N950 Harmattan deployment - Error while 'Deploy Debian package via SFTP upload'

[A Former User]

Hey, did you find answer to this, since I'm now getting the same error?
@ 11:06:04: Package created.
11:06:04: Installing package to sysroot ...
Package 'untitled' installed.

11:06:04: Preparing SFTP connection...
11:06:04: Starting upload...
11:06:04: Failed to upload package: Failure
11:06:04: Deploy step failed.
Error while building project untitled (target: Harmattan)
When executing build step 'Deploy Debian package via SFTP upload'

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[feldifux]

Hi,
I also experienced this error. In my case the problem was related to the file size of the debian package - if it was too big (everything above 3MB caused the error!) this message appeared and also as soon as it appeared for the first time, no other qt projects could be deployed to the device until I restarted the phone!

A notification warning about the little remaining data storage appeared on the phone after trying to install the deb package, however, I had plenty of storage left in each memory category (in particular I had more than 1GB left for applications, application data and user data categories, and the test application was only 3 MB).

Maybe you have the same file size issue?

[geronik]

The problem disappeared after updating QtCreator to version 2.4.0 through the QtSDK Maintenance tool !

[feldifux]

I am using 2.4 too but still having the issue..

[srikanth_trulyit]

I am also experiencing file size problem where in a notification about device memory comes up. Any one solved it?

[feldifux]

No I dont have a solution yet.

[A Former User]

Please "report a bug":http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/ about the file size problem.

[ludde]

Having the same problem, with my N9 - no matter what I do, I simply cannot deploy the .deb file to the device using Qt Creator. (Started "another thread":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/forums/viewthread/13599/ on this, before I realised that this one was dealing with the same problem).

Any help appreciated...

[A Former User]

http://www.developer.nokia.com/Community/Discussion/showthread.php?232047-How-to-deploy-to-Harmattan-N950-getting-failure.

[mlong]

Copying the resolution in the above link as posted by "lostdev":http://www.developer.nokia.com/Community/Discussion/member.php?818895-lostdev :

bq.
I almost forgot to tell that I found the cause of this problem. It seems that Qt Creator use /tmp as temporary folder into which it places .deb archive before installation. However, /tmp space is very limited on Harmattan, so, if there is a large .deb file, it can not be completely copied to this folder over sftp, and that's it. The quick fix is to make a symlink with name of .deb file in /tmp pointed to the file with the same name but in different folder (e.g. /var/tmp):
Code:
ln -s /var/tmp/file.deb /tmp/file.deb
and voila - Qt Creator will upload, install and run application without any issue.

[A Former User]

thanks mlong for adding this post.

[ludde]

Great, it works!
But it seems like the link is deleted when the installation is completed, so I have to create the link manually every time I want to deploy...

Is there no other way to solve this, like increasing the size of /tmp, or making Qt Creator not use /tmp?

[A Former User]

Thanks for the solution!

Is there no way to clear /tmp? Why did it work before but no more?

Found some more info about the problem, and it seems like it will be fixed in Qt Creator 2.5:
"http://blog.beford.org/2012/02/07/fix-for-failed-to-upload-package-failure-on-qtcreator/":http://blog.beford.org/2012/02/07/fix-for-failed-to-upload-package-failure-on-qtcreator/