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N900 Media Player Problem.

Hi there,

Frist; I was research existing post on the same title. Now I came with different problem with same title.

Ok, Now, My Nokia N900 is not scanning any media files (music, Video and Images). Whenever I open the media Player to play the songs, it doesn't show any song and it always says (no songs) on both Musia and Videos

Please see below image and advice me how to troubleshoot this problem. I desparately need to use this standard media player. It's really awesome for me and it's really handy compare to other media players.

Thanks a million in advance for help.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a93...08-08-4186.jpg

Re: N900 Media Player Problem.

rebuild tracker databases
do that with tracker config from the repo if doesn't succed post the tracker-config log here

Re: N900 Media Player Problem.

Or run as a normal user in terminal

Code:

tracker-processes -r

Better do it while on the charger or your phone will eat your battery alive while rebuilding the databases. It may take a couple of hours if you have a big collection.

Re: N900 Media Player Problem.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alecsandru (Post 1365915)

rebuild tracker databases
do that with tracker config from the repo if doesn't succed post the tracker-config log here

Please find the attached tracker-config log. It's doesn't work for me. have you got any other advice.?

thanks in advance

Re: N900 Media Player Problem.

Quote:

Originally Posted by pichlo (Post 1365922)

Or run as a normal user in terminal

Code:

tracker-processes -r

Better do it while on the charger or your phone will eat your battery alive while rebuilding the databases. It may take a couple of hours if you have a big collection.

see below for "tracker-processes -r" response.

Code:

BusyBox v1.21.0 (Debian 1.21.0power2+thumb1) built-in shell (ash) 

Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands. 



~ $ tracker-processes -r 

Found 157 pids... 

Setting database locations 

Checking database directories exist 

Checking database version 

Checking database files exist 

Could not find database file:'/home/user/.local/share/tracker/data/common.db' 

One or more database files are missing, a reindex will be forced 

Removing all database files 

Removing database:'/home/user/.local/share/tracker/data/common.db' 

Removing database:'/var/tmp/tracker-user/cache.db' 

Removing database:'/home/user/.cache/tracker/file-meta.db' 

Removing database:'/home/user/.cache/tracker/file-contents.db' 

Removing database:'/home/user/.cache/tracker/email-meta.db' 

Removing database:'/home/user/.cache/tracker/email-contents.db' 

Setting index database locations 

Checking index directories exist 

Checking index files exist 

Could not find index file:'/home/user/.cache/tracker/file-index.db' 

Could not find index file:'/home/user/.cache/tracker/email-index.db' 

Removing all database index files 

Removing database index:'/home/user/.cache/tracker/file-index.db' 

Removing database index:'/home/user/.cache/tracker/email-index.db' 

~ $

Thanks in advance

Re: N900 Media Player Problem.

That log looks alright to me. Some databaases were missing which would explain empty Media Player but a few minutes after that command tracker should have started rebuilding them. What's the situation now?

Re: N900 Media Player Problem.

Quote:

Originally Posted by pichlo (Post 1366250)

Hi,

thanks for advice me,

there is no changes in behaving and 1 more thing I found out today that I couldn't playing music through media player. I try to access manually from the builb in file manager and It's not responding after i press that music folder. It's saying File manager not responding.

I couldn't open any folder from in-build 32GB memory and same for my 16Gb MMc as well. file manager ins't allow to access the root.

it's completely starnge and I ain't got any idea on phone behavier.

tahnks in advance for your help.

Re: N900 Media Player Problem.

don't know what builb is but that sounds like a file system corruption. which may also explain the lost tracker index files. When did your problems start? Did you by any chance pull the battery out or long-pressed the power button recently?

Do other applications run? Can you see all your contacts? Saved games status, if you have any? What is shown on the PC when you attach your phone in mass storage mode? What does the following produce?

Code:

mount

df -h

ls -l MyDocs

(Run as user, not root.)

Re: N900 Media Player Problem.

Quote:

Originally Posted by pichlo (Post 1366275)

Code:

mount

df -h

ls -l MyDocs

(Run as user, not root.)

1.When did your problems start?
About a month and half ago

2.Did you by any chance pull the battery out or long-pressed the power button recently?
Nope

3.Can you see all your contacts? Saved games status, if you have any?
Yes, I can see all my contacts and saved data.

