Error when Installing or Uninstalling Applications with Application Manager on N900 - maemo.org

felipebzr | # 1 | 2010-01-14, 10:59 | Report

Hi All,

When I try to uninstall any application with Application Manager on N900 the follow message is displayed:

Unable to unistall 'APPLICATION NAME'

The same error occurs when I try to install new applications or update with Application Manager.

Does anyone knows how to fix this problem?

Thanks!

Rob1n | # 2 | 2010-01-14, 11:12 | Report

Make sure you've not filled up the rootfs ("df -h" in X Terminal).

felipebzr | # 3 | 2010-01-14, 11:27 | Report

Originally Posted by Rob1n View Post

Make sure you've not filled up the rootfs ("df -h" in X Terminal).

Hi Rob1n, Thanks for your quick reply. I have used 87% of rootfs.

Rob1n | # 4 | 2010-01-14, 11:32 | Report

That should be okay then. You could try uninstalling using "apt-get remove" from X Terminal - that should at least provide more information on what's going wrong. You'll need to know the actual package name though.

felipebzr | # 5 | 2010-01-14, 11:39 | Report

Originally Posted by Rob1n View Post

That should be okay then. You could try uninstalling using "apt-get remove" from X Terminal - that should at least provide more information on what's going wrong. You'll need to know the actual package name though.

Install or uninstall any application by using "apt-get" redirects to the follow error. Is there a way to brute remove dosbox?

dpkg: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 8676 package 'dosbox':
EOF during value of field ' Maemo-Icon-26' (missing final newline)
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

Rob1n | # 6 | 2010-01-14, 11:47 | Report

Okay, there's some corruption in the files. I'd suggest going into App manager and disabling all the repositories, then exit, go back in & re-renable them all. That should force a flush & redownload of all the package metadata.

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felipebzr | # 7 | 2010-01-14, 13:26 | Report

Originally Posted by Rob1n View Post

Okay, there's some corruption in the files. I'd suggest going into App manager and disabling all the repositories, then exit, go back in & re-renable them all. That should force a flush & redownload of all the package metadata.

Same error trying to uninstall or upgrade apps on device... running "apt-get update" on console outputs a lot of errors like this one:

Temporary failure resolving 'repository.maemo.org'
Ign https://downloads.maemo.nokia.com ./ Release.gpg
Err http://repository.maemo.org fremantle/non-free Translation-en_GB

Rob1n | # 8 | 2010-01-14, 13:30 | Report

Perhaps http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=40455 ?

demiurgus | # 9 | 2010-01-14, 13:40 | Report

This happened to me to and this is how I solved it. You need rootsh and a console editor (or skill with grep and head+tail).

My /var/lib/dpkg/available file had become corrupted, something had added a lot of junk in the end. So as root I edited with nano and removed a lot of ^@ characters from the end and made sure there was an empty line last, just in case. Then App manager worked again.

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felipebzr | # 10 | 2010-01-14, 15:28 | Report

Originally Posted by demiurgus View Post

This happened to me to and this is how I solved it. You need rootsh and a console editor (or skill with grep and head+tail).

My /var/lib/dpkg/available file had become corrupted, something had added a lot of junk in the end. So as root I edited with nano and removed a lot of ^@ characters from the end and made sure there was an empty line last, just in case. Then App manager worked again.

Upgrading for the firmware 2.2009.51.1 solved the problem