Re: [Announce] modRana: a flexible GPS navigation system
 

liked ur app
just voted!

Re: [Announce] modRana: a flexible GPS navigation system
 

Just installed 0.12.6 and it's not working.
/opr/modrana was set 754, as were other directories.
chmod -R 755 /opt/modrana got it running, and no doubt broke some features.

Re: [Announce] modRana: a flexible GPS navigation system
 

Yes, the N900 build in GPS is supported through the standard method (liblocation), so it should work. You can check a few things:

• is the GPS turned on ? :)
• are you running modRana the right way ?
  • modRana needs to know that it is running on a N900 to turn on the liblocation support
  • this is taken care of by this script: /usr/bin/modrana (this is what you run, when you type "modrana" to the command line)
• was there installation flawless (no error messages during install)?

Well, I can say thats really pretty weird. :) Well, there are a few more things you can try:

• make sure you are root when installing/removing/purging modrana from the command line
• purge modrana
  Code:

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  apt-get remove --purge modrana

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  this should completely remove modrana from your system
• after purging try to reinstall with the app mamanger
• if this fails, purge again and try to install from the command line
  Code:

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  apt-get install modrana

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  this really should not install cloudgps :D
• if launching modrana using the desktop icon fails, try tu run it from the command line (as a user) by typing:
  Code:

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  modrana

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• if you get some (copypastable) errors, when running or installing, please PM them to me :)

Thanks !

Well, it can run even with 777, it doesn't break anything in the app. :)
But following the standard packaging practices, only what needs to be writable should be writable and so on. Therefore I set the permissions for the code to be read only and configs/tracklogs/cache/etc to be writable. So either I set wrong permissions somewhere or the installation failed during the postinst script, which is when the permissions are set.

Re: [Announce] modRana: a flexible GPS navigation system
 

i agree with akurtz... when running as user the first step is a cd to /opt/modrana. user needs the x bit for that cd to be successful. chmod'ing /opt/modrana is exactly the correct solution.

EDIT: My orignal post may be slightly ambiguous. /opt/modrana needs 775 permissions, but in case it's unclear, all of the subdirectories under that path also will need this same change.

Re: [Announce] modRana: a flexible GPS navigation system
 

Damn, that would be it ! I just totally forgot about the folder entry permissions. :D Thanks a lot for noticing!

I just pushed a new build (0.12-8), where this is added to the postinst script:

Re: [Announce] modRana: a flexible GPS navigation system
 

I could be wrong but i *think* you need a space between "-" and "exec" in that command. EDIT: I'm an idiot; I don't know why I thought that.

Also, the image that's being used for the desktop shortcut looks like it's much larger than the button size, and it's getting trimmed rather than scaled.

Re: [Announce] modRana: a flexible GPS navigation system
 

Probably a bit late now. But since you used the command line you would have a running commentary on what was being done. So what did apt-get really fetch and install?

Re: [Announce] modRana: a flexible GPS navigation system
 

Unfortunately the version of find on stock N900 is even more cut down than the usual busybox one and doesn't support the -exec option. Here's what works:

Re: [Announce] modRana: a flexible GPS navigation system
 

Nice looking app! Definitely with a future in store for it, but...
1. New yesterday's update crashes on the icon start (only x-term)
2. Routing poin2point and all others, in fact, don't work but freeze and make the app unresponsive (might be my distant away-from-routable area location is in blame, but why freeze?).
3. "Log track" button....and you get a blank screen forever. Have to terminate the app, because it's the only way out.

Re: [Announce] modRana: a flexible GPS navigation system
 

Tried to upload route to OSM; OSM said:
Found no good GPX points in the input data.
The log is fine, I can see it in modrana program. But something is wrong with its format.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/G...ad_properly.3F

First, it has a lot of 'ns0' inside it. Second, it doesn't have <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>. Third, it misses timestamps in points.

It was an old version of modrana (when the options weren't saved at all). Later I will try to install the newest version.

Request feature: when logging is on, show new log in green colour as it is recorded so that it is easier to see that it is recorded.

And allow zooming out and seeing the whole world on one screen. It seems it cannot have zoom lower than eight now?