[Canola] Released : Canola2 beta9 Update. Please unninstall beta10, disable extras-devel

[handful]

Very important : Disable the extras devel repository

Hello everyone! After a huge break we are back with a new release. Actually this is more a fix to update all the libraries as we are officially releasing the new EFL based Carman as well.

This version is not Beta10 yet due to the instability caused to some core components while testing the beta10. So we decided to step back a little release just a updated for the new versions of the library, improved a little bit the core build system and for sure we debugged a little bit some core features. But honestly speaking no major changes on this version.

The main changes are coming in beta10, that will be starting next week, and also we are preparing the code and servers to receive the full source code, as our plan is to release Canola totally open source in beta10. Maybe it time to stop calling it beta.

So we apologize again to those expecting beta10, but we prefer not to release it instead of releasing a buggy version.

Stay tuned for more news, confirmed feature set for beta10 and the new website for the opensource release!

Very important : Disable the extras devel repository

It is very important that you disabled the extras devel repository. The extras devel is a developer grade repository meant to test highly advanced code in early stages, this means that it can break your apps if you mix stuff. So if you know what you are doing fine :) but if you have doubts it is better to just disabled it and prevent errors between newer version (beta10) files and the beta9 update files.

- Updated Enlightenment Foundation Libraries to SVN revision 36098.
- Adapted Canola code to the new version of the EFL.
- Updated light media scanner to the newest version (0.2.0).
- Adapted Canola code to the new version of LMS.
- Completely rewritten image thumbnailer which runs as a separate process.
- Updated youtube plugin to the new Youtube API.
- Small fix on the process of creation of user's ~/.canola directory.

Coming soon:

- The Canola theme maker webservice: you can upload your sliced images and we will compile and generate the installable theme for you
- A new upnp backend, that will allow the control point features you have been requesting
- Improved scanner / Cover art download system

How To install Guide
Please try to follow this, to avoid losing your data (.canola folder will be deleted if you use canola cleanup)

If you are running Canola beta9 (the regular release) and didn't try the beta10:
a. Please make sure you don't have the extras-devel repository enabled and...
b. just go to the application manager and update. Everything will work fine.


If you are running Canola beta10 :
a. Unninstall Canola beta10
b. Remove the extras-devel repository
c. Update / refresh the app catalogue
d. Install canola beta9 from it normally

If you are facing problems after doing that you can run Canola cleanup
but this will kill your .canola folder (your preferences, podcasts etc)
so you have 2 options :
a. backup manually your folder before runing canola cleanup
b. backup using the system utility for that.

We will improve the canola cleanup to add the option to preserve data, but this app was meant to clean really hard problems that could have damaged the structure of the .canola folder and thus prevents canola from working.



Best Regards,

Canola team

[grog]

I've downgraded & now get a pop-up "Local drive is out of space. Going to exit Canola" & it quits. I currently have 41.5M free on root & almost a gig free on each of the internal & external cards on my N810. No messages when I run it via command line, same problem. HELP!

[mfortner]

I'lll wait until Grog's issue is sorted.

[amigokin]

Canola is not what it supposed to be at the beginning of the year. The tablet software development is standstill. I see what the iphone became in one year and what the tablets are in three and I cry. I'm so disappointed...

[grog]

Canola is not what it supposed to be at the beginning of the year. The tablet software development is standstill. I see what the iphone became in one year and what the tablets are in three and I cry. I'm so disappointed...
I for one am not so quick to jump on that bandwagon. Give these guys some time, they'll sort it out. What more can you ask for free software & free tech support? :).

[Un27Pee]

I downgraded and there is nothing displayed when canola is started no icon, menu nothing, i uninstalled, reinstalled the same thing. i will check if there is some updates next week.

[michael9830]

this app has been a major dissapointment for me i had hope but now....

[handful]

Hi Guys,

Can you please me inform how did you downgraded? so we can replicate the issue here? Did you used the canola cleanup / cleanup from EXTRAS (not extras devel)
made sure you disabled extras devel etc?

This issues are clearly looking like conflict of versions.

As for the problems : I am really sorry. But as everyone knows this is a free software and we were trying to get people working (paid) on the software and they *** up the whole software. As I am really worried with the users and their opinions it was a painful decision but I decided to drop all the beta10 development done so far (a couple of months) because the situation was way worst than we could have imagined.

