[maemo-developers] Having trouble installing the scratchbox development environment.

[From: Marius Gedminas]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 03:46:28PM +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> I'm following the instructions in
>   http://inz.fi/blog/2007/10/22/multi-target-development-for-maemo/
> as advised by Graham Cobb, and have run into a snag.

Been there, done that, have a working scratchbox.

(Actually, two, because http://maemo-sdk.garage.maemo.org/install.html
also worked for me, and seems a bit simpler to set up.  It's not the
official way though, and it's an early alpha version, so beware.)

> When I get to the point of creating the bora rootstrap, it tells me:
> 
> hendrik at lovesong:~$ sb-conf rs mistral-armel /scratchbox/packages/mistral-armel-rootstrap.tgz
> ERROR: You don't have a Scratchbox user account!

You need to run

  sudo /scratchbox/sbin/sbox_adduser $USER

you'll get prompted whether you want to add $USER to group 'sbox';
answer yes and then log out/log back in, or run the following commands
in a subshell spawned by 'newgrp sbox'.  The 'su - $USER' trick might
also work; I hadn't known about it, but it makes sense.

> One relevant point: The instructions said, "when it asks for users to add 
> to scratchbox, just choose your user (and whomever might want to do 
> scratchbox development on the box)."  But it has never asked for users.

Perhaps your debconf priority is set to a high level, so you don't
get asked unimportant questions like that ;-)

> How do I fix this up after the fact?

With sbox_adduser.

By the way, if you run a recent distro with a recent kernel, you'll get
other problems in the future.  Errors like

  "Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1192: dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!"

are fixed by

  echo 0 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/vdso_enabled

and

  "mmap: Permission denied"

is fixed by

  echo 4096 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr

HTH,
Marius Gedminas
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