If have been injured for some month now, but hoping to be ready for Copenhagen Marathon 2010, and would therefore like to examine my last marathon using Pytrainer. I therefore installed it, and hoped it would work out of the box - but no :)

Enabling the Garmin HR plugin, restarting Pytrainer and clicking "Import from Garmin" did nothing, not even a warning or error in the terminal. Looking at my old post from 8.10, I opened /usr/share/pytrainer/plugins/garmin-hr/main.py to see what was going on.

Pytrainer is using gpsbabel like gpsbabel -t -i garmin -f %s -o gtrnctr -F /tmp/file.gtrnctr, where %s is the device, usb:. But running

gpsbabel -t -i garmin -f usb: -o gtrnctr -F /tmp/file.gtrnctr

in a terminal give this result:

Claim interfaced failed: could not claim interface 0: Operation not permitted

It is therefore still required to make a udev rule for the device.

How to get it working
Make the rule file

sudo gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/51-garmin.rules

add the below and close:

SYSFS{idVendor}=="091e", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0003", MODE="666"

restart udev:

sudo /etc/init.d/udev restart

Now Pytrainer can start gpsbabel, and retrieve data from the watch, which unfortunately just leads to another problem:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pytrainer/main.py", line 166, in runPlugin
self.record.importFromGTRNCTR(gtrnctrFile)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pytrainer/record.py", line 410, in importFromGTRNCTR
listTracksGPS = xmlParser.shortFromGPS(gtrnctrFile, True)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pytrainer/lib/xmlUtils.py", line 127, in shortFromGPS
tree = xml.etree.cElementTree.parse(gtrnctrFile).getroot()
File "", line 45, in parse
File "", line 32, in parse
SyntaxError: unbound prefix: line 13, column 8

According to this bug report, it is a problem between Pytrainer and gpsbabel 1.3.6. Luckily it is still possible to get gpsbabel 1.3.5 at http://packages.debian.org/lenny/i386/gpsbabel/download, which I downloaded and installed, and it worked with Pytrainer.

However, Pytrainer imports all data from today back to 24 May 2009, the date of the marathon, and stops without any error. It might be because this record has 43 laps, but I do not know. Anyway, it is quite useless if it is not possible to retrieve all data from the watch.

Install Eclipse Galileo from repository:

sudo apt-get install eclipse

A number of dependencies are required inside Eclipse, which has to be added. Start Eclipse from the menu, and select Help > Install new software... The below list of update sites has to be added, which is done be typing the URL in "Work with", click Add and then type the name in the name field followed by Ok. Do this for the below update sites (name followed by URL):

EMF, http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/updates/releases/
MyLyn, http://download.eclipse.org/tools/mylyn/update/e3.4/
GEF, http://download.eclipse.org/tools/gef/updates/releases/
DLTK, http://download.eclipse.org/releases/galileo/
Webtool, http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/updates/

PDT
Add http://download.eclipse.org/tools/pdt/updates/2.0/ with name PDT. Open "PDT SDK 2.1.2" and select "PHP Development Tools (PDT) Runtime Feature", click Next twice, accept the license and click Finish.

Subclipse
SVN integration (or one of them) in Eclipse is called Subclipse and is installed through update sites as well. Select Help > Install new software... and add http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.6.x into the "Work with" field and click Add type "Subclipse" in name and click Ok. Select all three options and click Next, Next, accept License and click Finish.

Checking out a project
Select File -> New -> Other in the new window select SVN -> Checkout Projects from SVN and click Next.

Select "Create a new repository location", click Next. Type SVN repository in URL, click Next. Type username and password if required. Select the part of the repository containing the project, click Finish.

If the repository not already holds project settings for Eclipse, select "Check out as a project configured using the New Project Wizard" and click Finish. In the New Project Wizard select PHP -> PHP Project and click Next. Give the project a name and you are ready to go - have fun! :)

Unfortunately, the installer (the alternative one) do not recognise the encrypted hard drive, and is therefore not able to use it. This little guide helps you to reuse your LVM layout - and your data!

NB: Use this guide at your own risk!

Follow the installation until "Set up network", then press ctrl-alt F2 to start a console and run

modprobe dm-crypt
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda5 sda5_crypt


Replace /dev/sda5 with your encrypted partition. You will now be prompted for your passphrase for the encrypted partition, after which you run

vgscan
vgchange -ay

in order to activate the lvm volumes.

Press ctrl-alt f1 to get back to the installer. When asked for partition method select Manual, and your encrypted LVM volumes are now on the list. You still need to set mount points etc., and remember NOT to mark them for formatting. Continue the installation.

Boot into rescue with your LVM root volume as /

Find the unique id for this "disk" from:
ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid

Insert a line like

sda5_crypt /dev/disk/by-uuid/df05112c-65bf-44a2-b6d1-a740c3444b53 none luks

into /etc/crypttab. Remember to use the uuid found above together with what ever name you have given the device. sda5_crypt will give a device called /dev/mapper/sda5_crypt

To avoid manually typing the uuid, it is possible just to do:
ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid >> /etc/crypttab
nano - /etc/crypttab

This will copy the entire content of "ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid" into the bottom of /etc/crypttab, and open the file for editing with nano.

Run update-initramfs -u, reboot and you are ready to go!