Application manager keeps on Updating and wont stop
 

Just flash to Diablo, installed my usual apps (took an hour :( ), then installed Rotate, and now checked with app manager, after running for some 5 min, "operation failed", nothing in Show installed app, browse installable apps, or check update. Nothing. Upon reboot, and app manager, it goes on a forever Updating and wont stop.

Tried

1) dpkg --configure -a,
problem persisted

2) cp /var/lib/dpkg/status-old to /avr/lib/dpkg/status
problem persisted

3) app manager>app catalogs blank, nothing

4) Log:
hildon-application-manager 2.1.16
apt-worker:too weak to get lock from 1488
apt-worker closed connection.
apt-worker exited.
apt-worker is not running

Time to reflash, again?

:( :( :::::(


Edit: I think that was what happened. I rotated to the right (or Left?) while reading app manager. Real cool, you can see many more apps in a portrait mode. and I saw some progs I did not want and I uninstalled and updated, and rotated back to normal and now have the problem. I think that was what happened.

Edit: interesting, now log has changed to the following after another reboot,

apt-worker: Ignoring version from wrong domain: matchbox-window-manager 2:1.2-osso18
apt-worker: Ignorin

keeps on going for many many ignoring....

no idea what is that.








bun

N810/Diablo/screw up app manager by bun

Re: Application manager keeps on Updating and wont stop
 

Did you try apt-get clean?

Re: Application manager keeps on Updating and wont stop
 

No. I did not.

I reflashed it, and so far so good. Still puzzling what happened.

bun

Re: Application manager keeps on Updating and wont stop
 

I think you can change the Topic to "[SOLVED]" ?
(not sure how to do it)

Re: Application manager keeps on Updating and wont stop
 

This has happened to my unit too. As a complete non-programmer, could someone tell me how to try the "Did you try apt-get clean?" that Gemniii42 mentioned? I guess it's using Terminal but attempts to type in "apt-get clean" don't get me anywhere and "apt-get" seems to present data but I don't know where to go from there. Maybe a programming course?!!

Tim

Re: Application manager keeps on Updating and wont stop; > REFLASHED :(
 

No. It has NOT been solved. Sorry, I killed it - I reflashed. And I kind of loss interest to put it back now, just not happy. I spent so much energy to fine tune it after the 1st flash upgrade, you know, put in all kinds of niceties, shortcuts, copy my nitty gritty small apps, now it is blank again. Wondering whether history will repeat itself if I did not know what is the problem. Not a good day.

Maybe it is good for both of us to calm down a bit........


bun

Re: Application manager keeps on Updating and wont stop
 

Sorry to hear that bun! Good luck getting things back in order.

I guess this is why we need someone to draw up a guide showing us how to clone from sd to flash...

Re: Application manager keeps on Updating and wont stop
 

bun, I can't shed any light, but I've had this problem for a few days now. This morning, after reading up on "apt-get clean" and "apt-get autoclean" I opted for the latter, but no change.

I still get a boatload of "apt-worker: Ignoring version from wrong domain" log entries.

It hasn't seemed to affect the IT's performance as far as I can tell, except when looking for updates ... which seems to go on forever, especially this morning.

Other info: Upgraded to diablo and then cloned to new 16GB SD and installed bootmenu (both for the first time ever) last week. Maybe there's something in there that does this.

I'm going to boot from flash and see if it's the same there. (As soon as App Mgr finishes and lets me ...)

Re: Application manager keeps on Updating and wont stop
 

I apologize, I was responding to bunanson, whom I'm pretty sure understood.
Anyways, you have to have root access. Look at the wiki for gainroot.

So then I do:
sudo gainroot
apt-get clean
exit

exit gets me out of root.

Re: Application manager keeps on Updating and wont stop
 

True, it does not seem to affect IT's performance. But you cannot add apps, and cannot delete apps, dont know what versions of apps there and cannot update. I GAWKED at it for half and hr and I pressed the reflash button.........


bun