by this bug, hopefully using this module will now allow your card to work with no more corruption (after reformat). I’ve just finished the installation of your precompiled module. Everything has gone well. Thank you in advance! Is it possible to wait until the new power kernel (49) is released and then install it in a standard manner from the repositories? Or is it already available to install? It's already available, but is in extras-devel repository. If you're not comfortable using that, you can just use this attached module for use with the standard kernel instead. See http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=71879 for more info about power kernel. Lots of talk is about overclocking, but there are extra modules for things like IPv6 even if you don't overclock, it still has some fixes and advantages. Thank you again for your guidance. You are welcome, I hope it will solve your problem! Thanks, Paul Příloha sdfix.zip I’ve checked the card for bad blocks but fsck.ext3 hasn’t said if there are any. It has just said that it was updating the badblocks inode. Maybe there just aren’t any. It seems that no new filesystem corruption is being introduced when using your precompiled kernel module. I’ll report after further testing. Pavel ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Troubles with chrooted Debian
with the kernel at this moment… Maybe later.
I’d though appreciate if you send me the precompiled kernel module
(along with some instructions or web resources how to install it).
Is it possible to wait until the new power kernel (49) is released and
then install it in a standard manner from the repositories? Or is it
already available to install?
Thank you again for your guidance.
Pavel
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begin
Jméno('Pavel Řezníček');
Bydliště('Borová 18', '312 00', 'Plzeň');
Pracoviště('Korandův sbor', 'Anglické nábřeží 13', '301 00', 'Plzeň');
Result := 'vývojář a správce sítě';
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Troubles with chrooted Debian
My dear Maemo friends, On my N900, I use the Debian chrooted system but I very often run into troubles with it. To read quickly, go after the words in italics ;-) I just need to compile the Lazarus Free Pascal IDE for my device and/or to develop applications with it. Sometimes it happened when I had Debian in an image file that my N900 suddenly crashed and switched off during the installation of some packages into Debian. So I ran fsck, expecting some damage to the filesystem in that image file. But the corruption appeared so heavy that it was basically unrepairable. This happenened very frequently so I started to keep a backup of the standard 2GiB image. Still, the loss of work was very annoying… it’s a bit time consuming to backup 2GiB of data after each single step, don’t you think so? OK, I thought it was better to use a physical device, an MMC SD card. So I’ve formatted an 8GB card to ext3 and copied all the contents of the Debian image onto it using rsync. I’ve then modified the /home/user/.chroot configuration script accordingly. All has worked fine except that during installation of the compiled Lazarus (make install) a copy command has frozen for all the night. That was strange, so I pressed Ctrl+C with no effect. I tried to Close Debian. It has also hung. So I’ve turned my device off. OK, the first run of fsck on /dev/mmcblk1p1 has just recovered the ext3 filesystem journal. I’ve been curious then if there were some errors left there, so I’ve run fsck -f /dev/mmcblk1p1. Ouch! A destruction of the fs again! The side question: Is it a good idea to check an ext3 filesystem right after a journal recovery? Or should I first mount it? I’m apparently lacking an essential knowledge here. The main question: Is it possible to avoid severe filesystem damage during just normal but io-intensive operations on the Debian for armel on the N900? Thank you in advance for just any hint! Pavel Řezníček___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Troubles with chrooted Debian
2012/1/2 Michael Rösch ma...@dobiwe.de Am 02.01.2012 12:01, schrieb Pavel Řezníček: My dear Maemo friends, On my N900, I use the /Debian chrooted system/ but I /very often run into troubles/ with it. To read quickly, go after the words /in italics/ ;-) I just need to compile the /Lazarus Free Pascal IDE/ for my device and/or to /develop applications with it./ Sometimes it happened when I had Debian in an image file that /my N900 suddenly crashed and switched off/ during the installation of some packages into Debian. So I ran fsck, expecting some damage to the filesystem in that image file. But the corruption appeared so heavy that it was /basically unrepairable./ This happenened /very frequently/ so I started to keep a backup of the standard 2GiB image. Still, the loss of work was /very annoying…/ it’s a bit time consuming to backup 2GiB of data after each single step, don’t you think so? OK, I thought it was better to use a physical device, an MMC SD card. So /I’ve formatted an 8GB card to ext3/ and /copied/ all the contents of the Debian image onto it using rsync. I’ve then modified the /home/user/.chroot configuration script accordingly. All has worked fine except that during installation of the compiled Lazarus (make install) /a copy command has frozen for all the night./ That was strange, so I pressed /Ctrl+C with no effect./ I tried to /Close Debian./ /It has also hung./ So I’ve turned my device off. OK, the first run of fsck on /dev/mmcblk1p1 has just /recovered the ext3 filesystem journal./ I’ve been curious then if there were some errors left there, so I’ve run /fsck -f /dev/mmcblk1p1. Ouch! A destruction of the fs again!/ *The side question:* /Is it a good idea to check an ext3 filesystem right after a journal recovery? Or should I first mount it?/ I’m apparently lacking an essential knowledge here. I think fsck before mounting is never a bad idea. When the fs is damaged the mount can make things even worse. *The main question:* /Is it possible to avoid severe filesystem damage/ during just normal but io-intensive operations /on the Debian for armel on the N900?/ I am using my debian on an ext2-Partition for over a year now on two three different cards- never had any problems like you. I also use another ext3-Partition on the same card for data, the same here: no problems. Have you ever considered your sd-card may be broken or simply not suitable for the n900? Do you have the possibility to try another one? I using a Patriot 32Gb Class 10 now, before it was a Transcend 16 GB Class 6. CU Michael -- BOMBING for peace is like FUCKING for virginity. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users Dear Michael, thank you for your kind response! I'm glad to know that running fsck before mounting is never a bad idea [?] OK, *the SD-card may really be broken,* that's right. I have to go for one and buy it (or via an e-shop) as soon as I have the time. Or, I may *test this old one for bad blocks.* * * But *what was then wrong with my Debian when run from an image file* on the internal memory storage (/home/user/MyDocs/debian-m5-v3e.img.ext2)? As I mentioned before, during the installation process of some more packages, my N900 just went off regularly. Did you any time try to *upgrade your whole Debian system* (sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade without specifying a package)? This is what I actually tried a couple of times but always ended up in a switch-off in random stages of the package installation, resulting in a severe filesystem damage inside the Debian image file… The case with the installation of the Lazarus IDE on the SD-card and on an ext3 formatted partition might be related but also unrelated. So the next step is to check the card for physically bad blocks. I'll give it a try and report the results [?] -- Pavel Řezníček software developer and computer network administrator vývojář a správce počítačových sítí 328.png___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Fw: Re: ovi chat buddy
---BeginMessage--- It’s easy. Go to the Availability dialogue by tapping on the system status panel and selecting “My Availability” (or something similiar; I don’t know the exact words because I use the Czech locale). Then see the last and bottom item in the list of your instant messaging accounts which reads just as Accounts. From there, you should be able to delete the entry for the OVI messaging service. Have a nice day, Pavel -- Odesláno z mého telefonu Nokia N900 s linuxovým operačním systémem Maemo 5. Pavel Řezníček vývojář a správce sítě Farní sbor Českobratrské církve evangelické – Korandův sbor Anglické nábřeží 13 301 00 Plzeň - Původní zpráva - On Fri, 2011-10-28 at 22:03 +0200, Boris wrote: Hej all, every time I connect to the internet I get a message from servicebu...@ovi.com concerning 'the chat feature of this aplication is no longer available'. I did never chat and never will. How can I get rid of this? Thanks, Boris ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users I've also been getting this message for weeks (if not months). I'd like to know how to stop it. Rick ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users ---End Message--- ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Uninstalling Shortcutd
