Installing Rockbox using MacBook. What’s wrong?

[misnelstain5]

I’m not sure I’m missing something here, as this is becoming too difficult to be true.

I am running OSX Catalina and there is no installer for it on the website. I have tried 1.4.0 and the machine tells me the program creator needs to update the app. The 1.4.1 is not available for OSX to download, only Windows and Linux.

I attempted to download the manual firmware, many times. When it’s downloaded the folders are completely empty.

[bluebrother]

Rockbox Utility is a 32bit application (actually it's a fat binary that also runs on ppc). Nobody was able to build the recent release version, thus no binary exists. There are currently some issues with building it on MacOS.

The zip files you downloaded are not empty. They contain a folder that starts with a dot. This is hidden on MacOS. You can see that using the Terminal (or enable showing hidden files in Finder, though I don't know how to do that -- I'm using the terminal for stuff like that.) The manual should mention that in the manual installation section. Seems it doesn't explicitly do that though.

[bluebrother]

Finally managed to get an updated MacOS binary done. It's basically 1.4.1 with some changes to make it build on my old machine. Need to find time to get that in a state it can get merged back, but time is always this limiting factor. Targets 10.7 and up. Since I'm stuck at 10.11 I have no idea if ot works on Catalina.

If you want to try it:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8pPsvGJ3RdKfnhyTDAwTWstMlhNR3NDanZURHFzOEI4ZHhoQUJ5OXUzN1NDRlp0U0hZNzQ

[nickpicc06]

i just tried this. the installation process of the application was a breeze. i went to install rockbox 3.15 on my 5th gen ipod video and it said it was unsuccessful due to something with permissions. hope you can fix this as i have been waiting for someone to do this for a very long time.

[bluebrother]

i went to install rockbox 3.15 on my 5th gen ipod video and it said it was unsuccessful due to something with permissions. hope you can fix this as i have been waiting for someone to do this for a very long time.

No I can't.

"something" being wrong is way to unspecific for anyone to "fix" anything. You need to be as specific as possible for anyone to be able to help you. I have absolutely no idea what your problem is, so I can't do anything about it. As long as that's the case I cannot help you.

Ideally post the System Trace (Help / Troubleshoot / System Trace) output to pastebin.com or similar and put a link here.

[saratoga]

Does running as root matter on macos like on Linux? Could try that and see if it helps.

[nickpicc06]

ill keep it simple. when installing  rockbox on my 5.5 gen classic i get a message saying "could not open ipod: permission denied" displayed three times in the progress bar. i couldnt access the help icon.

[darkcity]

It looks like you have to be logged in as administrator or use 'launch as root'

Mac OS X 10.8-iPod Video installation problem
https://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=35271.0

[bluebrother]

ill keep it simple. when installing  rockbox on my 5.5 gen classic i get a message saying "could not open ipod: permission denied" displayed three times in the progress bar. i couldnt access the help icon.

Ok, let me try to recapture what you did without knowing what you did.

• You started Rockbox Utility
• Went to the configuration dialog. Pressed Autodetect, player was detected as an Ipod Video, pressed Ok.
• Enabled Bootloader and Rockbox in the main window. Pressed Install.
• A dialog box appears that shows the progress, and that shows the text "could not open Ipod: permission denied"
• Failed to spot the blue "Save Log" button in the bottom left corner of that dialog box, which would have saved all relevant information to a file and avoided people having to guess.
• Failed to find the menu bar and its "Help" item, which has a subitem "Troubleshoot" that holds "System Trace", which is what I did ask for.

Is that correct?

Try the following: Press cmd-Space. Type Terminal, then press Enter. Type the following:

sudo /Volumes/RockboxUtility/RockboxUtility.app/Contents/MacOS/RockboxUtility

You'll end up with a password prompt in the terminal. Enter your password. Rockbox Utility will start. Try installing the bootloader again.

And repeating myself: You need to be as specific as possible for anyone to be able to help you. I'm not motivated to do guesswork, especially since I'm not getting paid for this.

[nickpicc06]

i copied the command text into terminal and got this message.  sudo: /Volumes/RockboxUtility/RockboxUtility.app/Contents/MacOS/RockboxUtility: command not found

[saratoga]

Where is your rockbox utility installed?  Try and fix that path if it is installed somewhere else.

[nickpicc06]

its installed in applications

[bluebrother]

Ok, so I don't know if my guessing was correct. Assuming it was.

Why did you install Rockbox Utility? There's no need to do that. Double-click the dmg, MacOS will then mount the volume and it will appear at the path I mentioned. At least on my box running 10.11, and since I have no clue what you're running I can only assume it'll be the same.