Hi All;

I'm testing the development waters. I found this nice VM that I have installed on my laptop using the free VMware player:

https://garage.maemo.org/frs/?group_id=277

Everything looks great, and although it has the chinook stuff (not diablo), I think this will be a good learning experience for me.

I'm trying to work through the 'hello world' stuff, but ...problem is I don't know the root password to this VM!

I've tried all the obvious ones like "maemo" and "nokia" ,etc. The garage.maemo forums have not been able to help.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Steve

rootme...dunno...mine dont have a password...

Hi;

It rejected rootme also.

Are you running that same VM? Because I would think the root password for that vm is very specific to that vm.

Thanks,

Steve

That depends on where you are trying to become root. If it is in the regular XFCE desktop (not the development environment) using sudo should require a password of "maemo"

If you are in scratchbox (the development environment) instead of sudo you use "fakeroot" and then the command. No password is required.

Thanks, fiferboy.

My ignorance at this point is embarrassing, but I must plow on.

You said:
As I type this, I'm using Firefox withing the Xubuntu VM. I opened a terminal window. I want to "be" root there. ( I happen to be in the /root directory at this point; I know that is irrelevant)

Most of my experience is with SuSE and Red Hat. On those distros, I am used to typing "su" and then supplying the root password. At that point my prompt changes to the root prompt and I "am" root. Does this not work in the 'Debian' world?

Here is what I see on the terminal:
maemo@maemo:/root$ su
Password:
su: Authentication failure
Sorry.
maemo@maemo:/root$

I know from reading the sudu man pages that it's primary purpose is to allow the execution of a command as supervisor or another user. This is not what I am trying to do - I want to be in a term session as root - or, in general, to know what the root password is for this nice little VM.

Hope this makes sense!

Thanks,

Steve

Arreeurggrp? ...

I think I just figured it out!

I tried this:

maemo@maemo:/root$ sudo su
root@maemo:~#



Steve

Wow! Thanks steve! this looks like exactly what I was looking for!

Only question is... I'm downloading the torrent version... it's got two files in it, and an MD5 checksum. Do you have any clue what I need to do with the two separate files?

EDIT: my apologies for hijacking your thread!

No worries about thread hijacking. I welcome it - it's lonely being a noob.

I too was puzzled by the multiple files. It *seems* as if the only one needed is the big one - maemo-sdk-0.6.7z.001 . I already deleted the 002 file - it did not seem to contain anything useful.

I used 7zip and it 'sploded into two files, a .vmdk and a .vmx; ~ 7.4 Gig - pretty good compression!

06/29/2008 12:27 AM 1,073,741,824 maemo-sdk-0.6.7z.001
06/30/2008 10:50 AM 7,473,856,512 maemo-sdk-0.6.vmdk
06/30/2008 10:49 AM <DIR> maemo-sdk-0.6.vmdk.lck
06/29/2008 01:49 PM 536,870,912 maemo-sdk-0.6.vmem
06/30/2008 10:49 AM <DIR> maemo-sdk-0.6.vmem.lck
06/29/2008 01:49 PM 0 maemo-sdk-0.6.vmsd
06/30/2008 10:49 AM 18,050,274 maemo-sdk-0.6.vmss
06/30/2008 10:49 AM 1,256 maemo-sdk-0.6.vmx
06/30/2008 10:49 AM <DIR> maemo-sdk-0.6.vmx.lck
06/29/2008 01:49 PM 268 maemo-sdk-0.6.vmxf
06/29/2008 12:20 AM 110 md5sums
06/29/2008 01:54 PM 8,684 nvram
06/29/2008 01:54 PM 28,121 vmware-0.log
06/30/2008 10:49 AM 33,214 vmware.log

I installed the free VMWare player, and then just clicked on the .vmx - a few seconds later I was up and running. Pretty Cool!

Perhaps later you can help me get the Diablo SDK stuff installed. I'm first going to run through the 'hello world' on the chinook stuff that is pre-installed.

Steve

Hmm... perhaps when my torrent finishes we can work through it together :P

I've actually never set up scratchbox before. All my previous devel has been through python which doesn't require compilation

You do need the "#2" file - they split the compressed file into two separate files for those not using torrents. When you pass the name of the first one to 7zip, it will automatically grab the second one in the same directory. Once you've extracted it into the vmdk and vmx files, you can delete the two files you downloaded.

There is no "root" account in the ubuntu environment, you use sudo (password: maemo) if you need to install software there. If you want to install software inside of scratchbox (the device emulator), you use "fakeroot" instead of "sudo" (so, fakeroot apt-get install xournal or whatever)