Eclipse integration/Known issues beta2

Revision as of 09:15, 26 April 2010

More detailed known issues lists can be found from Garage projects for each product https://garage.maemo.org/.

Fremantle SDK is supported as separate installation e.g. not delivered as default environment with Desktop image, for example.
Fremantle devices are not officially supported as devices do not exist yet but first unofficial Fremantle packages are available from Fremantle extras-devel repository
Ubuntu Desktop based Maemo SDK Virtual Image (out-of-the-box ready development environment) will not be created for the Beta 2 release but users of old Beta 1 Desktop image are able to upgrade environment to Beta 2 level with these instructions: http://maemovmware.garage.maemo.org/2nd_edition/update_maemo_vm.html

Notice that updating process from Eclipse Update Site (update from beta 1 to beta 2) may not work for some plug-ins

Maemo SDK ARMEL rootstrap is ment to be used only for cross-compiling and it does not support running or debugging applications
Diablo 4.1.2 device requires kernel patch from here http://tablets-dev.nokia.com/maemo-dev-env-downloads.php to be flashed to the Tablet for USB Networking to work with Windows host PC
Diablo 4.1.2 device requires hildon-desktop patch to be installed to the Tablet from pc-connectivity Garage repository (see instructions from here http://pc-connectivity.garage.maemo.org/beta1/installation.html) for VNC client to work on host PC

While debugging Python application automatic termination of debugged program does not work when debugging session ends
Automatic installation of OProfiling support to the Maemo device may cause Eclipse to crash if Eclipse cannot find OProfile packages from configured repositories. Add repository

   deb http://repository.maemo.org/ diablo/tools free

to the Maemo device and run "sudo apt-get update" manually as workaround.

Some of the templates and examples provided by ESBox are not yet ported to Fremantle

Mac OS X support is still initial for Beta 2 release on functionality and quality point of view. Especially testing on Mac environment has been somewhat limited.
Configuring connectivity to work between Maemo device and host PC after installation is still partly manual work on host PC side for all supported operating systems
When creating a project and setting sbrsh as download method quite often errors like "sbrsh server: fuse: bad mount point " and "sbrsh server: Can't mount to point:" happens. As a workaround you need to restart sbrshd (on Maemo device side) and restart Esbox (on host PC side)

NetworkManager is being started after Scratchbox, so the resolv.conf file used by Scratchbox may be invalid which causes network problems

Flasher-3.5 beta tool may have problems in some Windows host PC configurations to flash eMMC images properly. Workaround is to retry with another USB port in host PC or use Linux/Mac for eMMC flashing

Some publically available test suites (for Eclipse components and NFS mounts, for example) are run on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X during integration testing but frameworks and test sets are not yet ready to be published

Test results (for unit tests and integration tests) for official releases are not yet ready to be published together with products

Feedback can be sent to eclipse-integration@maemo.org