[Canola] Canola2 Beta5 Feedback Thread
 

Hi Guys,

I think I fell asleep and didn't post here the changelog or more information.
Chenca has already talked to some of you in some of the threads, but heres goes a "official" release note :)

Beta5 is up, and it's a middle point for the beta6, actually it was supposed to be beta4, but some problems appeared, to make sure it works for everyone we updated to beta5 already.

So, beta5 still a bug fix release, we are launching it because a lot of serious problems were reported and we wanted to make sure people get those fixes. Also, very important : with beta5 and so on.. you can "backup" canola using the backup application from maemo now :)

What's not in: Blue theme, Youtube, Last.fm

What's in : Zoom in the photo viewer and a lot of bug fixes

Here goes the changelog :

Beta 5

A bug with media library access was found that broke podcast after refreshing the media library It also wasn't able to play back mp3, due to missing id3 library files (id3.so) in Light Media Scanner plugin packages

Beta 4
Canola ¶

* Podcast: many fixes, removal of leaks, do not hardcode cover path, new Current Downloads and Queueing support.
* Play audio of videos inside podcasts.
* Internet Radio: support URIs that are not feeds but direct streams (.ra, .mp3)
* Settings: fix "locks" in Media Library folder selection interface.
* Settings: new option to keep choose whether the display should be lit or not while charging.
* Fix problem with database not finding your media the first time after selecting it in "Settings > Media Library".
* Reload cover inside the player when it is changed.
* New (and larger) network and battery icons.
* Fix bug in "cover change" when changing Canola theme.
* Parse various feeds using threads, to avoid UI lockup.
* Feeds are now downloaded to ~/.canola/tmp (or what is specified in the 'temp_dir' setting) and deleted afterward.
* Zoom and pan in photos fullscreen view

Atabake ¶

* Fix volume problems when using mplayer as backend.

Python-downloadmanager ¶

* Queuring
* Better API
* Fixed problem with progress

Canolad (daemon) ¶

* Use new LMS plugin for id3 parsing.
* Fix bug when removing items from scanned folders by type (audio/video/photo).

Python-terra ¶

* Escape titles in Main Window.

So this basically means :

Podcast is working better now, but we still not supporting feedburner correctly (coming in next release), people have requested to have a setting about turning the display off you got it. And LMS (the media scanner is finding MUCH more music now) Thanks for the help on this, and I would ask the asian guys to test it agains your library of japanese and chinese songs to see how it goes now, as we are running to support you better guys!

UPDATE: video showing the zoom feature
: http://marceloeduardo.blip.tv/#692953
Thanks in behalf of the team

Marcelo

Re: Canola2 Beta5 Release note (Sorry for being late)
 

Unable to install right now. Will this get fixed?

Re: Canola2 Beta5 Release note (Sorry for being late)
 

Tmilr87 : we have been tracking, it seems that some users has a combination of :
alternative repositories (from canola2 beta1 launch) + old libraries, and in the end it gets messy, As you can see in other threads others users were able to install so it's not a problem that happens everytime people try to install.

I already asked information from you : about log files, repositories you have and so on, so we can help you figure out what's happening in your system.

If possible : use the cleanup install and send to us (via Private message) the text that Canola-cleanup says, this can also help us if you have some problems with dependencies.

Br

Marcelo

Canola2 Beta5 Feedback Thread
 

Re: Canola2 Beta5 Feedback Thread
 

I did the canola2-cleanup a few days ago, then got the Internal Card read-only bug and had to reformat the internal memory card.
I can't remember I did install canola2 beta 1 since my last re-flashing, but I am getting now errors of missing library:

liblightmediascanner0 (= 0.1.3-maemo1) (this appears several times)
along with
lightmediascanner0-*

Should i run the canola2-cleanup again ?

EDIT:

I did solve it by running the canola2-cleanup and installing it from the Terminal !?
first I did an apt-get -f and it reinstalled a few packages I am sure are related to Canola2 (but they should not have been installed!) (like libevas)

Then i did apt-get install canol2 and it complained about:

dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `libevas0-loader-png' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.

but went ahead. Also complained when stopping a few daemons and tried to kill some process:

Unpacking atabake (from .../atabake_0.1.2-maemo1_all.deb) ...
Stopping atabake
-sh: /usr/bin/atabake: not found
Selecting previously deselected package python2.5-downloadmanager.
Unpacking python2.5-downloadmanager (from .../python2.5-downloadmanager_0.2.2-maemo1_all.deb) ...
Restarting download_manager_server
killall: download_manager_server: no process killed
Stopping downloadmanager
-sh: /usr/bin/downloadmanager: not found
Selecting previously deselected package canolad.
Unpacking canolad (from .../canolad_0.1.2-maemo2_all.deb) ...
Stopping canolad
-sh: /usr/bin/canolad: not found

Of course this was not an update, so there was no such daemons of processes running.
At the end it installed and looks like is working, but something went wrong, it should have been an issue-less upgrade.

ideas ?

