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Harlequin

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Trouble-shooting advice
« on: July 09, 2004, 11:42:26 am »
Hello,

I was just wondering whether anyone could offer basic trouble-shooting advice for when applications 'just wont work' on OZ.  I've gone through all the ROMs, and I've settled on OZ 3.3.5 for a balance of stability and functionality I want.  I started with OZ from word go and was a bit disheartened at the amount of apps that I had problems installing / running.

My issues at the moment revolve around Opie Media player (from the oz testing feed for collie) and Jeode 1.10.7 from ZUG downloads (+ jeode demos 1.10.6).

Opie media player finds my mp3s on the sd card without difficulty.  I select an mp3 to play and the player gui launches for a split second then disappears, returning me to the mp3 selection screen.

Jeode and jeode demos install successfully.  I get the extra tab, but neither of the demos run when selected.  No SIGSERV, no flash up on the screen, nothing.

I think I'm the closest thing to 'just an end user that the *nix' world has.  I know a symlink from a dir and I'm not afraid of getting my hands dirty, though.  Is there any kind of logging I could switch on, or can I up the error level so I can see what the issue is?  

I would have thought that given that the hardware is identical on all 5500s there shouldn't be any complilation issues for the apps.  Am I a bit naive?


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Trouble-shooting advice
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2004, 12:22:10 pm »
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Opie media player finds my mp3s on the sd card without difficulty. I select an mp3 to play and the player gui launches for a split second then disappears, returning me to the mp3 selection screen.

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Jeode and jeode demos install successfully. I get the extra tab, but neither of the demos run when selected. No SIGSERV, no flash up on the screen, nothing.

Try running it from the command line, then post the error which you get.

To do this you'll need to know what to run, there are a load of files named *.desktop which live in subdirectories of /opt/QtPalmtop/apps/ (the subdirectory names being related to the tab name - you'll see). The .desktop filename should also be vaguely related to the name which appears under the icon, but may not.

Try doing 'more somefile.desktop' and see what the name is (Name=xxxx), also look for the binary name which is what you'll have to run in a minute (Exec=xxxx).

Once you've worked out what the binaries are you can move on to setp two ;-)

do 'cd /opt/QtPalmtop/bin'
as this is probably not in the path, then assuming the Exec line said 'Exec=somebinary', run the binary like so: './somebinary'

The graphical bit will come up, break it ;-) and then look at the output.


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