See below

Quote:

BusyBox v1.21.0 (Debian 1.21.0power2+thumb1) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

~ $ mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
ubi0:rootfs on / type ubifs (rw,bulk_read,no_chk_data_crc)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,noatime,size=1024k)
tmpfs on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,noatime,size=256k,mode=755)
none on /dev type tmpfs (rw,noatime,size=10240k,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,size=65536k)
/dev/mmcblk0p2 on /home type ext3 (noatime,nodiratime,errors=continue,commit=1,data= writeback)
/home/opt on /opt type none (bind,rbind)
nodev on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (0)
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/python2.5 on /usr/lib/python2.5 type bind (bind,rbind)
/opt/pymaemo/usr/share/pyshared on /usr/share/pyshared type bind (bind,rbind)
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/pyshared on /usr/lib/pyshared type bind (bind,rbind)
/opt/pymaemo/usr/share/python-support on /usr/share/python-support type bind (bind,rbind)
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/python-support on /usr/lib/python-support type bind (bind,rbind)
/dev/mmcblk0p1 on /home/user/MyDocs type vfat (rw,noatime,nodiratime,noauto,nodev,exec,nosuid,ut f8,uid=29999,shortname=mixed,dmask=000,fmask=0000, rodir)
/dev/mmcblk1p1 on /media/mmc1 type vfat (rw,noatime,nodiratime,noauto,nodev,exec,nosuid,ut f8,uid=29999,shortname=mixed,dmask=000,fmask=0000, rodir)
~ $ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 227.9M 161.5M 62.2M 72% /
ubi0:rootfs 227.9M 161.5M 62.2M 72% /
tmpfs 1.0M 80.0K 944.0K 8% /tmp
tmpfs 256.0K 88.0K 168.0K 34% /var/run
none 10.0M 76.0K 9.9M 1% /dev
tmpfs 64.0M 4.0K 64.0M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/mmcblk0p2 2.0G 680.5M 1.2G 36% /home
/home/opt 2.0G 680.5M 1.2G 36% /opt
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/python2.5
2.0G 680.5M 1.2G 36% /usr/lib/python2.5
/opt/pymaemo/usr/share/pyshared
2.0G 680.5M 1.2G 36% /usr/share/pyshared
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/pyshared
2.0G 680.5M 1.2G 36% /usr/lib/pyshared
/opt/pymaemo/usr/share/python-support
2.0G 680.5M 1.2G 36% /usr/share/python-support
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/python-support
2.0G 680.5M 1.2G 36% /usr/lib/python-support
/dev/mmcblk0p1 27.0G 2.5G 24.5G 9% /home/user/MyDocs
/dev/mmcblk1p1 14.8G 4.7G 10.1G 32% /media/mmc1
~ $ ls -l MyDocs
drwxrwxrwx 2 user root 65536 Aug 10 18:48 DCIM
drwxrwxrwx 2 user root 65536 May 10 23:42 DropN900
-rwxrwxrwx 1 user root 34947 Jun 10 10:47 Lamborghini Murcielago (Dark Black Beast).jpg
drwxrwxrwx 2 user root 65536 Mar 30 2010 Mac OS
drwxrwxrwx 2 user root 65536 Aug 9 00:54 Open
drwxrwxrwx 3 user root 65536 May 29 22:37 Private
drwxrwxrwx 3 user root 65536 Mar 26 15:47 QtMobileHotspot-Driver
drwxrwxrwx 3 user root 65536 Mar 10 12:37 TML Mp3
drwxrwxrwx 2 user root 65536 Jun 6 11:33 amsn_received
-rwxrwxrwx 1 user root 27 Mar 30 2010 autorun.inf
-rwxrwxrwx 1 user root 0 Mar 24 00:53 blacklist.txt
drwxrwxrwx 4 user root 65536 Aug 10 10:32 cities
-rwxrwxrwx 1 user root 82864 Jul 10 11:36 error.jpg
-rwxrwxrwx 1 user root 55149 Aug 10 20:28 presence_notifier.txt
drwxrwxrwx 2 user root 65536 Jun 26 22:33 tmp
drwxrwxrwx 6 user root 65536 Apr 16 22:39 tracklogs
-rwxrwxrwx 1 user root 5043642 Jul 22 13:01 yappari_0.0.33_armel.deb
-rwxrwxrwx 1 user root 5103078 Jul 22 02:12 yappari_0.0

Yes I have no problem on accessing through my laptop (as PC Suite and Mass Storage), But before I can copy/move file(s) on PC Suite mode, But not now.

as far as my knowledge, it could be some kind of backround program/apps. a month ago I'd install several app from app manager.

there's only 2 problem right now

1. No music shown on media player
2. Couldn't access root files on File Manager.

If you want i can make a short video for you, so then you can see clearly what's going on.

thanks a million in advance.

