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2009-08-28
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I found a problem with console-tools (latest version from links page 1). It doesn't uninstall cleanly, but leaves behind several binaries in /bin
ls -clrt /bin shows me (truncated):
partprobe parted lfdisk gfdisk fdisk cfdisk are all binaries (or symbolic links to binaries) which were placed in /bin by the scripts run by console-tools. And there is similar in /sbin, where it leaves behind:
tune2fs mkfs.ext3 mkfs.ext2 mke2fs logsave fsck.ext3 fsck.ext2 fsck findfs e2label e2image e2fsck dumpe2fs debugfs badblocks resize2fs blkid
None of these binaries or symbolic links are removed because they are not created until the console-tools scripts are run, as can be seen by running dpkg -L console-tools, and of course if dpkg doesn't know about the binaries it cannot remove them on running apt-get remove console-tools.
ls -clrt /bin shows me (truncated):
Code:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Dec 4 2008 chgrp -> busybox lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Dec 4 2008 cat -> busybox lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Dec 4 2008 ash -> busybox lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Dec 4 2008 pidof -> ../sbin/killall5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Aug 27 01:50 rnano -> nano -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 137360 Aug 27 01:50 nano -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 367688 Aug 27 19:24 bash -rwxr-xr-x 1 user users 46982 Aug 28 22:34 partprobe -rwxr-xr-x 1 user users 176844 Aug 28 22:34 parted lrwxrwxrwx 1 user users 5 Aug 28 22:34 lfdisk -> fdisk lrwxrwxrwx 1 user users 5 Aug 28 22:34 gfdisk -> fdisk -rwxr-xr-x 1 user users 197956 Aug 28 22:34 fdisk -rwxr-xr-x 1 user users 66037 Aug 28 22:34 cfdisk
tune2fs mkfs.ext3 mkfs.ext2 mke2fs logsave fsck.ext3 fsck.ext2 fsck findfs e2label e2image e2fsck dumpe2fs debugfs badblocks resize2fs blkid
None of these binaries or symbolic links are removed because they are not created until the console-tools scripts are run, as can be seen by running dpkg -L console-tools, and of course if dpkg doesn't know about the binaries it cannot remove them on running apt-get remove console-tools.
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2009-10-15
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@ Buenos Aires, Argentina
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#253
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Lately, when I restart my N810, the boot menu does not offer options (only seen "Press and hold Menu ...") and after a couple of seconds it turns off automatically.
After several (and I mean SEVERAL) attempts, finally the menu appears and I can boot without problems. Until the next reboot.
Removing the SD card does not change the situation.
I tried to clone again, but did not help.
What can this be? Is there a solution?
After several (and I mean SEVERAL) attempts, finally the menu appears and I can boot without problems. Until the next reboot.
Removing the SD card does not change the situation.
I tried to clone again, but did not help.
What can this be? Is there a solution?
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2009-10-16
, 14:04
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#254
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Originally Posted by alephito
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=22278
Lately, when I restart my N810, the boot menu does not offer options (only seen "Press and hold Menu ...") and after a couple of seconds it turns off automatically.
After several (and I mean SEVERAL) attempts, finally the menu appears and I can boot without problems. Until the next reboot.
Removing the SD card does not change the situation.
I tried to clone again, but did not help.
What can this be? Is there a solution?
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2009-10-22
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#255
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Thanks, penguinbait, but it did no work. It only changed the boot partition when I finally can see the Boot Menu. My problem is prior to that moment.
Maybe I wasn't clear enough. I made a little video to show you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPQnSmqUWMA
Thanks.
Maybe I wasn't clear enough. I made a little video to show you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPQnSmqUWMA
Thanks.
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2009-10-22
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#256
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Originally Posted by alephito
Is the battery dead? Thats wierd I have not seen that behavior before. How does it behave with the power plugged in?
Thanks, penguinbait, but it did no work. It only changed the boot partition when I finally can see the Boot Menu. My problem is prior to that moment.
Maybe I wasn't clear enough. I made a little video to show you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPQnSmqUWMA
Thanks.
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Starting from off
Plug in power, this should start the tablet and display bootmenu
Select the partition to boot, it then should turn off
Wait for about 10 seconds, and it will then say charging and the green light will be blinking.
Then power it on again and it will boot up to the partition you previously selected.
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I am only suggesting this to see if it behaves normally when plugged into power?
It is an odd behavior I have not seen before has ANYONE??
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To all my Maemo friends. I will no longer be monitoring any of my threads here on a regular basis. I am no longer supporting anything I did under maemo at maemo.org. If you need some help with something you can reach me at tablethacker.com or www.facebook.com/penguinbait. I have disabled my PM's here, and removed myself from Council email and Community mailing list. There has been some fun times, see you around.
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2009-10-22
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@ Virginia, USA
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#257
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Have a quick question, I need to know if this will work. I suspect I'm good to go, but I wanted to put it out there to make sure.
When I started booting off of the (internal) SD, I broke it up into four partitions: a small (256MB VFAT) partition, two 768MB partitions (nominally for Maemo and Mer) and a 256MB swap. Well, I have never gotten around to installing Mer, and my Maemo partition has grown to near capacity. What I would like to do is get rid of partition 3 and combine it with partition 2, giving me a 256MB, a 1.5GB for the OS, and the swap.