Luckly, I entered a personal fight and with the help of my boss got authorization to bring back in the team Barbieri and Ulisses, the main creators of Canola, so I would just ask a little bit of your patience that things will be back on track quite fast, and we have the plans up to 10 months of development for canola2 and ofcourse the main critics / bugs said here are top priority.

I kind of feel the same as said here, that the tablet software is "kind" of stopped, but We are at least trying to do our part. There's a couple of nice plans, but we are only 6 and a half people working on canola (now) it was way less before. So it's not fair to charge more than we can do, and we do that for free. We are going to deploy the full source, but being honest.. I don't believe the tablet devs will pick up and help it. Anyhow We are following a "dream" of having a "Canola2" non beta release where the basic features are rock solid and from there we are just going to make sure things are clear and clean for the users.

Sorry again for the mess on installation and uninstallation issues but let's be honest : the app installer also doesn't help. People do have several repositories, and even when you write on red, that extras-devel and extras conflict, they don't disable it. We will do our best, but this takes times and we need .. actually that's the only thing we ask from you in return : information when giving feedback.
Saying it doesn't work is not good. Say what you did, say your repositories say what happens if you type canola on xterm.

That will speed up everything

BR

Marcelo

[rdcinhou]

Downgraded to Beta9...

comments...stuttering video, aspect ratio in framed screen is off, but is correct in fullscreen.

[handful]

Rdcinhou :
(the stuttering video we have been talking about it quite many times: it's mplayer embedded mode in specific? versions is worse. unfortunately this we cannot do nothing but wait mplayer to improve) -
anyhow the important part is the aspect ratio:
So it's stretching on the non-fullscreen on youtube ? is that what you mean?
sorry for asking if it's dumb... but it's just to make sure.. (because it was not supposed to change from beta9 to this)

BR

Marcelo

[gazza_d]

Thanks Handful for all the hard work, and for fighting our corner. It's hard to ditch hard work that someone has completed, which is no good, or takes you down the wrong road - been through something similar at work myself.

Only thing is I managed to lose my canola DB when running cleanup.

Also - is there any sign of a Video podcast plugin, as that would make my media live complete!


thanks

gary

[handful]

Hi Gary,

thanks for the support. In a free product those are the things that make us go ahead.

Anyhow : We are still having small issues uploading the packages, and we wanted to make sure things are solid on track to put the new plugins back on track as well.

To be really honest : to enabled video podcast is just to add a couple of lines in the podcast, it is just a matter of getting things in the line :)

Let me know if anything else goes wrong so we can fix it !

Marcelo

[amigokin]

I kind of feel the same as said here, that the tablet software is "kind" of stopped, but We are at least trying to do our part. There's a couple of nice plans, but we are only 6 and a half people working on canola (now) it was way less before. So it's not fair to charge more than we can do, and we do that for free. We are going to deploy the full source, but being honest.. I don't believe the tablet devs will pick up and help it. Anyhow We are following a "dream" of having a "Canola2" non beta release where the basic features are rock solid and from there we are just going to make sure things are clear and clean for the users.

Handful don't get me wrong here: I *REALLY* appreciate the work you are doing with Canola. It is by far the best third-party app for the tablets and I love it.

But when I say I feel disappointed, I'm talking about the platform in general and its future. The tablet software development is dying and I feel very sad about that...

[handful]

Hi amigokin,

Yes I got your message :) it was me also feeling little disappointed. I have been using the G1 phone, the IPhone and other linux products, and to be in the tablet for so long and not seeing a good evolution towards a great product makes me sad as well.

I wish we had more work force to do more things, for sure we could help the tablets a lot. BUT it doesn't depend on us :)

At least I can say that we are still doing work, the problem now is that our "paid" job focus changed a little bit to the future tablets (maemo5?) and that makes Canola suffers a little bit.

Marcelo

[klinglerware]

I'm still using a Chinook version, since the Diablo version did not have support for ogg files. Is this actually true?

[handful]

Kling : the support is there. there's a full thread on this :)

[rdcinhou]

The aspect ratio problem is from multiple saved .flv files from various sources.

In the framed viewer window it seems to stretched to fit.

In full-screen view the aspect ratio is correct.

