Re: Boot bora as root

2007-04-26 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Chris Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > yes, I did get your private mail and you were correct as to the > cause of my problem.. I'll look forward to seeing sardine roll out. > Is the application installer from sardine binary compatible with bora? No, packages compiled in Sardine uns

Re: Boot bora as root

2007-04-23 Thread Felipe Contreras
Hi, On 4/20/07, Chris Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm trying to create a ScratchBox build env on my FC6 and it looks like I've got to recompile the kernel to enable VDSO ... whatever that is... after I get that working I'm going to try and build a debug version of the application-installer

Re: Boot bora as root

2007-04-20 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Chris Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > at any rate any ideas what might be causing the socket to fail? Chris, did you get my private mail? I explained a bit there. (I didn't see this thread until now, sorry.) In a nutshell, the frontend starts the backend via sudo, and that migh

Re: Boot bora as root

2007-04-19 Thread Chris Taylor
He probably changed so many files' permissions and ownerships, that he could not recall it even under hypnosis. no permissions really and actually the list of things I had to change is rather quite small when I get around to it (hopefully this weekend) I'll post a patch ... hopefully someon

Re: Boot bora as root

2007-04-19 Thread Chris Taylor
> also looks like there might be some problems with gtk ... that's the > best reasoning I can come up with to explain things not getting drawn > to screen If the socket read/open blocks, it won't refresh the UI either. It's not a threaded application AFAICT. https://stage.maemo.org/svn/maemo/p

Re: Boot bora as root

2007-04-19 Thread Zoran Kolic
> still no luck on getting application installer to run > as far as some programs not working when unning as root per Zoran's > comment, I see no reason why they shouldn't (I accept that they might > not, but they probably should IMO) ... these internet tablets have a > LOT of potential >

Re: Boot bora as root

2007-04-19 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 09:50:35 +0300, ext Eero Tamminen wrote: > ext Kalle Vahlman wrote: > > 2007/4/19, Chris Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> looks like you ran strace with /usr/bin/run-standalone.sh > >> /usr/bin/maemo-summoner /usr/bin/osso-application-launcher I > >> couldn't get that to

Re: Boot bora as root

2007-04-18 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Kalle Vahlman wrote: > 2007/4/19, Chris Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> looks like you ran strace with /usr/bin/run-standalone.sh >> /usr/bin/maemo-summoner /usr/bin/osso-application-launcher I >> couldn't get that to work . > > I ran it like this (from a ssh shell): > > strace

Re: Boot bora as root

2007-04-18 Thread Kalle Vahlman
2007/4/19, Chris Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: looks like you ran strace with /usr/bin/run-standalone.sh /usr/bin/maemo-summoner /usr/bin/osso-application-launcher I couldn't get that to work . I ran it like this (from a ssh shell): strace /usr/bin/maemo-summoner /usr/bin/osso-applica

Re: Boot bora as root

2007-04-18 Thread Chris Taylor
Kalle, I did an strace: # strace -f /usr/bin/osso-application-installer but I died at a completly different location: execve("/usr/bin/osso-application-installer", ["/usr/bin/osso-application-instal"...], [/* 54 vars */]) = 0 uname({sys="Linux", node="Nokia-N800-10", ...}) = 0 brk(0)

Re: Boot bora as root

2007-04-18 Thread Kalle Vahlman
2007/4/18, Chris Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Well, still no luck on getting application installer to run the window pops up and nothing is drawn to the screen anyone have any ideas? FWIW, I have this same problem, and the process seems to block somewhere using the apt-worker sockets:

Re: Boot bora as root

2007-04-18 Thread Chris Taylor
Well, still no luck on getting application installer to run the window pops up and nothing is drawn to the screen anyone have any ideas? I may have to compile up a custom version of the application installer and see where it's crapping out as far as some programs not working whe

Re: Boot bora as root

2007-04-18 Thread Zoran Kolic
> That was my assumption also. I changed the occurances of use/users > (one occurance of systemui/users) to root/root in the init scripts > so I changed out all the references to /home/user to /home/root and > made a symlink from /home/root to point to /root I then copied > over (without overw

Re: Boot bora as root

2007-04-17 Thread Paul Klapperich
On 4/17/07, Chris Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: simple, I don't do sudo ;) But there is no visible sudo in the GUI. Installing an app, for example, doesn't require the user switch to root or initiate gksudo. If it's just the term you're after, setting the xterm to root ownership and marki

Re: Boot bora as root

2007-04-17 Thread Chris Taylor
Yes, some rationale in such wiki page would be nice. I admit I'm baffled by this and would like to achieve enlightenment. How is this useful? Perhaps next step is running everything in kernel mode? simple, I don't do sudo ;) -Chris ___ maemo-develo

Re: Boot bora as root

2007-04-17 Thread Frantisek Dufka
Paul Klapperich wrote: By nature of it being a wiki, IMHO you should go ahead and do whatever you want. I'm still now sure what benefit this gives you on an embedded device that doesn't ask for authentication anyway. Yes, some rationale in such wiki page would be nice. I admit I'm baffled b

Re: Boot bora as root

2007-04-17 Thread Paul Klapperich
By nature of it being a wiki, IMHO you should go ahead and do whatever you want. I'm still now sure what benefit this gives you on an embedded device that doesn't ask for authentication anyway. --Paul On 4/17/07, Chris Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whatever is launching X is going to be

Re: Boot bora as root

2007-04-17 Thread Chris Taylor
Whatever is launching X is going to be what tells it the user to run the graphical environment as. That was my assumption also. I changed the occurances of use/users (one occurance of systemui/users) to root/root in the init scripts (and in a few places in /etc/osso-af-init) ...so I thought that

Re: Boot bora as root

2007-04-17 Thread Paul Klapperich
Whatever is launching X is going to be what tells it the user to run the graphical environment as. On a desktop it's GDM, XDM, or KDM. Poke around in /etc/init.d/ and figure out which one it is, and then on a desktop linux system or using google figure out what you need to do for automatic user lo

Boot bora as root

2007-04-17 Thread Chris Taylor
Hello all, I was wondering if someone could give me a little guidance on getting bora on the N800 to boot as root. I've tried the following: giving user a uid/gid of 0/0 editing the init scripts to run as root/root and the gui as root/root also tried systemui/root loading the developer fs (tho

Re: Boot bora as root

2007-04-17 Thread Ross Burton
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 11:31 -0400, Chris Taylor wrote: > what I'd really like is a login Install a SSH server and you can just ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED