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Poll: would you like to have BackTrack 5 on your n900?
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misiak is offline misiak
2011-05-18 , 22:23
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#261
Originally Posted by sequel7 View Post
For some reason John is included, but compiled for x86 [...]
What can I say... LOL

Originally Posted by sequel7 View Post
You should be able to download John and compile it for ARM yourself though, I would think. John has a really easy compiling process, but I've never tried it on ARM.
I know it's easy And if we are compiling it by ourselfes anyway, we can compile it with some nice patches: http://www.disenchant.ch/blog/teachi...ashes/106.html

Originally Posted by sequel7 View Post
What other apps are doing that for you? I imagine the problem is the same, but I haven't come across any others yet.
Other problems were probably caused by damaged microSD card, I'm now wiping my card and copying files to it again, then I will repeat the whole process with writing short tutorial in case anyone else is interested in running Backtrack in chroot and xephyr (like Easy Debian) and will be able to help (now I know only that after trying to start window manager. cpu is going crazy, ram is goin crazy and then phone suddenly reboots, I still don't know what is the cause).

Edit: reported "john" issue in the bugs section of official BT5 forum.
Last edited by misiak; 2011-05-18 at 22:41.
 
sequel7 is offline sequel7
2011-05-19 , 01:25
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#262
Another good thing to keep in mind is that since BT5 is based off of a reasonably modern Ubuntu, and usually comes with a lot of compiling dependencies installed or easily available, it should be easy to compile the tools that it's missing.

This is as compared to navigating the nightmare that is dependencies in Maemo. Plus, in the chroot there are no worries of breaking Maemo itself.
 
azkay is offline azkay
2011-05-19 , 01:31
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#263
I think ive gone and broken something, dont know what ive done but now terminal doesnt stay open. If I run terminal, itll sit there blank with the loading circle in the top bar, then after a few seconds it closes.

Any ideas? Google found nothing.

Restart fixed it

Raaage.
exec: 25: /usr/bin/lxsession: not found
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sequel7 is offline sequel7
2011-05-19 , 01:47
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#264
Originally Posted by misiak View Post
I think ive gone and broken something, dont know what ive done but now terminal doesnt stay open. If I run terminal, itll sit there blank with the loading circle in the top bar, then after a few seconds it closes.

Any ideas? Google found nothing.

Restart fixed it
It'll happen again. You're running out of RAM. You’ll need to add a swap partition. It makes stuff go a lot smoother. I used gparted on my laptop to shrink my memory card’s ext3 parition down a bit and added a 2GB swap partition (overkill, but why not). Then you can either add it in /etc/fstab on your N900, or use the quick and dirty way of `swapon /dev/mmcblk1p2` or whatever your partition is. Run `free` to find out if it worked.

That's what I did anyway.
Last edited by sequel7; 2011-05-19 at 02:24. Reason: Oops, quoted the wrong post somehow
 
azkay is offline azkay
2011-05-19 , 01:54
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#265
Some errors about not able to load failsafe sessions now.
Also, when I chroot into my debian setup, instead of the root@n900 or whatever, it has \h:\w$, commands work fine but I cant do anything like up, down, tab, etc.

Any ideas?
I think I messed up my image. Time to start again.
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sequel7 is offline sequel7
2011-05-19 , 02:25
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#266
Azkay, see my previous post. I originally quoted the wrong message somehow. Your issues sound like what happened to me when I started running out of RAM.
 
azkay is offline azkay
2011-05-19 , 03:26
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#267
Its not a ram issue, well it doesnt look like it.
Ive got the window up, ive got it "running" xfce- an error box saying:

Unable to load a failsafe session
Unable to determine failsafe session name. Possible causes xconfd isn't running (D-Bus setup problem);
environment variable $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is set incorrectly (must include "/etc") or xfce4-session is installed incorrectly.
 
sequel7 is offline sequel7
2011-05-19 , 03:27
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Originally Posted by azkay View Post
Its not a ram issue, well it doesnt look like it.
Ive got the window up, ive got it "running" xfce- an error box saying:

Unable to load a failsafe session
Unable to determine failsafe session name. Possible causes xconfd isn't running (D-Bus setup problem);
environment variable $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is set incorrectly (must include "/etc") or xfce4-session is installed incorrectly.
I can't speak for sure about your xfce errors, but the terminal crashing sounds like exactly the problem I was having due to no free memory.
 
azkay is offline azkay
2011-05-19 , 04:00
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#269
Terminal crashing I fixed with a reboot- it was happening with the normal maemo terminal, with nothing else running.

Ive got it sort of working. If I startx -- :2 from inside the chroot, it runs xfce ontop of maemo, flickering and half invisible. If I su root or su azkay inside the chroot and try, I get the failsafe session error connecting to xephyr and such. Im making n osense.

I think ive got it
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azkay is offline azkay
2011-05-19 , 04:10
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#270


Though, terminal nor firefox run in it.
"Failed to execute default Terminal Emulator. Input/output error.".

Actually, I think the shortcuts are just pointing to the wrong place. Too bad the screen size is too small so I cant move windows. Keyboard doesnt do anything either. Oh well, small steps.

Got the window proper size, now I just need to figure out how to change the resolution.
Might just use openbox instead of xfce4, less annoying, 50mb instead of 250mb.
Last edited by azkay; 2011-05-19 at 07:12.
 
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