Re: Canola2 Beta5 Feedback Thread
 

Can I pick my own album cover with this version?

Re: Canola2 Beta5 Feedback Thread
 

amigokin,

In Beta5 the "Pick from file" feature is not implemented, but you can choose the correct (or more beautiful, more clean, etc...) album cover when Canola-Tuning lists more than one cover for the same album.

How do you store your covers ? I'm asking this because Canola-Tuning looks for album covers in several "places" (embedded, in the album directory, amazon and last.fm sites).

Re: Canola2 Beta5 Feedback Thread
 

Canola Tunning can't find covers for many of my albums...

Anyway, I just have to wait ;)

Re: Canola2 Beta5 Feedback Thread
 

or... you can tell me how your covers are organized and I can make a fix for Canola-Tuning :-)

Re: Canola2 Beta5 Feedback Thread
 

Amigokin: is your cover on folder / embbed? ou do you say when downloading from internet?

If from the internet ? if so can you check on amazon to see if it's there... if not : / then you will need to either put on the folder or wait for the pick from file :)

Re: Canola2 Beta5 Feedback Thread
 

Anidel :
Yes, but there's one addition to the whole equation that is very complicated to fix :
people still have "untraceable" behaviors like : some people used the edje demos, some others installed canola1 from the alternative repository, some others have old libraries that for some reason don't get updated, the app manager is clearly breaking sometimes and with some people by no reason and it's not "fully reproduceable".

So while we do fight to see what's doing that we did actually decided that we will keep improving the components, because what seems to be that we would need to developer our own "canola installer" to make sure all the points are under our control.. but this is impossible and it's not good for the platform.

Thanks for the feedback, but it's always hard there's people that doesn't now how to pass us the info and thus we try to improve on the dark : /

For example : we do clean install in EVERY device, with EVERY firmware (except 2008 for 770) and for several times in a row. It always work.

Then we do updates from the beta3 in the same situation it always go, but... sometimes from nothing the clean install breaks. Server? Application manager bug? Corrupted packages? Hard to now.: /

Re: Canola2 Beta5 Feedback Thread
 

Hi Handful (and whoever else is interested)

I'm still having issues downloading podcast feeds. Would you like me to post the URLs in the bug report area of the garage again?

Re: Canola2 Beta5 Feedback Thread
 

MontanaVike,

Please post a Bug report in the Garage with this URL's.

Thanks

Re: Canola2 Beta5 Feedback Thread
 

just checking in to find out if anyone either has or has found a reason as to why C2 just stays at the green screen with nothing in the middle after loading components. I just did a fresh install of the 2007he version and I've had this problem with all versions of C2. I just flashed to HE, so I shouldn't have any crap. Any help would be great.

Re: Canola2 Beta5 Feedback Thread
 

dburr10085,

Please run canola in the terminal with the option "-vvvv"

canola -vvvv

and post the backtrace.

Re: Canola2 Beta5 Feedback Thread
 

Wasn't it that Canola2 doesn't work on the HE ?

@handful: I know, trust me, I know how you do feel :)

Thanks


EDIT: sorry, that was mplayer :P

Re: Canola2 Beta5 Feedback Thread
 

MontanaVike : there's still problems with feedburner (it's on the release note)
we are improving it, but the podcast doesn't not support all feeds available out there still...
So please send us the feeds you are having problems we will add to the list (if you did so) they are there.. but we didn';t clean it up still : /

Marcelo

Re: Canola2 Beta5 Feedback Thread
 

Amazon won't find them because they are local bands from Argentina.

The thing is I can't upgrade Canola-tuning to the lastest version (0.2.5), I get the "Software contains updates to packages isntalled from a different source..." message.

