Please Help: Problem with Datebook

[psunittany]

INFO:
Zaurus 5500
Sharp ROM: 3.10

I am having problems with my Datebook. When I open it up, I cannot switch to the full month display. As soon as I switch to it, it immediately exits. If I start the datebook up from the terminal, I switch to month display, it immediately exits and the following message is printed:

\"geclient_sendcommand(): server child accidentally finished!\"

I think it may be related to the installation of ipkgs. When an ipkg is installed, a thumbtack is shown on the calender in the month view. This started after recent ipkg installs. I don\'t think that it is related to any specific ipkg, but I think it is somehow related to how the datebook displays the thumbtack showing that a package was installed. Is there any way of shutting that display off? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[tumnus]

Please read this FAQ:

http://www.zaurususergroup.com/modules.php...parent_id=0#295

[psunittany]

Thank you very much.  This wasn\'t directly my problem, but it had something to do with the permissions on the sd card.  I have the links to the sd and cf cards shut off, but I was still having the problem.  When I changed the permissions of the Document dir on the sd card to zaurus.qpe, it works ok now.  Again, thanks for pointing me toward that FAQ entry.

[moregrey]

I\'m having exactly the same problem, but the fixes in the FAQ don\'t seem to make any difference. I changed the ownership of both /home/zaurus/Documents and /mnt/card/Documents as described, but switching to month view still crashes datebook. One interesting thing I noticed is that if I fire up a Terminal, su to root, and then run datebook, switching to month view works fine. As user zaurus, however, it crashes with the \"geclient_sendcommand(): server child accidentally finished!\" error. So it sure looks like a permissions issue, but where? I didn\'t see any obvious way to set up datebook to always run as root; is there a better solution?

[Stubear]

Looks like you have some permission problems in /mnt/cf/Documents if you have fixed /mnt/card and /home/zaurus.

If that doesn\'t work change ownership on all of /mnt/card and /mnt/cf and /home/zaurus, the fact that it runs as root is proof that it is a permission problem.

Good luck

Stu

[moregrey]

I\'ve done the Option-]Link File thing to unlink my CF card. That didn\'t make any difference. My CF card is formatted FAT; how can I change permissions on any directories on it? Do I need to change the way the card is mounted in /etc/fstab?

[tumnus]

If your CF card is FAT formatted, that isn\'t the problem (Do you have a SD card?). Did you run the following as root in the terminal (don\'t forget the -R)?

chown -R zaurus.qpe /home/zaurus/Documents

If you\'re still getting the problem then the executable bit must be missing from a directory somewhere under /home/zaurus/Documents. On Linux/Unix, the executable bit must be set on a directory for you to be able to enter it.

[moregrey]

Hmm, I\'m quite puzzled. Yes, I have an SD card.  /mnt/card/Documents is owned by zaurus.qpe, with permission drwxr-xr-x.  There are 3 directories under Documents, all owned by zaurus.qpe with permission drwxr-xr-x. There are no further subdirectories.
/home/zaurus/Documents is owned by zaurus.qpe, with permission drwxr-xr-x. There are 5 directories under Documents, all owned by zaurus.qpe with permission drwxr-xr-x. There are no further subdirectories.
Is it possible this is a permissions problem on the datebook executable itself?

[Stubear]

A sinlge file not owned by zaurus will cause it to crash from my experience

Try KoPi. it\'s way better anyway

Stu