[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Starting application from task navigator menu won't work

[From: sami.ronkainen at nokia.com]

Hi all,

I created a small helloworld application and created the .deb package
pretty much by copying stuff from Jarkko Oikarinen's Mammasnake package
(by the way, a million thanks to Jarkko for not using autotools - for a
newbie like me the shell script is way, way, WAY easier to understand
than autotools scripts)

Anyway - I manage to install the package to a real N770 device and it
shows under "Extras" in the menu - but selecting it doesn't do anything.
In fact, the only thing that happens that I no longer can start anything
(like file manager or anything under Games etc) from the task bar menu
anymore. Otherwise the device works fine - I can e.g. adjust volume
settings from the top right corner.

Any ideas for what could be wrong? I checked with "ps -aux | grep user"
in XTerm on the device and apparently my application does not even
start, so the problem is likely to be somehow with the installation
package, not the actual application.

As I said, I pretty much copied the package.sh script, the .service
file, the .desktop file, and the control file from the Mammasnake
package by replacing all 'mammasnake' references with the name of my own
application. So the links etc should work fine.

Oh, and I did the whole compile under ARM target and checked (with
'file') that the executable really is an ARM executable.

			-Sami-