[handful]

@rdcinhou : yeah, it doesn't matter the source, .flv files are only played through mplayer, and mplayer cannot determine the aspect ratio with one opening. Some apps are opening the file twice to make it right, we've sent the patch to fix this but it seems it's not fully fixed.

: /

anyhow thanks for letting us now, as we will try to push this fix again,

Marcelo

[pycage]

mplayer cannot determine the aspect ratio with one opening.

No, it can. It reports the size after opening and you can resize the video window accordingly without having to open the video twice. It works well. I'm doing it this way.

[handful]

Hi pycage, then we need to fix. I am outdated in that issue than, and I believe you have used it quite a lot as well. So I remove my previous comment :) poor mplayer getting the blame from me :)

Thanks py.

[klinglerware]

Kling : the support is there. there's a full thread on this :)

Okay, so I uninstalled the old version, but the latest version of canola is not installing--the application manager is saying that I'm missing liblightmediascanner0.

However, I put my tablet in red pill mode and it is showing that I already have (what looks like the correct version of) liblightmediascanner0 installed. Seems strange...

[FRZ]

Hey, I like the ui of this program but, I can't find how to get the songs folder and how to set my playlist. So I rarely use it

[grog]

I've downgraded & now get a pop-up "Local drive is out of space. Going to exit Canola" & it quits. I currently have 41.5M free on root & almost a gig free on each of the internal & external cards on my N810. No messages when I run it via command line, same problem. HELP!
I uninstalled, used cleanup, rebooted then reinstalled & now I'm back up & running. Thanks for the great program! Makes using my IT all that much better.

[handful]

Okay, so I uninstalled the old version, but the latest version of canola is not installing--the application manager is saying that I'm missing liblightmediascanner0.

However, I put my tablet in red pill mode and it is showing that I already have (what looks like the correct version of) liblightmediascanner0 installed. Seems strange...

Hi Kling :

Did you disabled extras-devel after unninstalling beta10? It is needed that you have it disabled before installing the current version.

What you may be facing now is the conflict of development (extras-devel) package x official packages in extras.

If you do not have anything on your database (like podcasts etc) and want a fast solution, just run canola-cleanup and then install (making sure extras-devel is disabled)

It will work :) ... I hope :)

Marcelo

[handful]

Hey, I like the ui of this program but, I can't find how to get the songs folder and how to set my playlist. So I rarely use it

Hello FRZ :)

There's a user guide on the website :
http://openbossa.indt.org/canola2/using.html

That explains the basic of canola usage since it's launch.

The media library section :
http://openbossa.indt.org/canola2/using.html#mlib

Will show you how to add the folders to your media library
(this should be default we know, and it will be added in future versions)

But you need to mark (with a little v, by touching) the eyes on the folders / media cards name to get it scanned by canola, thus the music will show in your folders / media collection.

Finally :
http://openbossa.indt.org/canola2/using.html#playlist

This will show you how to use the simple on the move playlist, just click and hold a song to add it and then you can use the Playlist options in the song menu to access and play it. You are also able to save it and create new ones.

Hope this helps.

By the way :
Browse by folders in the music menu is in the bottom so you need to scroll the screen down a little bit :)

BR

Marcelo

[handful]

I uninstalled, used cleanup, rebooted then reinstalled & now I'm back up & running. Thanks for the great program! Makes using my IT all that much better.

Grog,

Happy to hear that it worked again :) I can only promise that we are really back on track now and you all will notice the difference... actually more or less the same original team back in work :)

BR

Marcelo

[etrunko]

I'm still using a Chinook version, since the Diablo version did not have support for ogg files. Is this actually true?

The ogg support in diablo already works. There is no reason for not upgrading your device anymore.

[Laughing Man]

Hmm when I try to uninstall Canola beta 10 (it says in uninstalling tab.. that it'll uninstall all the plugins (ok). But it'll also uninstall OS2008 feature upgrade? Uh..I really want to keep that.

[handful]

Laughing : no it wont.
if you only select canola beta10 to uninstall it will only remove canola. We do not mess with system upgrades :)

Marcelo

[klinglerware]

Thanks again handful & etrunko, I appreciate the responsiveness of you and the team.

Anyway, I figured out that the version of liblightmediascanner0 installed on my tablet refused to update to the latest version because it was associated with the Kulve ogg support package. So, I removed the Kulve package and Canola then installed without any problems.

However, I notice that my ogg files are not being indexed anymore. Is there something else that I am missing?

