Music/Pics lost & insufficient memory - N900 - maemo.org

BroisPlankton | # 1 | 2010-12-04, 19:41 | Report

Having (small) problems all of a sudden. The music player is not 'finding' my songs or pictures on the memory card. If I open the media player or the photos icon the pictures/music are not there. They do appear on the card itself and I can open from there. If I move music/pictures to N900 itself they do then appear.
I also cannot create avatars for my contacts: I am told I have 'insufficient memory'.
I updated to 'PR3' few weeks ago but all has been fine until today.Grateful for any advice.

BroisPlankton | # 2 | 2010-12-19, 18:06 | Report

Bump - anyone?

AgogData | # 3 | 2010-12-19, 18:33 | Report

first of all let me say welcome, you're obviously new and don't ask me why

in xterm type : df -h
you'll notice full rootfs and maybe full /opt, so you'll have to remove some applications/games and free some space then your music and pics will be available again.
N.B: by space you need to free i don't mean the MyDocs space where you put your music and pics..i mean the space where the apps/games are installed.

BroisPlankton | # 4 | 2010-12-20, 19:39 | Report

Does not seem to be that simple:
rootfs = 228M/131M
home/Opt =2G/304M
unless not understanding something

michaaa62 | # 5 | 2010-12-20, 19:57 | Report

Please post the output of

Code:

sudo gainroot
mount

to check if MyDocs is mounted at all. Then

Code:

sfdisk -l

will show the partitions of the internal and external (if any) cards. If /dev/mmcblk0p1 is still a partition then try to check the filesystem

Code:

fsck -f /dev/mmcblk0p1

Please post as much output as you can from the X-Terminal.

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BroisPlankton | # 6 | 2010-12-22, 15:24 | Report

OK I can run commands fine but I cannot copy Xterminal output to post. Nor do I have any obvious text editors or such on N900? Grateful for any advice.

michaaa62 | # 7 | 2010-12-22, 17:42 | Report

You may just redirect the output into a file by using '>' like that:

Code:

sfdisk -l > partitionlayout.txt

For a text editor

Code:

apt-get install leafpad

will install a graphical text editor

BroisPlankton | # 8 | 2010-12-23, 18:54 | Report

OK thanks very much. However for some reason the N900 is now finding the material on the memory card and is creating avatars. No idea why as I have changed nothing only added couple of apps.
Given that the problem has gone away perhaps we should close the thread. Although I always feel that things happen for reason - bit like a car.