Thank you all very much. I edited the postinstall and preremove scripts and everything has started to work. I tried to enclose the cp and rm commands in an if-condition testing whether the file /tmp/shortcutd exists – in the postinstall script. There was still an error by running that condition so I tried to add an 'exit 0' command before it and the upgrade script silently finished with success. I then removed the exit statement but the erroneous condition didn't execute any more. Similarly with the preremove script. Then I reinstalled the shortcutd package and the new install ran without problems. -- Odesláno z mého telefonu Nokia N900 s linuxovým operačním systémem Maemo 5. Pavel Řezníček, vývojář multiplatformních binárních applikací a komponent a správce sítě Farního sboru Českobratrské církve evangelické Korandova sboru v Plzni Borová 18 31200 Plzeň mobil: +420721456079 stabil: +420373541714 - Původní zpráva - Look at the scripts in /var/lib/dpkg/info/ such as shortcutd.postinst and other shortcutd.* files, maybe they will give a clue about what it is trying or what's going on. Or maybe you can even edit them. (I've never tried it) 2011/3/9 Pavel Řezníček cig...@gmail.com: Thank you both, Francisco and Paul, I've tried and still no success. See for yourself in the attachment. - Původní zpráva - mount -o remount,size=5M /tmp f(t) On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+ma...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/3/9 Pavel Řezníček cig...@gmail.com: Hello everybody, I'm a new user of Nokia N900 and Maemo 5. I experience troubles upgrading or uninstalling the Shortcutd package. Could someone kindly help me to get rid of this bug? For a log file with the apt-get program output, see the attachment. Hi Pavel, Is your /tmp full? I think it's only 1 megabyte by default. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Uninstalling Shortcutd
Hello everybody, I'm a new user of Nokia N900 and Maemo 5. I experience troubles upgrading or uninstalling the Shortcutd package. Could someone kindly help me to get rid of this bug? For a log file with the apt-get program output, see the attachment. Pavel -- Odesláno z mého telefonu Nokia N900 s linuxovým operačním systémem Maemo 5. Pavel Řezníček, vývojář multiplatformních binárních applikací a komponent a správce sítě Farního sboru Českobratrské církve evangelické Korandova sboru v Plzni Borová 18 31200 Plzeň mobil: +420721456079 stabil: +420373541714 apt-get -y upgrade shortcutd Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... The following packages have been kept back: libsdl-mixer1.2 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up shortcutd (0.1.4-1) ... cp: cannot stat '/tmp/shortcutd': No such file or directory dpkg: error processing shortcutd (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: shortcutd apt-get -y remove shortcutd Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... The following packages will be REMOVED: shortcutd 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 246kB disk space will be freed. (Reading database ... 41311 files and directories currently installed.) Removing shortcutd ... dpkg: error processing shortcutd (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: shortcutd ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Uninstalling Shortcutd
Thank you both, Francisco and Paul, I've tried and still no success. See for yourself in the attachment. Pavel -- Odesláno z mého telefonu Nokia N900 s linuxovým operačním systémem Maemo 5. Pavel Řezníček, vývojář multiplatformních binárních applikací a komponent a správce sítě Farního sboru Českobratrské církve evangelické Korandova sboru v Plzni Borová 18 31200 Plzeň mobil: +420721456079 stabil: +420373541714 - Původní zpráva - mount -o remount,size=5M /tmp f(t) On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+ma...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/3/9 Pavel Řezníček cig...@gmail.com: Hello everybody, I'm a new user of Nokia N900 and Maemo 5. I experience troubles upgrading or uninstalling the Shortcutd package. Could someone kindly help me to get rid of this bug? For a log file with the apt-get program output, see the attachment. Hi Pavel, Is your /tmp full? I think it's only 1 megabyte by default. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users $ sudo mount -o remount,size=10M /tmp $ sudo apt-get remove shortcutd Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... The following packages will be REMOVED: shortcutd 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 246kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? (Reading database ... 41311 files and directories currently installed.) Removing shortcutd ... dpkg: error processing shortcutd (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: shortcutd $ sudo apt-get upgrade shortcutd Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... The following packages have been kept back: libsdl-mixer1.2 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Setting up shortcutd (0.1.4-1) ... cp: cannot stat '/tmp/shortcutd': No such file or directory dpkg: error processing shortcutd (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: shortcutd ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
