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ok guys I been using my n900 for the past three years, but only the other day my media player stopped working aswell the stock image app that allows to view your images.

However in mediabox I am able to view my pics and vids but not see any of my songs, the songs and all media files are on the devices have checked with file manage and mass storage

I was checked many threads relating to this one and none of the answers helped me.

I have used "tracker-processes -r" thinking it would help, but it did not.

in my x terminal is says:-

could not find database file: '/root/.local/share/tracker/data/common.db

could not find index file: '/root/.cache/tracker/file-index.db'

could not find index file: '/root/.cache/tracker/email-index.db'

why am I missing those files aswell?

You have to do the 'tracker-processes -r' as user 'user', root will not help you here.
Do you use an external card?
Did you check for a full rootfs?[code]df{/code]Is the device mounted?Did you try to check for file system errors? X for internal card is 0, X for external card is 1If fsck did change anything, reboot.

I don't use a memorycard, ill try what you suggested 1st

this is what it says when I type in mount

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)
nodev on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (0)
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/python2.5 on /usr/lib/python2.5 type bind (bind)
/opt/pymaemo/usr/share/pyshared on /usr/share/pyshared type bind (bind)
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/pyshared on /usr/lib/pyshared type bind (bind)
/opt/pymaemo/usr/share/python-support on /usr/share/python-support type bind (bind)
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/python-support on /usr/lib/python-support type bind (bind)
/dev/mmcblk0p1 on /home/user/MyDocs type vfat (rw,noauto,nodev,exec,nosuid,noatime,nodiratime,ut f8,uid=29999,shortname=mixed,dmask=000,fmask=0000, rodir)


also are you still using the N900, could you noit send me the missing .db files and maybe it should work then

Please tryReboot.
The reboot should trigger the tracker to refresh the database.

As should launching Media Player.

It will tell you there are no songs or videos, then start indexing them, showing an estimated time till finished.

when I launched the media player there are no songs or vids, it should start indexing them as soon I launch the media player but it does not, or is that something I should do manually if so how?

also when I typed in

fsck -af /dev/mmcblk0p1

at the end it said "no unique name was created "

this is what it says when I do the tracker-possesses -r

tracker-processes -r
Found 141 pids...
Setting database locations
Checking database directories exist
Checking database version
Checking database files exist
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'

The first start of Media Player after 'tracker-processes -r' shows 0 songs, 0 videos and, within seconds, triggers tracker to start indexing them. This is normally accompanied with a yellow banner saying something to the effect, "Indexing media files, 78:34 left" (or similar). You can also see the number of songs/videos gradually increasing, although you might not be able to play them yet. The whole re-indexing process takes anything between a few minutes and a few hours and is quite CPU intensive, so better do it while on a charger.

Would it be possible to copy and paste here the verbatim output of the last michaaa62's commands? Including df and both fsck.

that's the thing, I haven't seen that yellow banner yet, not sure why.


~ $ df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 233344 159564 69500 70% /
ubi0:rootfs 233344 159564 69500 70% /
tmpfs 1024 84 940 8% /tmp
tmpfs 256 72 184 28% /var/run
none 10240 72 10168 1% /dev
tmpfs 65536 4 65532 0% /dev/shm
/dev/mmcblk0p2 2064208 1957944 1408 100% /home
/home/opt 2064208 1957944 1408 100% /opt
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/python2.5
2064208 1957944 1408 100% /usr/lib/python2.5
/opt/pymaemo/usr/share/pyshared
2064208 1957944 1408 100% /usr/share/pyshared
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/pyshared
2064208 1957944 1408 100% /usr/lib/pyshared
/opt/pymaemo/usr/share/python-support
2064208 1957944 1408 100% /usr/share/python-support
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/python-support
2064208 1957944 1408 100% /usr/lib/python-support
/dev/mmcblk0p1 28312128 5316416 22995712 19% /home/user/MyDocs
~ $ tracker-processes -r
Found 143 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'
~ $ sudo gainroot
Root shell enabled


BusyBox v1.10.2 (Debian 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso31+0cssu0) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

/home/user # fsck -af /dev/mmcblk0p1
fsck 1.41.3.maemo0 (12-Oct-2008)
dosfsck 3.0.12, 29 Oct 2011, FAT32, LFN
Unable to create unique name
/home/user # fsck -af /dev/mmcblk0p1
fsck 1.41.3.maemo0 (12-Oct-2008)
dosfsck 3.0.12, 29 Oct 2011, FAT32, LFN
Unable to create unique name
/home/user #




also are you still using your n900?