I was tracking down the mystery of the disappearing MeeGo MIDI files. Apparently, I made the mistake of putting the midi files used for http://qtractor.sourceforge.net into my ~/Music directory, which is also where MeeGo's media player looks for music. That's just the way I've always organized things after decades of using Unix/Linux for multimedia. And I have a ~/Music directory that is specifically organized so a number of different applications can all know where to find their needed audio components.
I was also wondering why MeeGo 1.2 Netbook had created a bunch of directories that weren't there previously and moved all my music into them (explains why 'tracker' was so busy).... I Is there any way of disabling all this stuff, which is very Apple-like in it's behavior and disruption to the location of one's precious media files. (IMHO meego install needs a choice to allow different open-source media players to be installed -- not everybody likes banshee as a media player, and nobody expects the files&documents in their directories to move around on them "behind their back" -- especially when Qt makes it really easy to create a music player using a local mysql datastore so that you've got a scalable means of mapping of metadata to your existing system media files. It's just a bad idea to even get involved in failure-prone (buffer overflow sploit anyone?) parsing, tagging and moving of media files around. Well all my missing files have moved here -- good thing what I have on the netbook is just a copy of what I have on RAID-1 on my desktop... ...................... td ~/Music/Unknown\ Artist/Unknown\ Album/ total 640661 -rw-rw-rw- 1 npm npm 59254 2032-01-01 00:00 Cognito.mid -rw-r--r-- 1 npm npm 846217 2011-02-26 08:58 mnbmnb-Track_1-1.ogg -rw-r--r-- 1 npm npm 5052766 2011-02-26 01:09 qchordub-Track_2-1.flac -rw-r--r-- 1 npm npm 158 2011-02-24 21:44 xxx-Track_1-2.mid -rw-r--r-- 1 npm npm 484 2011-02-24 21:42 xxx-Track_1-1.mid -rwxr-xr-x 1 npm npm 24178847 2011-02-21 09:18 09 - Owed T'Alex.flac* -rwxr-xr-x 1 npm npm 28666625 2011-02-21 09:17 07 - Floppy Boot Stomp.flac* -rwxr-xr-x 1 npm npm 11438691 2011-02-21 09:17 05 - Flavor Bud Living.flac* -rwxr-xr-x 1 npm npm 17036252 2011-02-21 09:17 04 - Poop Hatch.flac* -rwxr-xr-x 1 npm npm 37646079 2011-02-21 09:17 10 - Odd Jobs.flac* -rwxr-xr-x 1 npm npm 39510452 2011-02-21 09:17 11 - The 1010th Day Of The Human Totem Pole.flac* -rwxr-xr-x 1 npm npm 21005218 2011-02-21 09:17 02 - Seam Crooked Sam.flac* -rwxr-xr-x 1 npm npm 23868760 2011-02-21 09:17 03 - Harry Irene.flac* -rwxr-xr-x 1 npm npm 3806193 2011-02-21 09:17 12 - Apes-ma.flac* -rwxr-xr-x 1 npm npm 10823281 2011-02-21 09:17 08 - A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond.flac* -rwxr-xr-x 1 npm npm 33099218 2011-02-21 09:17 06 - Brickbats.flac* -rwxr-xr-x 1 npm npm 35720921 2011-02-21 09:17 01 - Bat Chain Puller.flac* -rwxr-xr-x 1 npm npm 71815714 2011-02-21 09:09 RA202_100412_Thomas-Fehlmann_residentadvisor.net.mp3* -rwxr-xr-x 1 npm npm 4567771 2011-02-21 09:06 15-CD1-UGLY-Sunfire - FYA feat. Suncycle.mp3* -rwxr-xr-x 1 npm npm 2220649 2011-02-21 09:06 peverelist - the grind.mp3* -rwxr-xr-x 1 npm npm 3784098 2011-02-21 09:06 05-CD1-UGLY-Fix Up, Look Sharp - Dizzee Rascal.mp3* ........................ Also, while tracker/banshee are doing their thing, it seems like a lot of system freezes and kernel spewage ensues... (This may ultimately be the reason why my networking goes flaky when I'm dumping media files in to my ~/Music directory.... see http://lists.meego.com/pipermail/meego-dev/2011-February/481727.html ) See http://nielsmayer.com/meego/netbook-ia32-1.2/tracker-banshee-kernel-fail.txt for /var/log/messages output related to tracker and banshee failing. For example: ............................ Feb 26 01:07:35 meegolem klogd: [21367.828638] __alloc_pages_slowpath: 15 callbacks suppressed Feb 26 01:07:35 meegolem klogd: [21367.828652] banshee-1: page allocation failure. order:1, mode:0x20 Feb 26 01:07:35 meegolem klogd: [21367.828663] Pid: 5591, comm: banshee-1 Tainted: G W 2.6.37-7.28 #1 Feb 26 01:07:35 meegolem klogd: [21367.828670] Call Trace: Feb 26 01:07:35 meegolem klogd: [21367.828688] [<c151029d>] ? printk+0xf/0x11 Feb 26 01:07:35 meegolem klogd: [21367.828703] [<c10a21f0>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x4ab/0x59e Feb 26 01:07:35 meegolem klogd: [21367.828716] [<c10c3516>] ? cache_grow.clone.39+0x38/0x214 Feb 26 01:07:35 meegolem klogd: [21367.828728] [<c10c3579>] cache_grow.clone.39+0x9b/0x214 Feb 26 01:07:35 meegolem klogd: [21367.828740] [<c10c3905>] cache_alloc_refill+0x213/0x25a Feb 26 01:07:35 meegolem klogd: [21367.828754] [<c10c3a1b>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0xcf/0x1da Feb 26 01:07:35 meegolem klogd: [21367.828767] [<c131fa85>] ? ath_rxbuf_alloc+0x21/0x88 Feb 26 01:07:35 meegolem klogd: [21367.828779] [<c13ffbd0>] __alloc_skb+0x54/0xf3 Feb 26 01:07:35 meegolem klogd: [21367.828790] [<c131fa85>] ath_rxbuf_alloc+0x21/0x88 Feb 26 01:07:35 meegolem klogd: [21367.828810] [<f87ffeeb>] ath_rx_tasklet+0x2ca/0x4e8 [ath9k] Feb 26 01:07:35 meegolem klogd: [21367.828829] [<f87fdbce>] ath9k_tasklet+0x9e/0x116 [ath9k] Feb 26 01:07:35 meegolem klogd: [21367.828842] [<c103cc2d>] tasklet_action+0x80/0x17d Feb 26 01:07:35 meegolem klogd: [21367.828855] [<c103d8a7>] __do_softirq+0x11c/0x273 Feb 26 01:07:35 meegolem klogd: [21367.828865] [<c103d78b>] ? __do_softirq+0x0/0x273 Feb 26 01:07:35 meegolem klogd: [21367.828872] <IRQ> [<c103daa0>] ? irq_exit+0x41/0x80 Feb 26 01:07:35 meegolem klogd: [21367.828891] [<c10044a2>] ? do_IRQ+0x84/0x98 Feb 26 01:07:35 meegolem klogd: [21367.828901] [<c1002eae>] ? common_interrupt+0x2e/0x34 ................................ See http://nielsmayer.com/meego/netbook-ia32-1.2/meego-networking-fails-syslog.txt for more context on the ath9k/tracker/banshee tango on the Lenovo s10-3t running meego-netbook-ia32-1.1.90.4.20110222.2.img . Help? Niels http://nielsmayer.com _______________________________________________ MeeGo-community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-community http://wiki.meego.com/Mailing_list_guidelines
