Application Manager Problems - maemo.org

dormant | # 1 | 2010-03-30, 01:40 | Report

I haven't updated anything on my N800 (Maemo 4) for a while. Now I come to do it, I am having problems with the Application Manager.

At first it was OK, but I then got an out-of-memory message.

Since then, I can't start it without getting Operation Failed.

The log says:

Originally Posted by

hildon-application-manager 2.1.19.1
apt-worker exited
apt-worker: can't truncate lock /var/lib/hildon-application-manager/apt-worker-lock. No space left on device read: Bad file descriptor.

Using df to check space, /mnt/mtdblock4 is 99% full.

What/where should I delete?

buurmas | # 2 | 2010-03-30, 04:03 | Report

Originally Posted by dormant View Post

What/where should I delete?

I would start with your documents area. Any big downloads you don't need anymore? Anything you can move to a memory card?

Then if your browser has such a setting you could try clearing browsing history, etc.

Do you have any apps storing data in the device's main memory rather than on a memory card? If so, can you move the data? I'm thinking e-mails & media files mainly.

Hopefully that should get you enough space to work the Application Manager again. There, you can sort your apps by size and delete those you don't need.

Andre Klapper | # 3 | 2010-03-30, 11:22 | Report

What is the complete "df -h" output?

dormant | # 4 | 2010-03-30, 18:04 | Report

Originally Posted by Andre Klapper View Post

What is the complete "df -h" output?

Code:

Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mtdblock4            4.0M      2.6M      1.4M  65% /mnt/initfs
none                    512.0k    140.0k    372.0k  27% /mnt/initfs/tmp
/dev/mtdblock4          249.5M    246.9M      2.6M  99% /
none                    512.0k    140.0k    372.0k  27% /tmp
none                      1.0M     60.0k    964.0k   6% /dev
tmpfs                     1.0M         0      1.0M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/mmcblk0p1            1.9G    407.1M      1.5G  21% /media/mmc2
/dev/mmcblk1p1            3.7G      2.6G      1.2G  68% /media/mmc1

dormant | # 5 | 2010-03-30, 18:14 | Report

I found a couple of unneccessary files that could be deleted and got the usage back to 93% and application manager now works.

Time to tidy up methinks!

Thanks.

dormant | # 6 | 2010-03-30, 20:04 | Report

Not so fast, batman!

Still have problems.

When I try to install Canola2, I get an error

Originally Posted by

Conflicting application packages.
...
libcore0-desktop (0.9.9.050+svn38845-maemo1)

I guess I need to update that, but can't see which package it is in.

Help!

Edit: just seen that this is a Canola problem. Panick over.

Last edited by dormant; 2010-03-30 at 20:28.