Re: N900 Media Player Problem.

Try to install open media player and open with it, maybe it will be helpful...

Re: N900 Media Player Problem.

Quote:

Originally Posted by LamboRDD (Post 1366284)

~ $ df -h
...
/dev/mmcblk0p1 27.0G 2.5G 24.5G 9% /home/user/MyDocs
/dev/mmcblk1p1 14.8G 4.7G 10.1G 32% /media/mmc1

That indicates that you have only 2.5GB used on your MyDocs. Does that sound about right? All your music, pictures, maps etc?

Quote:

Yes I have no problem on accessing through my laptop (as PC Suite and Mass Storage), But before I can copy/move file(s) on PC Suite mode, But not now.

there's only 2 problem right now

1. No music shown on media player
2. Couldn't access root files on File Manager.

PC Suite mode uses the phone to access your files, so it will suffer the same problems the apps on phone (like Media Player or File Manager) suffer.

I did not notice any obvious problems in your mount output but I still suspect an obscure file system corruption. If you are sure you can see all your files in mass storage mode, then I recommend copying them off your phone, then disconnect the phone and reformat your MyDocs partition ("main memory") in File Manager (tap and hold the icon, menu will pop up) and then copy the files back again in mass storage mode.

Re: N900 Media Player Problem.

Please lose the use of bold formatting when seeking help.

First off, tracker and its own provided binaries has nothing to do with gpx files. Those gpx files are related to GPS co-ordinates/pinpointing, etc. Read this for more information as to what proper trackerd actually stores and doesn't store, what filenames it uses or it doesn't use.

There is a nifty trackerd configuration tool known as tracker-cfg. From there you can read all the relevant information and control trackerd in a way that you want it to operate.

In default/most cases, trackerd keeps its own log in: "/home/user/.local/share/tracker/trackerd.log". A simple:

Code:

lsof| grep trackerd

will give you what files does trackerd has access to and more. If the logs within "/home/user/.local/share/tracker/trackerd.log" is not enough then use tracker-cfg to increase the verbosity of the trackerd output when trackerd does its own rounds.

When issuing:

Code:

tracker-processes -r

you will need to give trackerd time to re-initialise again and generate the database in which stock media player for instance depends on. You can always check in a couple of ways: 1) through the log as mentioned above, 2) starting up media player (and it should show you a banner that it is retrieving information on files, etc 3) Using things such as cpumem-applet and monitoring until the first of the two bars goes down and stays down.

Depending on how big your list of media stuff and how you configured trackerd the results can vary. If, for whatever reason you do not get a full list of media (as you expected) or that it still shows no media files. You may have a more serious problem:

Code:

dmesg

may show you issues if and when they occur.

Judging from your various outputs, you would have realised to also have sysklogd installed and therefore /var/log/syslog would show you information pertaining of and on more of userland tools rather than at kernel level information. If you're not familiar with all of what I'm saying, I do not understand why you have CSSU-Testing/CSSU-Thumb installed knowing full well that they are not there for the average users.

If the issue started happening a month ago, you should have tried to look into it as soon as you can before you forget what you did last and/or installed something else which may ruin even more your setup.

If you have no recollection of what you did last to make your setup become like this and you don't have any decent explanation why you have CSSU-Testing/CSSU-Thumb installed/enabled when you aren't even familiar with basic linux commands then I only offer one suggestion. Backup and re-flash, it will be a lot simpler than trying to finding a needle in the haystack and to have people stabbing in the dark.

Re: N900 Media Player Problem.

Guys thank you very much indeed it worked the minute I typed the simple command and I couldn't be happier. Best regards to you from Egypt :)

Re: N900 Media Player Problem.

Did you check you have at least 10-15% free space in the /home partition?

I had the /home 98% full and trackerd did not start indexing any new content.

Re: N900 Media Player Problem.

Even with more than 10% free disk space, you could have ran out of inodes (too much files of small size, check with 'df -i').

Re: N900 Media Player Problem.

can you help me ?? I have the same issue , but when i type tracker-status it's always showing "tracker status is paused" but no media in both OMP and MediaPlayer .
thanks in advance , and sorry for my bad english :D .