1. Back up; turn off swap on the SD partition.
2. Boot onto flash
3. fdisk and delete partition 3, then create partition 2.
4. create an ext3 partition on 2.
5. delete partition 4 and make it partition 3.
6. mkswap
7. Restore backup.
At this point, I should be golden...Restore the swap and off to the races, right? Did I forget anything?
Thanks,
--vr
When I started booting off of the (internal) SD, I broke it up into four partitions: a small (256MB VFAT) partition, two 768MB partitions (nominally for Maemo and Mer) and a 256MB swap. Well, I have never gotten around to installing Mer, and my Maemo partition has grown to near capacity. What I would like to do is get rid of partition 3 and combine it with partition 2, giving me a 256MB, a 1.5GB for the OS, and the swap.
1. Back up; turn off swap on the SD partition.
2. Boot onto flash
3. fdisk and delete partition 3, then create partition 2.
4. create an ext3 partition on 2.
5. delete partition 4 and make it partition 3.
6. mkswap
7. Restore backup.
At this point, I should be golden...Restore the swap and off to the races, right? Did I forget anything?
Thanks,
--vr
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2009-10-22
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#258
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Originally Posted by penguinbait
No, it is a new one. From Mugen's. Charged at full.
Is the battery dead? Thats wierd I have not seen that behavior before.
Originally Posted by penguinbait
No, it doesn't. It stays off. And for about 10 seconds I cannot turn it on again.
How does it behave with the power plugged in?
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Starting from off
Plug in power, this should start the tablet and display bootmenu
Originally Posted by penguinbait
Maybe something is wrong with my hardware?
Select the partition to boot, it then should turn off
Wait for about 10 seconds, and it will then say charging and the green light will be blinking.
Then power it on again and it will boot up to the partition you previously selected.
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I am only suggesting this to see if it behaves normally when plugged into power?
It is an odd behavior I have not seen before has ANYONE??
Tonight I will try the same with the original (now faulty) battery.
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2009-10-22
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Originally Posted by alephito
I am suspecting some sort of power problem, is the battery you have the exact same one that shipped with 810? Or is it a different model but works?
No, it is a new one. From Mugen's. Charged at full.
No, it doesn't. It stays off. And for about 10 seconds I cannot turn it on again.
Maybe something is wrong with my hardware?
Tonight I will try the same with the original (now faulty) battery.
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To all my Maemo friends. I will no longer be monitoring any of my threads here on a regular basis. I am no longer supporting anything I did under maemo at maemo.org. If you need some help with something you can reach me at tablethacker.com or www.facebook.com/penguinbait. I have disabled my PM's here, and removed myself from Council email and Community mailing list. There has been some fun times, see you around.
To all my Maemo friends. I will no longer be monitoring any of my threads here on a regular basis. I am no longer supporting anything I did under maemo at maemo.org. If you need some help with something you can reach me at tablethacker.com or www.facebook.com/penguinbait. I have disabled my PM's here, and removed myself from Council email and Community mailing list. There has been some fun times, see you around.
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2009-10-22
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Originally Posted by VulcanRidr
You need to delete partition 2, 3, 4 and then create p2 ext3 and p3 swap. Right?
Have a quick question, I need to know if this will work. I suspect I'm good to go, but I wanted to put it out there to make sure.
When I started booting off of the (internal) SD, I broke it up into four partitions: a small (256MB VFAT) partition, two 768MB partitions (nominally for Maemo and Mer) and a 256MB swap. Well, I have never gotten around to installing Mer, and my Maemo partition has grown to near capacity. What I would like to do is get rid of partition 3 and combine it with partition 2, giving me a 256MB, a 1.5GB for the OS, and the swap.
1. Back up; turn off swap on the SD partition.
2. Boot onto flash
3. fdisk and delete partition 3, then create partition 2.
4. create an ext3 partition on 2.
5. delete partition 4 and make it partition 3.
6. mkswap
7. Restore backup.
At this point, I should be golden...Restore the swap and off to the races, right? Did I forget anything?
Thanks,
--vr
Also you need to mkfs.ext3 on the new ext3 partition before restoring the backup.
1 more thing, I would reboot after using fdisk before doing anything else.
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To all my Maemo friends. I will no longer be monitoring any of my threads here on a regular basis. I am no longer supporting anything I did under maemo at maemo.org. If you need some help with something you can reach me at tablethacker.com or www.facebook.com/penguinbait. I have disabled my PM's here, and removed myself from Council email and Community mailing list. There has been some fun times, see you around.
To all my Maemo friends. I will no longer be monitoring any of my threads here on a regular basis. I am no longer supporting anything I did under maemo at maemo.org. If you need some help with something you can reach me at tablethacker.com or www.facebook.com/penguinbait. I have disabled my PM's here, and removed myself from Council email and Community mailing list. There has been some fun times, see you around.
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Have to reflash the sucker. If someone has tried it.... if they could let me know if there's something different here. I wouldn't think so, but then again, who knows.
Keypad wouldn't work and the debug message flashed on and off so I couldn't see what the error was.