[slvr32]

Hi,

I keep running into issues with cover art for my mp3s -

Had beta8 installed before the update, and I only have the stock Diablo catalogs enabled (Nokia, Nokia 3rd party, System Software, and maemo Extras).

I've uninstalled everything and have run canola-cleanup, rebooted, updated the software catalogs, etc... a few times, and still don't have luck with cover art for mp3s.

Any help debugging/troubleshooting the canola-tuning-plugin and cover art fetching and/or other setup would be greatly appreciated.

Edit: I've watched the Beta9/10 updates for a while with interest, and I never had Beta 10 installed (just upgraded from Beta8). If this post would make more sense in the Beta9 bug reports, please feel free to move it, but I just wanted to be clear that I've been watching the Beta9 update(s) with interest, crossing my fingers that cover art would work again with another update.

Thanks.

[GeneralAntilles]

I kind of feel the same as said here, that the tablet software is "kind" of stopped, but We are at least trying to do our part. There's a couple of nice plans, but we are only 6 and a half people working on canola (now) it was way less before. So it's not fair to charge more than we can do, and we do that for free. We are going to deploy the full source, but being honest.. I don't believe the tablet devs will pick up and help it. Anyhow We are following a "dream" of having a "Canola2" non beta release where the basic features are rock solid and from there we are just going to make sure things are clear and clean for the users.


Wow, handful, that's really not a fun thing to have to go through. :( Canola, sadly, gets a lot of **** it doesn't deserve.

I hope you guys already know it, but it never hurts to be said twice, so I'll say again how much I appreciate the work INdT puts into Maemo. The tablets wouldn't be anywhere near where they are today without you guys. :)

I really hope the community comes out and surprises you by jumping right in and getting to work once the source is released, but, so far, its track record there hasn't been great. :(

[rafaelsemx]

Canola it's the most amazing piece of software I've seen in Maemo. Beta 10 has been working very well for me, and I'm very thankful for your work. Keep going guys. :D

[Bluedeer]

Fresh install of Chinook and a Fresh install of Canola2-Beta9, and files will not play when you go into 'All Songs' or 'Random Song'. Song titles show up, but upon clicking one, it goes in to play the song, then pops up a window with 'File Not Found'. But going in under 'Browse by Folder' and then selecting the folder the songs are in, works. What gives?

I discovered it after installing Carman, and then uninstalling both with the Cleanup tool (which deleted both Carman and Canola, oddly) and upon reinstalling, discovered the problem. It used to work just fine.

[Gorgon]

I noticed the updated to C2B9 when it hit the repositories and I must say that I am very impressed with the current level of responsiveness. The transition effects from the main screen icons (movie, music, etc.) are fantastic and there's an overall snappiness that wasn't in previous versions and it's very welcome. This is some of the best software I've used on the tablet, very polished and enjoyable. My only real issue at the moment (I haven't put this through it's paces to track all issues) is the start-up and shut-down speeds of the app. Is this due to library scanning upon start-up?

Keep up the great work guys! There are those that really appreciate the effort! :)

[handful]

I noticed the updated to C2B9 when it hit the repositories and I must say that I am very impressed with the current level of responsiveness. The transition effects from the main screen icons (movie, music, etc.) are fantastic and there's an overall snappiness that wasn't in previous versions and it's very welcome. This is some of the best software I've used on the tablet, very polished and enjoyable. My only real issue at the moment (I haven't put this through it's paces to track all issues) is the start-up and shut-down speeds of the app. Is this due to library scanning upon start-up?

Keep up the great work guys! There are those that really appreciate the effort! :)

Hi Gorgon, yes it unfortunately still scanning the media for integrity. We added in beta10, but the rollback removed this.

We are adding it again, so if you mark on the settings the option to "Disable scan on startup" it really speeds up the whole process :)

Br

Marcelo

[Howie_it]

Hi Guy,
I am one of those who had to go back to beta 9 to get youtube going again. I have one question though: I downloaded a whole bunch of clips before and they were in the mydownload folder but the beta 9 youtube plug in won't see it. It only picked up the one I downloaded after the down grade even tho' they are in the same folder. Any idea how to make it visible to the beta9 version?
Thanks
Howie

[dcolak]

I can't install the Beta9 update... it says "preparing to install" and then "operation failed" ...

