General Program troubleshooting

From OESF

How to find out why a program doesn't start in Opie/QPE

Ever wonder why a program doesn't start in Opie/QPE? Heres how to find out what the error is:

I will use gaim as an example in this case.

1. Start the terminal or konsole

2. type cd /home/!QtPalmtop/bin/

3. do an ls to make sure that game is in there:

> ls

HancomMobileWord drawpad kaffe minesweep opierec security tmclock
addressbook embeddedkonsole kaffeh mooview osearch serialver today
advancedfm fifteen kbill native2ascii oxygen sfcave todolist
aliens formatter kcheckers neocal parashoot sheetqt usermanager
appearance gaim keypebble networksettings patience sketches wellenreiter
appletviewer getprofile kjc odict pocketcellar snake word.rc
aqpkg go kopi opera qasteroids sound wordgame
backup install-jar kpacman opie-console qcop sqlite zic
bounce jar language opie-login qpdf sysinfo zipsc
buttonsettings java launchersettings opie-reorgfiles qpe systemtime zmoney
buzzword javac lepgen opie-write qpsword tableviewer zsafe
calculator javadoc light-and-power opiealarm reader tetrix zshopi
citytime javakey mailit opieftp resistorUI textedit zuc
clock javap mediummount opieirc rmic tictac
datebook jdb mindbreaker opieplayer2 rmiregistry tinykate
>

gaim is there so now we type "gaim" and see what the error is.

> gaim

gaim: No such file or directory

Edit

Actually you might need to type ./gaim as /opt/!QtPalmtop/bin is often not in the PATH. The No such file or directory could be caused by this too. - lardman

Ah! there's my problem. My SD card isn't mounted.

Now your error message will most likely be differnt. I did this on the OZ rom so the path might not be the same on the Sharp Rom. The reason it gave me that error is becouse the SD card had for some reason became unmounted.