[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Re: Troubles installing Herring

[From: Neil MacLeod]

Aniello Del Sorbo wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> it's been three days since I've been trying to install Herring/Sardine 
> onto my 770 ("Melkor").
> 
> At first I tried to install Sardine, but whenever I booted Melkor from 
> the MMC I got a white screen (as explained in this bug report:
> 
> (https://maemo.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=910)
> 
> Thus I choose to try our Herring.
> 
> I decided to start from scratch: I flashed Melkor to IT2006 
> (SU-18_2006SE_2.2006.39-14_PR_F5_MR0_ARM) and installed OSSO XTerm and 
> flashed with the new initfs as explained in the instructions.
> 
> Copied the IT2006 onto the MMC again and tried to boot from it. It worked.
> 
> Restarted from the flash, I then chrooted to /opt, changed the 
> sources.list (I just left the herring repository inside) and did this:
> 
> apt-get update (worked fine)
> apt-get install hildon-application-framework
> 
> This already gave me some errors (same as Sardine however), specifically:
> 
> /bin/sh: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: not found
> 

I don't think this is an issue.

> and
> 
> ldconfig: Can't open configuration file /etc/ld.so.conf: No such file or 
> directory
> 

After chroot, execute "touch /etc/ld.so.conf" to create the missing file in which case you won't see this error during the update.

> (the latter, of course, for many packages)
> 
> I went forward and did the:
> 
> apt-get upgrade
> 
> it gave me the very same errors (sardine had more, so I think that was 
> related to some relatively new changes to the sardine reps) plus this:
> 

At some point it should have output a message saying that several packages were being withheld - you should have made a note of these packages and installed them manually at the end. The lack of these packages will probably result in a white screen on boot.

> ***
> * Updating MIME database in /usr/share/mime...
> * Warning: Unknown media type in type 'sketch/png'
> ***
> 
> (every now and then)
> 
> and:
> 
> Setting up libx11-6 (1.0.0-6osso4) ...
> fgrep: invalid option -- x

Probably not good.

> 
> moreover, when it tried to stop maemo-launcher it told me that that was 
> not running:
> 
> Stopping Maemo Launcher: maemo-launcher not running.
> 

Remember that you are upgrading a chroot filesystem - to all intents and purposes nothing is running which is why you can update the OS.

> while, when trying to starting it up again:
> 
> Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/maemo-launcher ...
> Starting Maemo Launcher: maemo-launchermaemo-launcher[3539]: GLIB 
> CRITICAL ** Gdk - gdk_display_close: assertion `GDK_IS_DISPLAY 
> (display)' failed
> .
> 
> maemo-defender: died stating file a: '/proc/3541/exe'
> maemo-launcher: error rising the oom shield for pid=3541 status=7680
> 

See above - you're updating the chroot'ed filesystem so the updater is simply getting confused here. I don't think the above is an issue (would be nice if the installer were a bit smarter though).

> 
> and it stopped here.
> 

Sounds about right.

> an: apt-get upgrade  didn't give me any issues, so I tried to reboot.
> I kept the MENU key pressed, but it keeps booting from flash (even if I 
> read the line "keep MENU key pressed for advanced options bla bla"...)
> 
> Did something went really wrong ? and what ?

Are you not getting the boot options screen? For me it pops up automatically with a 30 second countdown timer, I don't need to press the menu button at all. I think the 770 will boot from internal flash if the device you are trying to boot from is invalid - if you do get the boot options screen perhaps your MMC filesystem is corrupted.

Before rebooting the 770 I think it's always useful to execute sync (three times - just an old habit! sync will flush any unwritten system buffers) then run "shutdown -r now" (having exited from the chroot fs) to reboot the device. Depending on how you reboot your 770 it may lead to a corrupt MMC/ext2 file system.

> 
>  From what I have understood the first errors should be normal and cause 
> no harm. But the last ones ?
> 
> Any ideas ?
> 
> -- 
> anidel