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2007-12-31
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That is no error, and you don't want to fix it. Many processes do fork into multiple instances.
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2007-12-31
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Oh really? I see. This doesn't happen on Linux though. Like Ubuntu and Debian. Can you explain technically what actually happens with these forks and its purpose?
Im still curious to know if I could delete everything in root and be able to flash, or some sort of super flash to wipe out every single thing. Cos im pretty sure, a flash does not completely replace everything.
I've done a lotta flashing between OS2008, OS2007, and some Dev version, and theres always little bits of pieces left behind from the previous flash. So I always feel a bit dirty after each flash. I want squeeky clean! I thought this way cos of the duplicate processes, but since you say that it's normal, then I guess flashing reformats well enough.
Would still like to know about removing root though.
Thanks for the quick response.
Last edited by robin; 2007-12-31 at 12:18.
Im still curious to know if I could delete everything in root and be able to flash, or some sort of super flash to wipe out every single thing. Cos im pretty sure, a flash does not completely replace everything.
I've done a lotta flashing between OS2008, OS2007, and some Dev version, and theres always little bits of pieces left behind from the previous flash. So I always feel a bit dirty after each flash. I want squeeky clean! I thought this way cos of the duplicate processes, but since you say that it's normal, then I guess flashing reformats well enough.
Would still like to know about removing root though.
Thanks for the quick response.
Last edited by robin; 2007-12-31 at 12:18.
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2007-12-31
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Of course it does happen on Linux, and anywhere else for trhat matter - forking/IPC or threading are the standard way of handling asynchronous tasks in a multitasking environment.
YMMV whether it becomes obvious. There is no great difference process wise between threading and forking in Linux, the visibility of threads and forked processes depends on the threading model (on Linux threads, threads were processes in every aspect, NPTL changed that somewhat), and the version of ps/top you use (the busybox variants used on the IT make no effort to merge threads and forks, while some graphical process viewers will - erroneously - even recombine separately started instances into one process) and the arguments you call them with.
YMMV whether it becomes obvious. There is no great difference process wise between threading and forking in Linux, the visibility of threads and forked processes depends on the threading model (on Linux threads, threads were processes in every aspect, NPTL changed that somewhat), and the version of ps/top you use (the busybox variants used on the IT make no effort to merge threads and forks, while some graphical process viewers will - erroneously - even recombine separately started instances into one process) and the arguments you call them with.
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2007-12-31
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Ahh I see even more. I guess the 'ps' on my Ubuntu is hiding those thread/fork information. Good to know.
Thank you.
Oh by the way, something unrelated.
In date&time, you can't pick Perth, Australia as home city.
There are:
Sydney, Australia
Melbourne, Australia
Canberra, Australia
But no god damn Perth!!! It's in Western Australia. There is a city on the West too! The desert is in the middle!
Where should I be taking this complain to? Nokia? Maemo?
Oh heres a forum-based thank you too.
Last edited by robin; 2007-12-31 at 12:36.
Thank you.
Oh by the way, something unrelated.
In date&time, you can't pick Perth, Australia as home city.
There are:
Sydney, Australia
Melbourne, Australia
Canberra, Australia
But no god damn Perth!!! It's in Western Australia. There is a city on the West too! The desert is in the middle!
Where should I be taking this complain to? Nokia? Maemo?
Oh heres a forum-based thank you too.
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2007-12-31
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Originally Posted by robin
Wow...could you be more specific? Doesn't reflashing -- by definition -- wipe flash and insert a new image? I seriously doubt that, if there were some remnant bits were left over, there were enough in the right sequence to form a file and an inode... But I'm interested if there is and if it affects the next reflash.
I've done a lotta flashing between OS2008, OS2007, and some Dev version, and theres always little bits of pieces left behind from the previous flash.
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My suspicion for " little bits of pieces left behind from the previous flash" was mainly due to the duplicate processes, which sevo has already explained that it is normal.
My other suspicions were from reading other people's complaints of their device not performing the way they used to even after clean reflash. Slow browsing and all.
Then there are complaints of background processes which are silently draining battery while off or idle.