What should I do to make it work?

The system is fresh, a couple of weeks ago I did the complete reinstall of the system...

Thanks.

[handful]

Hi Guy,
I am one of those who had to go back to beta 9 to get youtube going again. I have one question though: I downloaded a whole bunch of clips before and they were in the mydownload folder but the beta 9 youtube plug in won't see it. It only picked up the one I downloaded after the down grade even tho' they are in the same folder. Any idea how to make it visible to the beta9 version?
Thanks
Howie

Hi they will not appear in the youtube part, but you can add the folder where the videos are to the media scanner (settings -> media library - > media folders -> videos - mark the folder with the "eye with a V")

Br

Marcelo

[handful]

I can't install the Beta9 update... it says "preparing to install" and then "operation failed" ...

What should I do to make it work?

The system is fresh, a couple of weeks ago I did the complete reinstall of the system...

Thanks.

We need a little bit of more information :

Can you send us the log generated by the application installer? It says the reason why the install failed. Did you try enabling the "Maemo extras" repository in the application catalogue?

Go to the application installer,
hit the menu (the little icon in the title bar of the application)
and search for the application catalog option

once there the maemo extras will be disabled , try to enable it, refresh.

If your connection is ok, the refresh will be fine.. and canola will appear in the list of installable apps.

Try installing, if the error still happens you can find the log in the menu again (search for the option LOG) and send to us here the message.

This is probably by :

a. some connection problem
b. catalog conflict
c. proxy / any other filter in your connection.

Br

Marcelo

[slvr32]

Quick follow-up on my post on this page...

Is any of the mp3/cover art mechanism dependent on libssl? I've run canola -vv to try to take a closer look, but I realized last night that I was missing a libssl.so.0.9.7 dependency for gizmo (uninstalled a while ago, and tried downloading and installing gizmo again).

Thanks,
- Jason

[dcolak]

We need a little bit of more information :

Can you send us the log generated by the application installer? It says the reason why the install failed. Did you try enabling the "Maemo extras" repository in the application catalogue?

Go to the application installer,
hit the menu (the little icon in the title bar of the application)
and search for the application catalog option

once there the maemo extras will be disabled , try to enable it, refresh.

If your connection is ok, the refresh will be fine.. and canola will appear in the list of installable apps.

Try installing, if the error still happens you can find the log in the menu again (search for the option LOG) and send to us here the message.

This is probably by :

a. some connection problem
b. catalog conflict
c. proxy / any other filter in your connection.

Br

Marcelo

Thanks Marcelo,

Here is what the log has to say:

Installing canola2 2.0.0~beta9-maemo3
E: I wasn't able to locate file for the python2.5-feedparser package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package.(due to missing arch)

I installed carman without problems... :confused:

[etrunko]

Fresh install of Chinook and a Fresh install of Canola2-Beta9, and files will not play when you go into 'All Songs' or 'Random Song'. Song titles show up, but upon clicking one, it goes in to play the song, then pops up a window with 'File Not Found'. But going in under 'Browse by Folder' and then selecting the folder the songs are in, works. What gives?

I discovered it after installing Carman, and then uninstalling both with the Cleanup tool (which deleted both Carman and Canola, oddly) and upon reinstalling, discovered the problem. It used to work just fine.

Hi Bluedeer, we have uploaded the packages but for some reason they still don't appear in the extras repository for chinook. I've already asked for help for the Maemo Webmaster. Sorry about that.

The issue with the cleanup script removing Canola and Carman is known. We're working together with the Carman team to provide a solution that will work for both.

Best Regards, Etrunko.

[etrunko]

Thanks Marcelo,

Here is what the log has to say:

Installing canola2 2.0.0~beta9-maemo3
E: I wasn't able to locate file for the python2.5-feedparser package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package.(due to missing arch)

I installed carman without problems... :confused:

Carman does not use the feedparser package, that's why you have no problems to install it.

Can you please tell us which is your device (770, N800, N810) and which is the version of the firmware installed (OS2006 aka gregale, OS2007 aka bora, OS2007HE aka Hacker Edition, OS2008 aka chinook, OS200HE, Diablo)??

This may help us to find what exactly is your problem.

Thanks, Etrunko.

[Picklesworth]

With all this upgrading and downgrading, my wish for opml export / import of feed lists is growing stronger. Does any such option exist somewhere?

