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[HELP] Messages App won't start

After installing a recently posted App on openrepos.net https://openrepos.net/content/yoyocx/stickermotion
(v0.0.1) my native Messages App (SMS) no longer starts.

It seems I'm not the only one seeing this issue based on the comments section on the above page.
Attempts to communicate with author regarding a solution were fruitless thus far.

Symptoms:
- When I press the Messages App icon, text underneath changes color for a for a few seconds and then nothing...
- Settings -> Applications -> Messages has no response as well
- Lockscreen notifications for incoming messages are visible, but swiping aside does not reveal the app.

Debug attempts:
- Connected via WLAN to PC. Launched "top" to see if pressing on Messages icon will reveal the relevant process. Not able to determine anything from that.
- Searched TMO and google. Could not find anything useful, but it's very possible I missed something already posted.

Looking for some debug guidance:
- Is there a way to launch Messages App via terminal and determine what may be going wrong.

Naturally I can always resort to flashing but would rather avoid that if possible.

Thanks,

--lfc22

Re: [HELP] Messages App won't start

Had the same problem with this app on my N9 yesterday.

Same behaviour after installation as you told above, additionally my N9 started rebooting after pressing messaging settings......annoying.
Uninstall the app didnt help.

decided to reflash N9 to solve the problem, now everything's fine again.

Since I have my phone tried many apps and tweaks and NEVER had such troubles.

Re: [HELP] Messages App won't start

Code:

devel-su

apt-get update

apt-get install --reinstall libemoticontransform0

and reboot (probably it isn't important)

Re: [HELP] Messages App won't start

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ancelad (Post 1412269)

Code:

devel-su

apt-get update

apt-get install --reinstall libemoticontransform0

and reboot (probably it isn't important)

Thanks a lot. You saved me;)

Re: [HELP] Messages App won't start

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ancelad (Post 1412269)

Code:

devel-su

apt-get update

apt-get install --reinstall libemoticontransform0

and reboot (probably it isn't important)

Thanks Ancelad, that did it!

I did get some Error/Warning messages in the process.
Can you comment on their significance or how to fix?

Code:

RM696-21-3_PR_006:~# apt-get update

. . .

. . .

Hit http://harmattan.openrepos.net personal/main Packages

Err http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com harmattan/sdk/free Packages

  504  Gateway Time-out

Err http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com harmattan/sdk/non-free Packages

  504  Gateway Time-out

Fetched 400kB in 4min 57s (1,345B/s)

W: Failed to fetch http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/dists/harmattan/sdk/free/binary-armel/Packages.gz  504  Gateway Time-out



W: Failed to fetch http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/dists/harmattan/sdk/non-free/binary-armel/Packages.gz  504  Gateway Time-out



E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

RM696-21-3_PR_006:~# apt-get install --reinstall libemoticontransform0

Reading package lists

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

The following packages will be upgraded:

  libemoticontransform0

1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.

Need to get 90.0kB of archives.

After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.

Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y

Get:1 https://downloads.maemo.nokia.com ./ libemoticontransform0 0.0.62.45+0m8 [90.0kB]

Fetched 90.0kB in 2s (41.5kB/s)

(Reading database ... 62306 files and directories currently installed.)

Preparing to replace libemoticontransform0 0.0.62.45+0m8 (using .../libemoticontransform0_0.0.62.45+0m8_armel.deb) ...

Unpacking replacement libemoticontransform0 ...

aegis-installing libemoticontransform0 (from 'com.nokia.maemo')

Processing triggers for applauncherd-launcher ...

Setting up libemoticontransform0 (0.0.62.45+0m8) ...

Updating desktop entries... Done

W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package liblablgl-ocaml-dev

W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package librsvg2-bin

W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package libboost-date-time-dev

W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package libboost-dev

W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package libboost-filesystem-dev

W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package libboost-math-dev

W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package libboost-program-options-dev

W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package libboost-regex-dev

W: Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package libboost-serialization-dev

W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

RM696-21-3_PR_006:~#

Re: [HELP] Messages App won't start

Just remove harmattan-dev from your source-list. This repo isn't active anymore.

Re: [HELP] Messages App won't start

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ancelad (Post 1412293)

Just remove harmattan-dev from your source-list. This repo isn't active anymore.

Which list should I edit?
The sources list under /etc/apt/sources.list is empty...

I only see harmattan-dev within "sources.list.d/sdk.list" file.
Should I edit that?

Code:

RM696-21-3_PR_006:/etc/apt# ls -al sources.list

-rw-r--r--    1 root     root             0 Jan  8 14:15 sources.list

RM696-21-3_PR_006:/etc/apt# cd sources.list.d/

RM696-21-3_PR_006:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# grep harmattan-dev sdk.list

deb http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/ harmattan/sdk free non-free

Re: [HELP] Messages App won't start

Quote:

Originally Posted by lfc22 (Post 1412322)

Which list should I edit?
The sources list under /etc/apt/sources.list is empty...

I only see harmattan-dev within "sources.list.d/sdk.list" file.
Should I edit that?

Code:

RM696-21-3_PR_006:/etc/apt# ls -al sources.list

-rw-r--r--    1 root     root             0 Jan  8 14:15 sources.list

RM696-21-3_PR_006:/etc/apt# cd sources.list.d/

RM696-21-3_PR_006:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# grep harmattan-dev sdk.list

deb http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/ harmattan/sdk free non-free

Remove it ;)