Then this thread, http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...d.php?p=118288
And whole bunch of other little threads saying flashing aint helping.
Then I found out about the duplicate processes on MY device and I've been experiencing slowless in OS2008 compared to OS2007 possibly due to the multiple duplicate processes. I was convinced that flash does not erase things properly.
Now that sevo has cleared things up, I guess I was paranoid. So flash should be doing what it's supposed to. Unless someone pops up and says otherwise.
Last edited by robin; 2007-12-31 at 13:20.
My other suspicions were from reading other people's complaints of their device not performing the way they used to even after clean reflash. Slow browsing and all.
Then there are complaints of background processes which are silently draining battery while off or idle.
Then this thread, http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...d.php?p=118288
And whole bunch of other little threads saying flashing aint helping.
Then I found out about the duplicate processes on MY device and I've been experiencing slowless in OS2008 compared to OS2007 possibly due to the multiple duplicate processes. I was convinced that flash does not erase things properly.
Now that sevo has cleared things up, I guess I was paranoid. So flash should be doing what it's supposed to. Unless someone pops up and says otherwise.
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2007-12-31
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Originally Posted by robin
http://www.rwhitby.net/blog/n800/add...sso-clock.html
Oh by the way, something unrelated.
In date&time, you can't pick Perth, Australia as home city.
There are:
Sydney, Australia
Melbourne, Australia
Canberra, Australia
Here's the instructions I used to add a new timezone (was easier for me because I could just follow them being in Adelaide as well - you'll have to find the pixel offset yourself). I couldn't follow the second part (cloc_db_city_Adelaide bit) because the file wasn't there, but it seems to work fine without it.
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2007-12-31
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Oh and Adelaide, Australia isn't included too.
Thanks for the fix.
But OS2008 (and previous versions) needs you to manually adjust the time anyway. The point of choosing your city and country is so that the time will automatically set and sync itself with NTP or something, which it doesn't.
Oh I still wanna know if I could rm -R / without bricking the system.
Last edited by robin; 2007-12-31 at 13:17.
Thanks for the fix.
But OS2008 (and previous versions) needs you to manually adjust the time anyway. The point of choosing your city and country is so that the time will automatically set and sync itself with NTP or something, which it doesn't.
Oh I still wanna know if I could rm -R / without bricking the system.
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2007-12-31
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Originally Posted by robin
Linux runs off the filesystem. There's no special kernel code stuck somewhere in inaccessible ROM... The ROM boot code simply finds the right file on the system to bring into memory and start up.
Oh I still wanna know if I could rm -R / without bricking the system.
Doing an "rm -R /" will wipe out the kernel files needed to start up the system as well as all supporting files.
There are duplicate proccess of the same process running.
In my terminal, I run 'ps'. Output below:
PID Uid VSZ Stat Command 1 root 1468 SW init [2] 2 root SWN [ksoftirqd/0] 3 root SW [watchdog/0] 4 root SW< [events/0] 5 root SW< [khelper] 6 root SW< [kthread] 14 root SW< [dvfs/0] 65 root SW< [kblockd/0] 66 root SW< [kseriod] 78 root SW< [OMAP McSPI/0] 85 root SW< [ksuspend_usbd] 88 root SW< [khubd] 112 root SW [pdflush] 113 root SW [pdflush] 114 root SW< [kswapd0] 115 root SW< [aio/0] 118 root SW< [mipid_esd] 237 root SW [mtdblockd] 279 root SW< [kondemand/0] 280 root SW< [kmmcd] 291 root SW< [krfcommd] 327 root 1108 SW< dsme -d -l syslog -v 4 -p /usr/lib/dsme/libstartup.so 335 root 776 SW /usr/bin/bme_RX-34 337 root 564 SW /usr/sbin/kicker 386 root SW< [cx3110x] 406 root SWN [jffs2_gcd_mtd4] 438 root 1576 SW< /sbin/udevd --daemon 640 messagebus 2312 SW< /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system 670 haldaemon 4116 SW /usr/sbin/hald 671 root 2800 SW hald-runner 730 root 2436 SW /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-omap-gpio 731 root 2436 SW /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-omap-gpio 732 root 2436 SW /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-omap-gpio 733 root 2436 SW /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-omap-gpio 734 root 2940 SW hald-addon-input: Listening on /dev/input/event2 /dev 735 root 2436 SW /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-mmc 736 root 2436 SW /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-mmc 738 root 2952 SW /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-cpufreq 751 root 3636 SW< /sbin/mce --force-syslog 767 root 11888 SW< /usr/bin/Xomap -mouse tslib -nozap -dpi 96 -wr -nolis 794 user 1444 SW< /usr/sbin/temp-reaper 797 user 2048 SW< /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --session 801 user 7096 SW< /usr/lib/sapwood/sapwood-server 805 user 6520 SW< /usr/bin/matchbox-window-manager -theme default -use_ 813 root SW< [dsp/0] 816 root SW< [dsp/0] 819 root 2952 SW /usr/sbin/dsp_dld -p --disable-restart -c /lib/dsp/ds 825 root 2792 SW< /usr/bin/bme-dbus-proxy -N 884 root 4804 SW /usr/sbin/multimediad 890 root 2176 SW< /usr/bin/esd 918 systemui 16936 SW< /usr/bin/systemui 944 root SW< [file-storage-ga] 947 haldaemon 2508 SW hald-addon-usb-cable: listening on /sys/devices/plat 955 root 7836 SW< /usr/sbin/ke-recv 974 user 18960 SW< /usr/bin/maemo-launcher --daemon --send-app-died --bo 983 nobody 1812 SW< /usr/sbin/dnsmasq -k -i lo -a 127.0.0.1 -z 986 root 2924 SW< /usr/bin/btcond -l 989 root 2520 SW< /usr/sbin/hcid -n -x -s 992 root 2452 SW< /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd-service-audio 993 root 2412 SW< /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd-service-input 999 root 3580 SW< /usr/sbin/wlancond 1002 root 3204 SW< /usr/sbin/icd 1035 user 1448 SW< /usr/bin/hildon-input-method 1036 user 27472 SW< /usr/bin/hildon-input-method 1039 user 3916 SW< /usr/bin/clipboard-manager 1041 messagebus 3324 SW /usr/lib/gconf2/gconfd-2 1120 user 1448 SW< /usr/bin/hildon-desktop 1121 user 39748 SW< /usr/bin/hildon-desktop 1160 user 1448 SW< /usr/bin/osso-connectivity-ui-conndlgs 1161 user 27884 SW< /usr/bin/osso-connectivity-ui-conndlgs 1167 user 7416 SW< /usr/bin/osso-media-server 1191 user 3192 SW< /usr/bin/obexsrv -l 1211 user 5232 SW /usr/bin/alarmd 1244 root 5084 SW< /usr/sbin/hulda 1245 root 3036 SW< /usr/sbin/hulda 1265 user 16308 SW /usr/bin/mediaplayer-engine 1271 user 16084 SWN /usr/bin/metalayer-crawler -F 1287 user 7944 SW /usr/libexec/gnome-vfs-daemon 1321 messagebus 14392 SW /usr/bin/eapd 1324 root 1472 SW< /sbin/udhcpc -i wlan0 -s /etc/udhcpc/udhcpc.script -f 1538 root 3168 SWN /usr/sbin/sshd 1612 root 5776 SWN sshd: root@pts/0 1614 root 1960 SWN -sh 1630 user 93028 SW /usr/bin/browser 1637 user 1448 SW /usr/bin/osso_rss_feed_reader 1638 user 36820 SW /usr/bin/osso_rss_feed_reader 1640 user 1448 SW /usr/bin/osso-xterm 1641 user 21816 SW /usr/bin/osso-xterm 1642 user 1960 SW -sh 1645 root 1960 RWN psFlashing doesn't help. With or without restoring backup.
So is it a good idea to manually remove the whole filesystem in the terminal like this?
rm -R /
Then be able to boot up the N800 and flash it as instructed here http://maemo.org/community/wiki/howt...magewithlinux/ ?
This post is also related to this thread http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...288#post118288