[HELP] Panorama
 

I installed OVI Nokia's Panorama application. Installation is OK, but when starting this app, I got an error message in a yellow banner at startup, then everytime I press the camera button :
"Memory not available in mass storage USB connection"

Of course, my USB cable is unplug, and I can access the /home/user/MyDocs directory with all its contents, including Panorama dir. I tried to reinstall the application (apt-get purge panorama ; rm -rf /home/user/.panorama ; rm -rf /home/user/MyDocs/Panorama) and the directories are created, so the application can access the /home/users/MyDocs directory. I also tried to plug an USB cable, and set to "Nokia PC Suite mode" in order to make the app understand that I don't use the USB mass storage mode, then unplug the cable, but still the same error message.

I can't make Panorama write pictures outside the /home/user/MyDocs tree, so I can't take any picture with. Of course, every other soft (media player for example) can access the tree.
I have BlessN900 and FCam installed, but I removed them, and I still have this issue.

Does anyone have any idea ?

Re: [HELP] Panorama
 

An idea but no real knowledge: do you have usb hostmode installed?

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Nothing like this.
For information, on my "old" N900 I had this issue with PR1.2 and PR1.3, and now I've a brand new n900 (motherboard changed by Nokia) and I first tried to install and run it, but still the same problem.

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Another prolly useless idea: is the MyDocs tree on a micro sd card? ....fishing.....

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No it isnt. No microSD in my device. I fsck it from n900 and from windows, no change at all. I umounted MyDocs and start the app. Panorama dir is created, but same problem

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Sorry about your issue - the pano app is rather nice and very clever aside ... Does that free "lite" pano proggie from Ovi work for you? Useless curiosity, that is all.... Best wishes

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I'll test the other panorama application on OVI.
I'm quiet surprised that I'm the only one with this issue, may be a bug related to another application, but I don't have anything exotic

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Are you using Kernel-power >v42?
Have you got fcam installed?

Run panorama from x-term and post any errors it may give you.

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Thanks for your answer. I had kernel power installed, but I removed it.
I have fcam installed, but still the same problem when it's removed.

Here is what I get when running panorama from xterm :

user@Nokia-N900:~$ panorama
Init: 0x426b3330
SavePreference changed to only cropped
>>>>> MED: 2048
SavePreference changed to only cropped
Committing user settings
rawPath = /home/user/MyDocs/Panorama/
resolutionIndex = 1
savePreference = cropped
autofocus = off
Done committing

I had the error message, and I pressed several times on camera button, but nothing appears on the stderr/stdout

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I think it might be worth contacting the author of the app and maybe filing a bug report.

do your other camera apps work ok?

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All I can think of now is that the permissions on the panorama directory are wrong. Why they would be for you and not me for eg. is well..... J_L is right in principle but it is so individualistic an error the devs (Nokia) will need some kind of pointer or two...

Perhaps install sysklogd and see if anything relevant gets entered into /var/log/syslog & /userlog. It can be more informative than the console.

Ultimately, one needs to reflash everything and make panorama the first prog installed and test. If it works then install the next, test on so on. If it fails as the first install then that is reportable (even if a unique failure) as extraneous progs and libraries are not at issue...

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What happens if you simply copy some other file into
/home/user/MyDocs/Panorama/
on the xterm?
2nd guess: what are the rights for panorama?
I have a link from /usr/bin/quickpanorama-pro to
/opt/maemo/usr/bin/quickpanorama-pro
which has root:root rights.

But I do not have a /home/user/.panorama .

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James_Littler : Yes, my camera app works (and BlessN900, and FCam...)
How to contact the authors, on OVI store, there is no link or information...

ME2g : My /home/user/MyDocs/Panorama is :
permissions : 777
ownership : user.root

I can write on it.

I don't have quickpanorama (pro or not) installed, so I don't have the symlink you talk about. But I've the following :
/usr/bin/panorama -> /opt/maemo/usr/bin/panorama
The target file is :
permissions : 755
ownership : root.root

I really think the problem is not permissions related, but "USB storage" detection related.

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Still no one with the same problem ?

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Weekly up !

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All I can suggest is downloading and installing strace (it's in the SDK repository and has no dependencies, so it's easiest just to download the .deb file and install with "dpkg -i") and running:
Then run through trying to create a panorama. Then exit and upload all the trace_panorama.* files here. They'll show all the system calls made by panorama as it's running - hopefully that'll provide some indication of where it's failing.

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1st of all, thank you for the advice, I supposed that strace wasn't available on maemo, and I was wrong.

Here are the traces :

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Unfortunately that didn't prove very helpful :( I can't see anything in there that suggests why it's failing.

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did u try an install of sysklogd?

http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/.../sysloghttp://

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I installed sysklogd, but I didn't see anything probant in syslog file.
I attach it, if you can take a look on it.

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There is no significant difference between your and my syslog in firing up Panorama; except Pano works for me but does not for you.... Syslog should capture any system usb / storage weirdness but nothing. Strace should capture any programme usb / storage weirdness but nothing. Reflash does not help... Sigh! I fear that this is so idiosyncratic an issue that it will remain unresolved...

You could try a complete reflash (both OS and storage) and install Panorama first. If that failed then there simply has to be a hardware issue. Is that knowledge worth the effort?
Good wishes in the context of your frustration...

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Hopefully I don't think I really need Panorama, but I'd like to test it... Si, i'll do without for the moment, I'll give it a test on my father's n900 device, and if I discover this program is the key of my future life, I'll reflash my whole n900 :)

Thank you again for your help