Can't (re-)install the Music app

gandalf

Hi All
I played around with waydroid and my Bluetooth headphones on my FP4 (OTA-1). At some point the music app stopped working. I tried reinstalling it through the openstore and manually through the terminal. In the openstore I click on install, it runs the progress bar, and then simply returns to showing the install button. Downloading and manually installing shows this:

pkcon install-local ~/Downloads/music.ubports_3.0.2_all.click
Installing files              [=========================]         
Finished                      [=========================]         
Fatal error: No such file /home/phablet/Downloads/music.ubports_3.0.2_all.click, or unknown or unsupported content type

Are there any further logs to consult? And where do I actually find the logs on UT?

thanks

kugiigi

Did you upgrade from xenial? In any case, try to uninstall it, reboot then reinstall.

gandalf

@kugiigi
Thanks for the reply. No, I wiped the phone clean and set it up fresh with the installer for focal. I tried reinstalling the Music app first and when that didn't work I uninstalled it. I have since rebooted a few times and I could never install it again

kugiigi

@gandalf Weird. But you can install other apps fine?

gandalf

@kugiigi
Yes, no, and finally yes again . I was able to remove and immediately reinstall a few apps (calculator, doc viewer, uVolMan). I then removed the calculator and rebooted the phone. I could no longer reinstall the calculator. When browsing the storage to find where the apps are stored and to see if there was anything left behind I came across this though:

root@ubuntu-phablet:/opt/click.ubuntu.com/.click/users/phablet# ls -l
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 phablet phablet 7 Apr 13 12:39 calculator.ubports -> @hidden
lrwxrwxrwx 1 phablet phablet 7 Apr  5 23:53 music.ubports -> @hidden

I was able to reinstall the calculator app after removing the calculator.ubports entry:

cd /opt/click.ubuntu.com/.click/users/phablet
rm calculator.ubports
rm music.ubports

For the music app I just removed the entry and rebooted. The Music app re-appeared again and is working :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

Does that mean removing apps just hides them from the default phablet user and reinstalling fails to remove that hiding flag?

arubislander

@gandalf Only for de pre-installed apps. regular apps really do get removed.

gandalf

@arubislander @kugiigi
Okay, thanks for the info. Those errors messages and symptoms look a bit disconnected from what's going on, but I got the player back

lduboeuf

If i'm not wrong, the WIP for that kind of issue is here: https://gitlab.com/ubports/development/core/click/-/merge_requests/31