By the way, I notice canola-cleanup runs apt-get with --force-all, and other commands in a similar fashion where they will happily do anything without stopping to think. The idea is, naturally, so the user doesn't have to do anything.

It should be pointed out, however, that such behaviour in a script is very destructive and risks breaking something (possibly the device) without the user's knowledge. I REALLY suggest you remove that and have it simply run in a usable terminal where the user says "yes" or "no" to the prompts generated by those commands.

[dcolak]

Carman does not use the feedparser package, that's why you have no problems to install it.

Can you please tell us which is your device (770, N800, N810) and which is the version of the firmware installed (OS2006 aka gregale, OS2007 aka bora, OS2007HE aka Hacker Edition, OS2008 aka chinook, OS200HE, Diablo)??

This may help us to find what exactly is your problem.

Thanks, Etrunko.

It's N810 with os2008 version 4.2008.36-5

Canola install still not working :(

[levismith]

Ok, I've done a good bit of searching and can't seem to find anyone else having this problem: Canola will not save any of my media folder settings. I can add podcasts and internet radio stations without issue. But if I go to Media Folders and check the "eye" for any folder on any of the 3 storage devices for any music, photos or videos, it then says that it's scanning the library and acts normal, but then when I go to any of those sections in Canola it says No items found. Going back into the settings reveals that it has no checkmarks on any of the folders I previously checked. Repeating things has the same result.
I've uninstalled all Canola items, ran the cleanup, reinstalled only Canola (more than once) and still have the same problem.

Not sure if this is any help in identifying problems, but the Youtube plugin seems to work, but if I install the upnp plugin Canola won't even start.

Thanks!
Levi

[zwerfkat]

I have exactly the same problem, also with previous beta's. Canola has never been able to find any media file on my N810 although many are present (do you use English language on your NIT? Mine is set to Dutch..). Even when I only check the folder "Images" it takes quite a long time to scan this folder which looks strange to me... Podcast etc. are no problem indeed.

[rdcinhou]

Ditto zwerfkat...

I can't seem to find Media at all either. In fact the "UPDATING MEDIA LIBRARY" display holds for an awfully long time before returning to the Media Folders display.

This version (Beta9) seems to be "knackered" for me.

And yes, I have not only disabled but deleted the Extras-devel repository and run the Canola-Cleanup TWICE before each install.

To me it looks like something may have changed the files-associations, but I could be wrong.

Short of reflashing and reinstalling everything...how to fix?

[ossipena]

Ditto zwerfkat...

I can't seem to find Media at all either. In fact the "UPDATING MEDIA LIBRARY" display holds for an awfully long time before returning to the Media Folders display.

This version (Beta9) seems to be "knackered" for me.

And yes, I have not only disabled but deleted the Extras-devel repository and run the Canola-Cleanup TWICE before each install.

To me it looks like something may have changed the files-associations, but I could be wrong.

Short of reflashing and reinstalling everything...how to fix?
are your songs at m4a - format?

problem sounds familiar, will the issue be fixed soon?

it's pretty frustrating because 4 out of 6 media players doesn't see my itunes- songs. and those 2 are just uncomfortable to use, no id-tag -data...

[levismith]

I can say that mine are all just plain old mp3's for audio, jpg for pic and a few formats for vids. All of which were detected and worked on previous versions of Canola2. Though I can't say for certain which version they stopped working on...

[klinglerware]

However, I notice that my ogg files are not being indexed anymore. Is there something else that I am missing?

Okay, I figured it out. Upon re-installing canola, I discovered that I needed to also re-apply the LMS patch as described below

http://etrunko.blogspot.com/2008/05/ogg-support-on-canola2.html


My mistake was in assuming that this would be automatically handled by reinstalling the beta9 update. Just curious: any reason why this is still a separate step?

Great job on this application. Once there is FM radio support, a sleep timer, and the ability to easily change the song order on the playlist (like in mediabox), then I will be set!

[rdcinhou]

I am having the same problems of VERY L-O-N-G Discovering Media searches (even when constrained to just internal memory and afterward Canola2 reporting NO MEDIA FOUND when there is media present.

I installed the LMS patch as indicated above and still have the same result.

