This is a quick log of my trials and tribulations trying to get pdaxqtrom v0.8.2 working. It looks like it works, but only time and experimentation will tell if any further problems occur. Hopefully this will help the next person to come along.
Thanks to xamindar, I have the squashfs files. I set about trying to install these on my Zaurus C3200 with Cacko 1.23. I put them in /hdd3/pdaxqtrom-0.8.2, went to superuser, and ran ./pdaXqtrom-install.sh
I enabled my swapfile with a size of 64 MB.
The installation seems to work. When I reloaded the tabs, I had a X/Qt tab. When I tapped "Start X" I got a nice X-Windows display with a window manager at the top and an xterm window.
From the X/Qt tab in the regular Cacko launcher, I tapped Firefox. The hard disk light blinked for a while, but nothing happened. In the xterm window, I typed "firefox" and got the following error:
/usr/lib/firefox/lib/firefox-1.5/firefox-bin: error while loading the shared libraries: /home/QtPalmtop/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_option_context_new
I had heard this was a problem, so I ran the "xqtcleanup" program and ran "./pdaXqtrom-install.sh" again. The installation seemed to work fine again. When I tapped "Start X" I got the same nice X-Windows display as before.
At the xterm window, I typed "firefox" and got the following error:
/usr/lib/firefox/lib/firefox-1.5/firefox-bin: error while loading the shared libraries: /home/QtPalmtop/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_bsearch_array_new
I ran the "cackofix" script but it didn't seem to have any effect.
I searched around and found this page:
http://www.solargate.ru/ustanovka-pdaxqtrom-v-cacko After running it through a Russian language translator, it seems they had the same problem. The page says to do this:
$ cd / home / QtPalmtop / lib
$ su $ su
# mv libgobject-2.0.so.0 libgobject-2.0.so.0.backup # mv libgobject-2.0.so.0 libgobject-2.0.so.0.backup
# ln -s /mnt/pdaXqrtom-base/opt/QtPalmtop/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 libgobject-2.0.so.0 # ln-s / mnt/pdaXqrtom-base/opt/QtPalmtop/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 libgobject-2.0.so.0
# mv libgmodule-2.0.so.0 libgmodule-2.0.so.0.backup # mv libgmodule-2.0.so.0 libgmodule-2.0.so.0.backup
# ln -s /mnt/pdaXqrtom-base/opt/QtPalmtop/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 libgmodule-2.0.so.0 # ln-s / mnt/pdaXqrtom-base/opt/QtPalmtop/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 libgmodule-2.0.so.0
# mv libgthread-2.0.so.0 libgmodule-2.0.so.0.backup # mv libgthread-2.0.so.0 libgmodule-2.0.so.0.backup
# ln -s /mnt/pdaXqrtom-base/opt/QtPalmtop/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 libgthread-2.0.so.0 # ln-s / mnt/pdaXqrtom-base/opt/QtPalmtop/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 libgthread-2.0.so.0
So I tried it. Then I typed "firefox" and waited. After much blinking of the hard drive light, I got the Firefox Import Wizard. I tell it to import nothing. And I wait.. and I wait. Gosh this is taking forever. I waited several minutes and still no error messages. I run "ps" and see that it hasn't crashed yet. I stopped X-Windows and tried it again. The same thing, waiting and waiting. I run "ps" and find that there are about 7 copies of "firefox-bin" running. I wait a while longer and things settle down. Now there are no copies of Firefox running at all. It looks like something is still wrong.
I tried running Firefox from the Cacko launcher. No Firefox import screen popped up. The hard disk light blinked for a long time. I could see copies of Firefox in the "ps" list. After a while, they all went away. This is really odd.
If it was an error message, I could look that up. Anyone have any advice on this one?
As a test, I tried to run a few other programs:
abiword:
(abiword:9688): Pango-WARNING **: No builtin or dynamically loaded modules were found. Pango will not work correctly. This probably means there was an error in the creation of:
'etc/pango/pango.modules'
You may be able to recreate this file by running pango-querymodules.
Aborted
So I ran "pango-querymodules > /etc/pango/pango.modules" as root and tried to run abiword again. WORKS!
dillo: WORKS!
dosbox: WORKS!
gnumeric: WORKS! (after fixing pango.modules)
gimp: WORKS! (after fixing pango.modules)
OpenOffice: Takes several minutes to load. WORKS! Even if it is incredibly slow.
firefox (another try): Beats on the hard drive for a while, spawns a couple copies of firefox-bin, then closes them all. Nothing ever comes up on the screen.
I figured it could be something to do with the settings so in my home directory, I renamed .mozilla to .mozilla.backup and tried running Firefox again. In "ps" I can see that about 6 copies of firefox-bin are run again and I see the Import Wizard pop up. This time I tell it to import from Opera and click Next. And I wait about a minute. And Firefox comes up! It WORKS! Horray! I even rebooted and tried it again. It does take Firefox about 2 minutes to start up, but it works!
Firefox is what I really wanted, so I'm going to declare victory for now.
-- Ryokio
Zaurus C3200
Cacko 1.23
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