:-S

Re: Canola2 Beta5 Feedback Thread
 

/ $ canola -vvvv
1203697438.8077 DEBUG manager:156:get_class() looking for first class with filter 'MainController'
1203697438.8144 DEBUG manager:114:get_classes() looking for classes with filter 'MainController'
1203697441.6748 DEBUG manager:156:get_class() looking for first class with filter 'Model/Notify'
1203697441.6812 DEBUG manager:114:get_classes() looking for classes with filter 'Model/Notify'
1203697441.8499 INFO plugin_manager:156:_load_plugins() loaded plugin 'Notify Model' with filters ['Model/WaitNotify', 'Model/YesNoDialog', 'Model/Notify']
1203697441.8563 DEBUG manager:156:get_class() looking for first class with filter 'Model/WaitNotify'
1203697441.9368 DEBUG manager:114:get_classes() looking for classes with filter 'Model/WaitNotify'
1203697442.0170 DEBUG manager:156:get_class() looking for first class with filter 'Model/Notify/Error/PluginNotFound'
1203697442.0985 DEBUG manager:114:get_classes() looking for classes with filter 'Model/Notify/Error/PluginNotFound'
1203697442.2795 DEBUG manager:156:get_class() looking for first class with filter 'Model/Notify'
1203697442.2850 DEBUG manager:114:get_classes() looking for classes with filter 'Model/Notify'
1203697442.4916 INFO plugin_manager:156:_load_plugins() loaded plugin 'Errors' with filters ['Model/Notify/Error/PluginNotFound', 'Model/Notify/Error']
1203697442.5823 INFO plugin_manager:156:_load_plugins() loaded plugin 'Main Controller' with filters ['MainController']
1203697443.3676 DEBUG controller:129:get_controller_for_model() looking for controller for model with filter 'Model/WaitNotify' ...
1203697443.4120 DEBUG controller:107:get_controller_class_for_model() looking for controller class with filter 'Controller/WaitNotify' ...
1203697443.5853 DEBUG manager:156:get_class() looking for first class with filter 'Controller/WaitNotify'
1203697443.5910 DEBUG manager:114:get_classes() looking for classes with filter 'Controller/WaitNotify'
1203697445.0487 INFO plugin_manager:156:_load_plugins() loaded plugin 'Notify UI' with filters ['Controller/Notify', 'Controller/WaitNotify', 'Controller/YesNoDialog']
1203697445.0554 DEBUG controller:111:get_controller_class_for_model() found controller class with filter 'Controller/WaitNotify'!
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "ecore.c_ecore_timer.pxi", line 12, in ecore.c_ecore.timer_cb
File "ecore.c_ecore_timer.pxi", line 74, in ecore.c_ecore.Timer._exec
File "plugins/canola-core/main/controller.py", line 184, in _lazy_init File "plugins/canola-core/main/controller.py", line 87, in __init__
File "plugins/canola-core/main/controller.py", line 95, in _connect_to_canola_daemon
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/_dbus.py", line 291, in connect_to_signal
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 152, in connect_to_signal
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/_dbus.py", line 179, in add_signal_receiver
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 25, in __call__
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 102, in __call__
File "dbus_bindings.pyx", line 466, in dbus_bindings.Connection.send_with_reply_and_block
DBusException: Could not get owner of name 'br.org.indt.canola.Daemon': no such name
Killed

Re: Canola2 Beta5 Feedback Thread
 

handful, is there anyway to change the clock to AM/PM instead of 24 hour? If not, may I suggest it? (unless it's to complex to change).

Re: Canola2 Beta5 Feedback Thread
 

dburr10085,

This is a problem with Canola-Daemon, try to reboot the device and start again. If this doesn't work, run Canola-Cleanup and re-install Canola2 following the tutorial on Canola website and reboot the device.

Maybe you already did some of this steps, but is very important to do all steps in this order.

Let me know the result

Re: Canola2 Beta5 Feedback Thread
 

Hello - I just did the steps you mentioned above and I got the same thing. So far, I have run the cleanup, uninstalled via xterm, and installed right after a fresh OS2007he install. I've had the same thing every time. Any other ideas about what it could be?

does Canola-Daemon deal with any other applications or libs that could be causing the problem? I have to run mplayer 2006?? because of HE. The only other software I have on here right now are streamtuner and vagalume client.

Re: Canola2 Beta5 Feedback Thread
 

Could you please try this:

$> canolad stop
$> canolad start -vvv --logfile=log.txt
$> canola -vvv

and post log.txt here ?

