Debian with Xqt

[wmadan]

Well, first off, I followed the wiki instructions to the letter.

Then, when I launch the xterm, the first line that comes up is: "-bash: /home/root/.bash_profile: Too many levels of symbolic links" and then I am dropped to: "root@zaurus:/#"

As for being able to unmount the SD card, I close out the X/qt Server, call up the Konsole in Qtopia and type "umount /mnt/card" This is when I get the "Device or resource busy" error message.

Bill

[jerrybme]

Well, first off, I followed the wiki instructions to the letter.

Then, when I launch the xterm, the first line that comes up is: "-bash: /home/root/.bash_profile: Too many levels of symbolic links" and then I am dropped to: "root@zaurus:/#"

As for being able to unmount the SD card, I close out the X/qt Server, call up the Konsole in Qtopia and type "umount /mnt/card" This is when I get the "Device or resource busy" error message.

Bill

I haven't have your problem with "too many levels of symbolic links" problem, but I run Cacko as root, so that may make a difference.

So for the SD problem, did you create a swap on your SD? If so I've found that for some reason that the startd script doesn't stop the swap properly. I've had better luck starting the swap from the terminal after Debian has started and then stop the swap abefore exiting. Try running

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startx-wrapper from the konsole to see what is happening and if swap is being stopped properly.

Since I've got a 750 and don't have builtin wireless it also lets me use a swap on either the SD or my CF micro drive if I'm not going to be using wireless. To accces the CF from with Debian, from the Cacko Konsole

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mkdir /mnt/card/mnt/cf
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/card/mnt/cf
Cheers,
Jerry

[jerrybme]

wmadan:
One more thing, it occurred to me that it may also be that you've mounted /proc to /mnt/card/debroot/proc.
Do a

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mountTo see what's mounted.

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umount /mnt.rom/card/debroot/procshould take care of that.

Cheers,
Jerry

[wmadan]

Jerry,

Thanks for the tip. I found that /proc was mounted on /usr/mnt.rom/card/debroot/proc so I umounted that and then umounted the card itself and that worked.

A follow-up question for you: You say you run Cacko as root. I am running Cacko 1.22 as well, but how do I know if I'm running as root?

And, yet another question: I'm trying to get apt to work. I get "hit" messages when I apt-get update, but then it times out looking for the headers. Can you help here as well?

Thanks a lot!

Bill

[jerrybme]

wmadan:
Just edit /home/QtPalmtop/qpe.sh and change

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export QPEUSER=root
export QPEGROUP=rootand restart Qtopia

Cheers,
Jerry

[xjqian]

If you are in /mnt/cf, or already chrooted and are in /, then ln -s root home/root, as in the wiki, wil work just fine

byz and smeulas

What I'd done is just what you said. The symbolic link was in the home directory of the debroot, i.e. I did that in the chrooted enviroment.

However, if I remove the link, no error message. Everything works equally fine. I don't quite understand the purpose of having this link. please feel free to educate me.

[hatchetman]

It's my understanding that when you chroot the variables such as your PATH and such become the same thing in the chroot environment. Please try this to see if it's true, I remember seeing my PATH in the chroot environment. Anyways assuming that's true, because $HOME on the Sharp ROM is /home/root when any program refers to $HOME it won't find anything since the chroot environment's home directory is set to /root.

Simple solution, link the location of the Sharp ROM's home directory with chroot environment's home directory.

[xjqian]

Simple solution, link the location of the Sharp ROM's home directory with chroot environment's home directory.
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Thanks for the explanation, I think it's true. without the link apt-get upgrade complains about can't find certain files, or path error. Anyway, it's not a big deal practically. Without having the link, now I got the /home/root directory, somehow created by the mozilla firefox, thunderbird or maybe other application. And you can always su to get things to work.  

One real big deal is the sound. While learning debian, I wonder how do you guys enable sound in the chrooted enviroment. I try to do this trick

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ln -s /dev/dsp  /mnt/cf2/.debroot/dev/dsphowever, it doesn't seem to work. I tried to use the debian distro Kphone to dial. But got the following message

close any program which might be using soundcard and then retry dial

The call goes through with the original debian /dev/dsp, but with no sound at all. I also used xmms to play mp3, no sound either. In general, how to make debian recongnized the device outside of the chroot?

[hatchetman]

You can't link the device because it's outside of the chroot environment, and there's no way access what's outside when inside. Even so, you should't have to because all the devices would have been created when you extracted the tarball. My sound worked right out of the box, you might want to check your xmms settings instead for a problem.

[unplug]

I stored some mp3 musics and videos on my CF card. I want to test them under xmms in debian. How do I access those files after I chroor? I mean what is the corresponing path of /mnt/cf or /mnt/card under debian?

[xjqian]

Yeah, the sound is working ok by default. I selected input plugin: mpeg 1/2/3 player, output plugin: oss driver to get it bearly work. it's struggling to play my mp3 though, which're played nicely under the stock player. Do I need a better input or output plugin, like MAD?

[smuelas]

apt-get install xmms-mad

[xjqian]

thanks, smuelas. that's it. I think I should post debian questions in linux section next time to keep this post more on topic. Just hope you guys will hop over there offen:)

[jerrybme]

I stored some mp3 musics and videos on my CF card. I want to test them under xmms in debian. How do I access those files after I chroor? I mean what is the corresponing path of /mnt/cf or /mnt/card under debian?
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You need to mount your CF from out side the chroot environment

First make a directory

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mkdir /mnt/card/debroot/mnt/cfThen mount

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mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/card/debroot/mnt/cfThen you'll be able to access file on your CF card.

[jerrybme]

Has any one figured out how to map right or middle mouse buttons? I know Fn is right mouse but I hoping to move it to the home key.