On 7/20/07, Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer at nokia.com> wrote: > "ext Larry Battraw" <lbattraw at gmail.com> writes: > > > As an aside, has anyone had their Application manager break after > > trying to to install RTCom? I managed to get RTCom installed manually > > via apt-get/dpkg but now whenever I run the Application manager the > > window will appear almost instantly, titled "Application manager", and > > sit forever. > > That usually means that the backend process does not start up and the > frontend is waiting for it to respond. That's quite bad since you > basically can't debug the situation without help from the frontend. > It's a known bug that has been fixed in more recent versions of the > AM. Are these versions available in Sardine or somewhere else? > > The backend has quite low requirements for a successful startup. > Usually, sudo has some problems. Try this as "user": > > $ sudo /usr/libexec/apt-worker > apt-worker: wrong invocation > > If you see the error message "wrong invocation" from apt-worker, it > has been started successfully. Yep, that is exactly what it printed, so no problem with the /etc/sudoers file; I verified that by hand as well. -r--r----- 1 root root 2316 Jul 19 09:02 /etc/sudoers > > Doing a strace results in the attached log > > Thanks for the strace! It was only for maemo-invoker and not for the > hildon-application-manager, but I appreciate the effort! :-) Debugging > can be a bitch on the maemo platform... :) Sigh.... :-) I figured it was awfully short for what was getting kicked off. I did a copy of the root FS to the internal SD card to boot from and now it works for whatever reason, regardless of whether I boot from flash or SD. Very strange. I had already tried rebooting before so I'm unsure of what has changed. Thanks- Larry
