I posted this in another thread in hopes of attracting some attention, but it seems to have gotten buried. So, I'm here to start a new one to ask:

Anyone have issues with Erminig failing to start?

I've searched the forums and there have been some reports, but a suggested re-install (inc a fresh download of v2.9-1) and a hopeful reboot have not got it going again. I think I noticed it a day or so ago, then got busy, and tonite I made my first effort to get it going again.

I can choose it from either my Personal Menu or the Maemo start menu (is that what we are supposed to call it? It's under Extras)...but there is no indication that it has started or ever will. Actually, when loading from Personal Menu, I get a "Erminig is starting" message, but then, nothing...

I have not contacted the author. Don't want to bother him with what, I am sure, prove to be something I did.

Thanks in advance.

I had the same issue. Erming requires the python runtime engine, which isn't included in the maemo extras repository anymore. I uninstalled Erming and its dependencies. Then, I went to the maemo python website and downloaded the software.
http://pymaemo.garage.maemo.org/

I then reinstalled Erming and its dependencies and everything worked fine.

I have this problem as well. However, it has worked for me in the past and I've never done the "gainroot" stuff the pymaemo web site suggests. My theory is that some other application I had installed at the time had put enough python on the tablet for Erminig to work. I change what's installed quite a bit, though, and I can't recreate the state it was in when Erminig worked! It seems like python is a very popular development environment for tablet applications. Why on earth is there not a way to install it for regular humans? Why on earth doesn't Erminig just install what it needs? I've seen many applications for PCs that install their own private copy of java, or their own copy of perl, in order to run regardless of what's already on the system. Not real efficient, maybe, but it does work! Frustrating.

So you are saying it used to work and then stopped for no reason?

One thing you can easily do is to open up an X Terminal and start erminig from there. If it dies on startup, it likely will spit out some errors as to why. If you get something, cut and paste it here (removing the personal bits as it seems to spit out some personal profile info by default) and people might be able to better point you in the right direction.

erminig is python-based so anything you might have updated/changed/removed wrt that might have disrupted something it needed. No amount of reinstalling will help that.

The Application Manager visible python packages that I have on my tablet are: pysqlite, python2.5-feedparser and python2.5-pyinotify
while I don't know that any of those are needed for erminig, it runs fine on my tablet.

I've not used erminig in quite a while, but I remember that if I tried to start it without an internet connection it seemed to fail. A ps | aux showed it running, but the GUI never launched. I always needed to manually connect before launching it.

FWIW it works for me for the most part, but kind of a dead end unless someone else picks up development on it.

Exactly, so thanks to those who suggested missing python bits, but it really did work until last week. I did as you suggested and ran it from Xterm and heres what I got:
~ $ erminig
debug:
Loading parameters from config file
debug:
GoogleLogin : phillip.dubov
debug:
Loading parameters from config file
debug:
Loading profiles from config file
debug:
Profiles list : Phillip;UT;
debug:
Loading profile Phillip
cfg entry :
0
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/erminig", line 916, in <module>
profile = erminigApp()
File "/usr/bin/erminig", line 116, in __init__
self.on_file_open()
File "/usr/bin/erminig", line 406, in on_file_open
newProfile = Profile(entry[0], entry[1], entry[2], entry[3]
TypeError: 'int' object is unsubscriptable

Now I've since noticed another thread in which someone has pointed out that the author of Erminig is no longer interested in supporting it, but this wouldn't explain why mine no longer works. Again thanks in advance!

Hi
Delete this file :
/home/user/.erminig.cfg

David.

Thanks David,

That did the trick!

I should have written you from the start, but didn't want to trouble you.

I know you've got bigger and better things to do, but I encourage you to recall how this little program made some people's lives a little easier, back in the day! Bravo, encore, et bonne chance!

for those who are not comfortable with xterm is there any workaround please ?