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My Nokia N900 File manager not showing up or working

Hi,

I was using Nokia N900 for 1 year 6 months. Now i have a problem. the file manager is not working and because of that the camera and other applications also stoped working. When i connect N900 thru mass storage mode, i cant see the other folders like DCIM and others. Please help me how i could resolve this problem.

Thanks in advance,

Regards,

-Srini.

Re: My Nokia N900 File manager not showing up or working

First try to check the file system of the partition.
You need rootsh to be installed, for that code to work in X-Terminal application.

Code:

sudo gainroot

umount /dev/mmcblk0p1

There should be an error if the device is unmounted, like i think it is. Then proceed

Code:

fsck -af /dev/mmcblk0p1

mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /home/user/MyDocs

Please post the complete error message(s), if any, here for further inspection.

Re: My Nokia N900 File manager not showing up or working

hi,

Thank you very much for your reply.

i got the following error.....

/home/ user # unmount /dev/mmcblk0p1
/bin/sh: unmount: notfound
/home/user # fsck -af /dev/ /dev/mmcblk0p1
fsck 1.41.3.maemo0 (12-oct-2008)
dosfsck 2.11, 12 Mar 2005, FAT32, LFN
mount /dev/ /dev/mmcblk0p1: 4681 files, 126858/442377 clusters

/home/user # mount /dev/ /dev/mmcblk0p1 /home/user/MyDocs
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
mount: mounting /dev/mmcblk0p1 on /home/user/MyDocs failed:Device or resource busy
/home/user#
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Re: My Nokia N900 File manager not showing up or working

kindly help me to solve this problem. i love my n900 so much that i dont want to lose it. I am even okay to flash the device completely if it solves the problem.

Re: My Nokia N900 File manager not showing up or working

I'm not sure if I can help you or not, try to give us the output if you type this in XTerm:

Code:

/usr/bin/ossofilemanager

Re: My Nokia N900 File manager not showing up or working

Quote:

Originally Posted by parandsri (Post 1219915)

Quote:

Originally Posted by michaaa62 (Post 1219775)

First try to check the file system of the partition.
You need rootsh to be installed, for that code to work in X-Terminal application.

Code:

sudo gainroot

umount /dev/mmcblk0p1

There should be an error if the device is unmounted, like i think it is. Then proceed

Code:

fsck -af /dev/mmcblk0p1

mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /home/user/MyDocs

Please post the complete error message(s), if any, here for further inspection.

the proper command is umount, not unmount

EDIT: just made a quick test:

Code:

root

umount /media/mmc1/

umount /home/user/MyDocs

exit

ossofilemanager

pops up and simply reports [no files/folders]
actually this might be an easier way to exclude that the binaries are not corrupt :confused:

Re: My Nokia N900 File manager not showing up or working

Hi misterc

Thanks for your reply. Sorry. but i tried with umount command now. still no result. the file manager opens but i cant see any files in there.

it says "(no files/folders)" inide file manager...

Kindly let me know what to do...

Re: My Nokia N900 File manager not showing up or working

Quote:

Originally Posted by parandsri (Post 1219927)

this is what you should do:

open a new X Terminal windows ([S _] icon)

Code:

root

umount /dev/mmcblk0p1

fsck  /dev/mmcblk0p1

please post back the exact output of each command.

Re: My Nokia N900 File manager not showing up or working

@misterc
apologise if i commit mistake

but after fsck /dev/mmcblk0p1
either reboot or
mount /dev/mmcblk0p1

Re: My Nokia N900 File manager not showing up or working

this is what i got after i typed your command...

/home/user # umount /dev/mmcblk0p1
/home/user #fsck/dev/mmcblk0p1
fsck 1.41.3.maemo0 (12-oct-2008)
dosfsck 2.11, 12 Mar 2005, FAT32, LFN
/dev/mmcblk0p1: 4681 files, 126858/442377 clusters
/home/user #