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Andre Klapper is offline Andre Klapper
2010-01-04 , 12:02
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Also, where does that package exactly come from? It's not installed here...
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2010-02-18 , 10:34
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Apologies for thread necromancy, but since I've just pointed someone else at this thread, the missing contents of the files mentioned in my previous post:

Code:
/etc/resolv.conf : 

nameserver 127.0.0.1

/etc/network/interfaces : 

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
/etc/network/interfaces then also contains some USB networking config but I don't think that's relevant.

To answer Andre: No, I never needed to reflash in the end - my device continued to work as normal after fixing this.
 

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2010-02-22 , 03:22
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Originally Posted by shiny View Post
Hello all. First post here (and I'm afraid it's a problem, sorry.) I've had an N900 since early December - amazing little device and I'm a satisfied customer. Unfortunately today something quite odd has happened, and I was wondering if anyone could shed any light on it.

It seems that somehow the internal audio system has become "locked" - whenever I try to play any audio, either nothing happens or (as in the case of Media Player) I get a message to the effect of "Audio already in use by another application." Rebooting has no effect. I recently had a random reboot I had while using maemo-pc-connectivity, which may be the root of the problem.

Some other odd behaviour too that I think may be related:

- Anyone calling by phone can't be heard
- Calling out by phone forces other caller to speakerphone
- Nokia Video on bootup plays as expected
- /usr/bin/browser hangs at 100%
- Any kind of DNS resolution appears to be broken
- Text message noises etc. are replaced by a system "beep"

I have some extras-devel/extras-testing apps installed. While comfortable with the command-line, I don't know much about the internals of the N900 so it would be great if anyone could point me in the direction of what might be going on.
i had the same problem after i had been trying to get usb networking to work (using maemo-pc-connectivity following the instruction here http://pc-connectivity.garage.maemo.org/) between my N900 and an XP desktop. instead of trying to fix the problem, i just did a re-flash.

anyway, what i'd like to know is if you were also trying to get usb networking to work. did you succeed? i kind of got it working initially, that i could ping and ssh between the N900 and my PC. then i installed the dummy connection package. i probably did something i shouldn't have done and that's when my N900 crashed and lost the audio. so i re-flashed and had another go at usb networking and now i could only get the interfaces up on both sides but there's no communication between the two (i.e. can ping oneself but not the other).
 
gravisrs is offline gravisrs
2010-10-22 , 10:10
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Originally Posted by shiny View Post
Code:
/etc/resolv.conf : 

nameserver 127.0.0.1

/etc/network/interfaces : 

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
/etc/network/interfaces then also contains some USB networking config but I don't think that's relevant.
Worked like charm, almost..

(Obviously) I had to remove that messy pc-connectivity-manager at first.

I couldn't get it to work without shutting down n900 (rebooting somehow didn't worked with sound issue).

I had to remove that usb networking section at all (but maybe coz I've messed it a bit in meantime) to make dns resolving works.
 
devdsp is offline devdsp
2010-11-19 , 14:37
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#15
thx shiny resolv was proper, but interfaces contained 2 usb0 entries, so I removed one and rebooted.
Problem solved
 
bravomike67 is offline bravomike67
2011-05-21 , 21:07
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#16
had a similar problem where i couldnt use the camera as it kept saying CANNOT START CAMERA. AUDIO IN USE BY ANOTHER APPLICATION. after much, i was able to resolve it by starting the media player from the widget and closing the application window.
 
skykooler is offline skykooler
2011-06-16 , 17:13
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My N900 has the exact same problems - "audio in use by another application", phone always on speaker, web pages not loading - but I checked my /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/network/interfaces and they already have what you posted in them. Are there any other files that perform the same functions? I don't have another N900 to compare with...
 
skykooler is offline skykooler
2011-06-16 , 17:54
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I have confirmed that it is a DNS problem with the web - if I enter the IP address of a server instead of a web address, I can view the pages fine. I can also SSH into the N900. But I have the same thing in /etc/resolv.conf: "nameserver 127.0.0.1". Any ideas?
 
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2011-08-11 , 13:08
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#19
I've run into the same problem (no ringtone, phone on speaker, no DNS, mediaplayer and camera stall because they can't use audio). A few weeks ago I set up USB networking and added usb0 to /etc/network/interfaces, as described in http://wiki.maemo.org/N900_USB_networking , and after restarting my N900 (after a flight) it was in this weird state.

Now, I fixed this by returning /etc/network/interfaces to its original state. The weirdest part is, though, that just commenting out the lines pertaining to usb0 didn't do the trick, only deleting them altogether does.

Any comments / explanations? It looks to me that using USB networking requires keeping two versions of /etc/network/interfaces, one without the usb0 entries, to be used during startup, and the other to be used for USB tethering...
 
jaromrax is offline jaromrax
2011-11-26 , 15:14
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Hi,
I have just installed kernel power 49 and I have suddenly the (same) problem - camera claims that audio is used, media player doesnt see any song,video. However I can play video using kmplayer.
So: just removing all usb lines from /etc/networking/interfaces didnt help to me. (neither did cp libFLAC to /usr/lib)

Later on ... I have found that if I restarted in "general", not silent regime, the behavior changed - and after fcam-drivers from devel, I get the camera working. But I returns later, no idea why. Media player and images cannot see files and directories.

Edit later: Reflashed.
Last edited by jaromrax; 2011-11-30 at 10:37.
 
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