[maemo-users] Canola never finds any media

[From: Danilo Cesar]

I had this same problem, but I solve it by adding a new user:

adduser --shell /bin/false avahi

Just remember to disable this user after that.


Danilo Cesar Lemes de Paula
UFPR - Ciência da Computação
http://www.danilocesar.com


Danilo Cesar Lemes de Paula
UFPR - Ciência da Computação
http://www.danilocesar.com


José Luís escreveu:
> Hi,
> 
> Recently, I have this problem too. This is because, canola's 
> installation was no successfully finished . This happen in the 
> installation of avahi-daemon (canola dependency), because he try to 
> access /etc/shadow file, but is not present in the n800 device. To solve 
> this I used xterm to create a /etc/shadow file based on /etc/passwd (see 
> shadow file in any linux distribution, for details) . After  creation of 
> /etc/shadow file, you can use the command apt-get install -f, to fix 
> canola's installation.
> 
> Good luck,
> José Luís
> 
> 
> On 9/6/07, *Steve Yelvington* <steve at yelvington.com 
> <mailto:steve at yelvington.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Is there some magic to making Canola actually find local media? Using
>     the Web-based configurator, I have /media/mmc1 and /media/mmc2 in the
>     Media Library. There are several gigs of MP3 files in folders on mmc1,
>     and I've rescanned until I'm blue in the face, but Canola still
>     can't do
>     anything but sit there and tell me "No items found" when I select "Audio
>     Library."
> 
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