Thanks

Re: Canola2 Beta5 Feedback Thread
 

canolad start -vvv --logfile=log.txt
I got a permission denied after this command

also - where would i find the log.txt files?
**I appreciate so many helping - maybe we can get it working**

Re: Canola2 Beta5 Feedback Thread
 

Hi, the log.txt file will be inside the same directory that you typed the command above.

could you please post the result of the following commands also:

$> whoami
$> ls -l /usr/bin/canolad

Thanks!

Re: Canola2 Beta5 Feedback Thread
 

/ $ whoami
user
/ $ ls -l /usr/bin/canolad
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3799 Feb 21 17:39 /usr/bin/canolad/ $

Re: Canola2 Beta5 Feedback Thread
 

Hmm. Weird that "permission denied". Let's try this:

$> canolad stop
$> canolad start -vvv --logfile=/home/user/log.txt
$> canola

then post here log.txt.
Sorry for all these steps but it's really hard to remote debug something without user help =P

Thanks!

Re: Canola2 Beta5 Feedback Thread
 

Jabastien : do you use the N810? Did you formated your internal memory to prevent from a known bug?

b) -> check the info on other threads about how to change the cover folder to the media card :)

Re: Canola2 Beta5 Feedback Thread
 

After installing Beta5, a strange box like character begins the album and track names. Canola-Tuning can no longer download the art images. My album was fine in Beta3.

How can I relocate cover folder to external storage?

Re: Canola2 Beta5 Feedback Thread
 

I have an N800 - os2008 rev 51-3 firmware - 2x 8Gb SDHC.
Beta3 was fine then I decided to upgrade to Beta5. I used the canola-cleaner before installing beta5.
I had no problem before hand.

I did not format the SD card since I have not experienced file corruption.

Re: Canola2 Beta5 Feedback Thread
 

jabastien,

Could you send this MP3 to us ?

Re: Canola2 Beta5 Feedback Thread
 

then post here log.txt.
Can you tell me the command from xterm. I don't know how to get to the log.txt file

Re: Canola2 Beta5 Feedback Thread
 

Here's a screen capture of canola Beta5

The mp3 file is 5 meg and i can not post it here. please provide an email address for the zip file.

Re: Canola2 Beta5 Feedback Thread
 

You can just copy it to your mmc and then use it on your computer or you can use the "Notes" application on your tablet to view the file.

If you prefer you can also do:

$> cat log.txt (or cat /media/mmc2/log.txt, depending on what you did on the previous step to generate the log)

Thanks

Re: Canola2 Beta5 Feedback Thread
 

hey yeah im actually having the same problem as jabastien - which as a side note didn't show up when i was using beta3 so it's either a consequence of the update process or something in the changes i guess.

Re: Canola2 Beta5 Feedback Thread
 

jh : and jabastien, please Private message me, I will send my email so you can send some of the files to us to test.

Jh13: yeah. maybe the new scaner got them, but they still have problems. Theres's one ocasion that we really cannot help : when the software that wrote the tag confuses the encoding, using one..and saying that is using other. if that's is the case, but sorry we will not fix this for the users : /

Br

Marcelo

Re: Canola2 Beta5 Feedback Thread
 

Marcelo: I checked the tags in Mp3tag v2.39 see the screen capture below.

Re: Canola2 Beta5 Feedback Thread
 

jabastien & jh13 tag issue is aligned with what I reported earlier this evening in the Canola IRC Channel.

I have re-checked my tags on the mp3 file I sent to Chenca earlier this evening, I do not believe at this stage that it's and issue with my tagging that causes the box character to appear on newly added Albums since moving from beta 3 to beta 5 of Canola2. (i.e. since the scanner re-scanned for newly added files under beta 5?)

Please note : That the same tags on the mp3 file are read correctly by the build in Media Player.

Re: Canola2 Beta5 Feedback Thread
 

Hi guys,

Thanks for the fast replies and files, we found and fixed.
According to André (Andrunko) the problem was that he is parsing utf-16 little and big endians but not pure (the case of you and also MY music) so now it seems to be working perfectly :)

Box now just on really not supported / bugged characteres, so we are not studying how to update this to you, and of course testing a lot before doing it!

Marcelo

Re: Canola2 Beta5 Feedback Thread
 

Well, and I'm still facing "Random song bug" but now I've found some dependency. It plays the first second of (-35 to -33) track. Current track - 35 positions :) And It plays it only when current track were played fully from beg to end. And it plays random song very fast. Without any loading like normal playback. Maybe this info will help somehow.
P.S.: C2 doesn't show small thumbs of .png files.