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It isn't running so I tried the restart command.

What did I do wrong?

~ $ /etc/init.d/metalayer-crawler0 (re)start
-sh: syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")
~ $

I was not root if that matters.

Thanks

You do have to be root and the command is either "/etc/init.d/metalayer-crawler0 start" or "/etc/init.d/metalayer-crawler0 restart" depending upon whether you are starting it for the first time or attempting to kill a currently running one and restarting it. "restart" is generally safe thing to do even if you do not have one running currently.

I have been noticing media player is not picking the new music any more for me. My first though was metacrawler is not running. So I restarted it and it still did not show up in "ps -ef". I tried starting it by running it directly from /usr/bin with "-F" to run it in foreground and it fails with segmentation fault! So now any of the new music since it ran successfully last is not being indexed. Any one else seeing this?

Is this a closed component still?

Thanks khalid for the clarification and correction to the syntax. From your further attempt it seems that it's not worth me trying right now.

Funny thing is, I only recently filled my 8gb card and it indexed it ok. I wonder what changed in MP - I don't remember an update to this ap. Could it be something else?

Is it worth contacting Nokia? I presume they 'broke' it?

There is a fix
https://bugzilla.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3970

This was my first visit to bugzilla so I guessed my way through.

There were two files, a deb and an lzo. I downloaded them to my PC in the same folder and invoked the deb from my tablet over wifi in file manager. Message came up:
Unable to update metalayer-crawler0. Incompatible application package.

Any thoughts?

EDIT: Just tried placing both files on the memory card and trying again. Same error.

You could just try extracting the file in question from the .deb and overwriting the existing one rather than fiddling around with lock files and the like.

In the details tab of the deb file (before extracting) it says it has this issue so it looks like any attempt might not work.

I'm also not farmiliar with the extraction command or where I need to be to do this.

I'm happy to go forward with some coaching though.

Thanks.

PS: Now if I read my post I'd be tempted to say "You need to be in the kitchen for the extraction command to work "

The problem with this *deb is that, although it works perfectly as a Debian package, it doesn't fit the restrictions of your tablet's Application Manager. (Which is a good thing, because it actually breaks something that under normal circumstances users shouldn't touch.)

The responsible developer explained here and here how to work around those Maemo-specific restrictions to get the package running. As I understand, you'll also have to revert some of the required changes when the next SSU comes out, otherwise you won't be able to install that.

Given that all of this has the potential to break things on your tablet, that the next SSU will fix this error anyway and that you can still open the files by selecting them from the file manager, you might be better off just waiting...

Well, I'd do the following, on your desktop, in a temporary directory:

ar -x whateveritscalled.deb
tar -zxvf data.tar.gz

Then wander through the sub-directories to (probably ./usr/bin or perhaps ./usb/sbin) and copy the file in question to your n8x0. You might want to rename the existing file on your device rather than overwriting it, on the off chance that dpkg is bright enough to check that the file size is what it expected when it comes to upgrade it one day.