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rebhana | # 1591 | 2010-07-17, 09:15 | Report

Originally Posted by Blooper1980 View Post

Can someone please, please assist? Where is that dam big file?

Easy Debian installs in /home/user/MyDocs. Open XTerminal and do

Code:

ls -l MyDocs/*ext2*

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ivnvir | # 1592 | 2010-07-17, 16:05 | Report

Originally Posted by fw190 View Post

I've updated easy debian and a problem came out for me. Again with the menu icon. It was in the left upper corner but when i tried to tap on it nothing was happening. The solution for this was easy. I've taped ot the upper part of the screen and the on Add/Remove Panel items and then deleted the menu icon from the panel and closed the window. The I've opened it again and added the menu icon and then moved it on the first place in the panel and now everything works perfectly.
maybe this will help someone

After closing and opening debian lxde again the problem comes back so I have to through the whole process again

Any fixed solution for this?

mankir | # 1593 | 2010-07-18, 11:52 | Report

"dpkg-reconfigure locales" didn't work for me with the karmic image.
But i changed LANG in /etc/environment and used "localedef -i de_DE -f UTF-8 de_DE" to get rid of the language related warning.

Unfortunately debwm/qobi-wmhint-fix give me: Xephyr cannot open host display. Is DISPLAY set? xephfocus/set-focus is working, but i'm loosing focus when i switch to Maemo. Any suggestions how to fix?

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Blooper1980 | # 1594 | 2010-07-19, 05:41 | Report

Originally Posted by rebhana View Post

Easy Debian installs in /home/user/MyDocs. Open XTerminal and do

Code:

ls -l MyDocs/*ext2*

Hi there.

I figured it out. When I installed the image I was in USB Mass storage mode and it did install it in the MyDocs folder, but when I unplugged the USB cable it went back to normal "Phone mode" and did not display the image files that was downloaded there. When I tryed the ls command in MyDocs while I was in USB mass storage mode it showed the 2 files again. I removed both image debain* files and now my /home is back to 50% again. Who would have thought!

Thanks for all the help. You guys rock!! No really.. You guys are awesome. I'm glad to be part of this amazing community!

rebhana | # 1595 | 2010-07-19, 10:49 | Report

Originally Posted by avidscavenger View Post

I'm using version 3.2.1-4 from sid.

But let me attach a file that consistently makes OO crash, and in the past has also made N900 crash. It basically happens when you scroll down to the bullet points. I had to upload it as a .zip as .odt's can't be attached.

I've noticed that now squeeze also has OpenOffice 3.2.1-4 which avidscavenger had problems with.

After making a backup of my current image, I've tested this version by upgrading with

Code:

apt-get update
apt-get install openoffice.org-writer openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-math openoffice.org-style-crystal openoffice.org-style-galaxy openoffice.org-style-hicontrast openoffice.org-style-tango openoffice.org-emailmerge python-uno
apt-get clean

In contrast to the previous version, I had to explicitly include python-uno in the above list, otherwise the upgrade would be incomplete and moreover Gimp would get de-installed. With it, Gimp gets upgraded from 2.6.7 to 2.6.10.

So far I found no problems with the newer version. Both OO and Gimp look fine, and I can read avidscavenger's file without any issues.

Last edited by rebhana; 2010-07-19 at 10:51.

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Deaconclgi | # 1596 | 2010-07-19, 11:18 | Report

Originally Posted by rebhana View Post

I've noticed that now squeeze also has OpenOffice 3.2.1-4 which avidscavenger had problems with.

After making a backup of my current image, I've tested this version by upgrading with

Code:

apt-get update
apt-get install openoffice.org-writer openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-math openoffice.org-style-crystal openoffice.org-style-galaxy openoffice.org-style-hicontrast openoffice.org-style-tango openoffice.org-emailmerge python-uno
apt-get clean

In contrast to the previous version, I had to explicitly include python-uno in the above list, otherwise the upgrade would be incomplete and moreover Gimp would get de-installed. With it, Gimp gets upgraded from 2.6.7 to 2.6.10.

So far I found no problems with the newer version. Both OO and Gimp look fine, and I can read avidscavenger's file without any issues.

Hello,

What is the command to enable squeeze? I couldnt get it enabled using the wiki. Also, do I use the debian xterm or the maemo xterm to enable squeeze and update OO and Gimp. I know these may be questions with obvious answers to some but I need help with updating and your successful update has encouraged me to try again.

Thank you.

rebhana | # 1597 | 2010-07-19, 14:08 | Report

Originally Posted by Deaconclgi View Post

Hello,

What is the command to enable squeeze? I couldnt get it enabled using the wiki. Also, do I use the debian xterm or the maemo xterm to enable squeeze and update OO and Gimp. I know these may be questions with obvious answers to some but I need help with updating and your successful update has encouraged me to try again.

Thank you.

In the Debian chroot terminal (red swirl icon) open the file /etc/apt/sources.list with an editor of your choice, e.g.

Code:

leafpad /etc/apt/sources.list

and then uncomment the line

Code:

#deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian squeeze main contrib non-free

i.e., remove the "#".

See http://wiki.maemo.org/Easy_Debian#In...g_Applications

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mankir | # 1598 | 2010-07-19, 23:27 | Report

Just for information, when i tried to upgrade i had to export TMPDIR= to any directory except rootfs (/user/lost+found/ for example. May be this could prevent programms from crashing, when rootfs is very full!

vdubbs85 | # 1599 | 2010-07-20, 02:00 | Report

Hi All;

I'm not sure whether or not this has yet been covered (I searched the thread and came up empty) but after the PR1.2 update, the fn key seems to function as another enter key under LXDE, which makes it rather difficult to type in numbers. This is an issue seeing as I can no longer type in IP-addresses in applications such as wireshark and zenmap.

I'm currently running from a ext2 partition on my memory card, and have changed nothing since before PR1.2

Any ideas?

avidscavenger | # 1600 | 2010-07-20, 06:30 | Report

I've found a sure-fire way to make my N900 crash using Easy-Debian. I'll look in greater detail if noone replies but thought I'd write about it first in case it's immediately obvious to someone else is what the problem is.

The thing I'm doing that's a bit unusual is that I'm mounting a LUKS-encrypted ext2 partition on my micro-SDHC card. This is important to me as I want to carry data with me that, for contractual reasons as well as common sense, needs to be encrypted. If I don't mount this partition then I don't get the crash. I haven't tried non-encrypted or other filesystems to see if that helps to isolate the problem.

OK, so on a freshly booted N900, running from a shell over ssh, I do the following to mount my partition:

$ cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/mmcblk1 mmc1
$ mount -t ext2 /dev/mapper/mmc1 /media/mmc1

then

$ debbie
Starting Debian shell...
Chroot dir specified: /.debian
No image file or partition specified.
ls: /media/mmc1/debian*.img*: No such file or directory
Mounting...
using image file: /home/user/MyDocs/debian-m5-v3d.img.ext2
fs type is ext2
Using ext2 file system
mounting /home/user/MyDocs/debian-m5-v3d.img.ext2 on the turbo-loop

.../home/user/MyDocs/debian-m5-v3d.img.ext2 mounted on loop1
.
..
...
....
Updating the /etc/mtab file...
Everything set up, running chroot...
[user@chroot: /]exit
exit

So far so good. Now I attempt to close the debian turbo-loop:

$ sudo closechroot
Closing the chroot...
...closing chroot apps...
Terminated

And my N900 bites the dust....... Any ideas?