The installation log has SIX message pairs about "Ignoring version from wrong domain" for:

libelfg0 0.8.5-1osso1
libxml2 2.6.27.dfsg-1.maemo1
gpgv 1.4.6-2maemo1
libdb4.2 4.2.52+dfsg-2
libdb4.2 4.2.52+dfsg-2 (appears twice)
gnupg 1.4.6-2maemo1

I'm starting to get tired of installing/failing/uninstalling/clean-up (repeat) with no progress.

[Alphaman]

Been running Canola2 for a long time on my N800 w/ OS2008.

Currently have

Canola2 2.0.0-beta9-maemo1
canola2-cleanup 0.1.8-maemo3 (yes, I was able to upgrade this w/o complaint)
canola2-theme-deepblue 1.0.0-maemo4
canola2-tuning-plugin 0.1.0-maemo1
canola2-youtube-plugin 0.1.3-maemo1


Can't upgrade to 2.0.0-beta9-maemo3. I click on Update, OK, OK, and get "Unable to update canola2. Some application packages required for the update are missing." Details provides:

"Application packages missing:"

libfreetype6
libglib2.0.-0
libhildonfm2
libosso1
python2.5-terra
canolad
libfreetype6
libssl0.9.8


My log shows:
hildon-application-manager 2.0.2
[ Some installed packages are broken! ]
apt-worker command 4 already pending

That's not exactly a useful list of broken packages -- it's just a count. How are you supposed to find what's broken if all you've got is a number of the pkgs that are broken??? I've not had any problems with any other packages I'm running on the system.

But more to the point of this thread, how do I upgrade Canola2 if it thinks it's broken? (When in fact, it works quite well and is definitely NOT broken!?!)

[rdcinhou]

A little more feedback...in Media Folders selection, the check-marks don't persistent (i.e. don't stay checked)...no wonder it can't find media content.

[glima]

Been running Canola2 for a long time on my N800 w/ OS2008.

Currently have

Canola2 2.0.0-beta9-maemo1
canola2-cleanup 0.1.8-maemo3 (yes, I was able to upgrade this w/o complaint)
canola2-theme-deepblue 1.0.0-maemo4
canola2-tuning-plugin 0.1.0-maemo1
canola2-youtube-plugin 0.1.3-maemo1


Can't upgrade to 2.0.0-beta9-maemo3. I click on Update, OK, OK, and get "Unable to update canola2. Some application packages required for the update are missing." Details provides:

"Application packages missing:"

libfreetype6
libglib2.0.-0
libhildonfm2
libosso1
python2.5-terra
canolad
libfreetype6
libssl0.9.8


My log shows:
hildon-application-manager 2.0.2
[ Some installed packages are broken! ]
apt-worker command 4 already pending

That's not exactly a useful list of broken packages -- it's just a count. How are you supposed to find what's broken if all you've got is a number of the pkgs that are broken??? I've not had any problems with any other packages I'm running on the system.

But more to the point of this thread, how do I upgrade Canola2 if it thinks it's broken? (When in fact, it works quite well and is definitely NOT broken!?!)

Hi, Alphaman. It seems that it's not a Canola2 issue, but something wrong with application manager itself (the 'broken packages' warning accounts for an unsuccessful previous attempt of installing/upgrading/removing something). If you could, please, run as root, in a terminal, 'apt-get -f install' and paste here the output, we could judge better what is happening.

[Alphaman]

awesome. I didn't expect help here if it wasn't Canola-related, so I'm really appreciative!

Nokia-N800-51-3:~# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
garnet-vm
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 85 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 3015kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 23903 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing garnet-vm ...
Nokia-N800-51-3:~#

[zwerfkat]

A little more feedback...in Media Folders selection, the check-marks don't persistent (i.e. don't stay checked)...no wonder it can't find media content.

Same over here...

[rdcinhou]

This is what I get when running ROOT from ROOTSH in an XTERM session:

Nokia-N800-36-5:~# apt-get -f install

Reading packages lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded

I don't see a lot of information here to troubleshoot with.

[rdcinhou]

I solved my Canola 9 downgrade problem:

1. I uninstalled Canola 9
2. Ran Clean-up
3. Deleted nearly every repository that I could imagine (I'd deleted the Maemo Extras-Develop WAY back like the thread said) leaving only a core three.
4. I ran the apt-get -f install
5. I reinstalled Canola from the maemo.org board install link.

Now it works!

I just hope that I didn't break any other apps while getting it fixed.