[maemo-developers] Boot bora as root

[From: Kalle Vahlman]

2007/4/19, Chris Taylor <chtaylo4 at gmail.com>:
> looks like you ran  strace with /usr/bin/run-standalone.sh
> /usr/bin/maemo-summoner /usr/bin/osso-application-launcher .... I
> couldn't get that to work .....

I ran it like this (from a ssh shell):

  strace /usr/bin/maemo-summoner /usr/bin/osso-application-installer.launch

The .launch-file is the real binary, the one without is just a symlink
to maemo-invoker that tells a separate maemo-launcher process to load
and run the .launch (simple, eh?-). This is a gross hack (though it
does work ;) to speed up application startup time. Maemo-summoner is a
tool to do that directly so you can run strace and gdb for them
without recompiling to a "normal" binary.

> also looks like there might be some problems with gtk ... that's the
> best reasoning I can come up with to explain things not getting drawn
> to screen

If the socket read/open blocks, it won't refresh the UI either. It's
not a threaded application AFAICT.

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Kalle Vahlman, zuh at iki.fi
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