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Have you changed the hostname of your n800 recently via the "hostname" command and/or /etc/hostname ?

If so, make sure you add the new name to the localhost entry in /etc/hosts
 

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Originally Posted by Moonshine View Post
Have you changed the hostname of your n800 recently via the "hostname" command and/or /etc/hostname ?

If so, make sure you add the new name to the localhost entry in /etc/hosts
I didn't. But I noticed that it had changed. So I changed it back.
Verified the host name is in /etc/hosts.

Application Manager still hangs.
 
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Could it be Nokia messing with their repositories in prep for N810? Whatever is causing the problem... App Manager really needs to fail more gracefully. Hope that is covered in OS2008.
 
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Totally off-topic for this thread, I'm subscribed for instant email notification, but it ain't happening Back on topic, everything else on my N800 seems to be working fine. As an earlier poster mentioned, apt-get from the command-line is working w/o errors.
 
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Originally Posted by rlauzon View Post
I didn't. But I noticed that it had changed. So I changed it back.
Verified the host name is in /etc/hosts.

Application Manager still hangs.
Shoot. Well I've seen App Manager do *exactly* what you describe when the current hostname doesn't have a localhost alias in /etc/hosts. Happend to me on two n800's where I changed the hostnames, and I could reproduce it by just removing the entry. Oh well...
 
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Originally Posted by Moonshine View Post
Have you changed the hostname of your n800 recently via the "hostname" command and/or /etc/hostname ?

If so, make sure you add the new name to the localhost entry in /etc/hosts
Ha. That was my problem. I was messing with /etc/hosts and I changed the hostname there. As soon as I added the current name back to hosts and then changed /etc/hostname to my preferred name, everything worked ducky!

Thanks Moonshine! I have no idea how you figured that out.

I completely agree that App Mgr really needs to fail more gracefully.
 
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I had changed my hostname. Changing it back and rebooting fixed the problem.
 
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Originally Posted by Moonshine View Post
Shoot. Well I've seen App Manager do *exactly* what you describe when the current hostname doesn't have a localhost alias in /etc/hosts. Happend to me on two n800's where I changed the hostnames, and I could reproduce it by just removing the entry. Oh well...
I re-checked everything and found that editing /etc/hostname didn't work! The old (wrong) hostname was still being reported. So I used the hostname program to change the host name and re-verified that /etc/hosts had the correct hostname.

Then I re-ran Application Manager and it's working now.

Thank you!
 
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I've just had the blank Application Manager screen issue described by other posters in this thread.

I have read the instructions on this thread, but am having some problems as I'm a bit of a N800 newbie. Hopefully some kind person will be able to help?

The "hostname" command returns Nokia-N800-26 & the top line of /etc/hosts is 127.0.0.1 Nokia-N800-26 localhost so as far as I can see, the hostname is the same in both places. Is this correct?

I then decided to try and change the hostname via sudo gainroot, but I'm then prompted to enter a password which I don't know so I'm unable to change the hostname :-(

I thought the point of becomeroot is you could then do a sudo gainroot and become root, without being prompted to enter a password, or am I terminally confused?!

HELP!
 
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Try rootme as the password.
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