[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] permanet reboot after use of flasher 2.0

[From: Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 12:35:58PM +0200, Mathias Uebelacker wrote:
> is it possible, that the problems depends on the creation of a virtual
> memory on the MMC using the feature of the control panel?. Every time i
> would like to use this tool i got the message that the MMC is broken.

I've heard that swap might be a bit unstable in the beta.
Do you have a need to use swap?


	- Eero
	
> grettings Mathias
> 
> Am Donnerstag, den 22.06.2006, 13:33 +0300 schrieb Eero Tamminen:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 07:17:59PM +0200, Ramon Navarro Bosch wrote:
> > > I've removed battery, and now it doesn't reboot again. I doesn't have
> > > contact button on the left sidebar. I've tried df and I have enought
> > > space 50%. I'm not using swap. Can I debug this ?
> > 
> > When the reboot happens?
> > 
> > 1) before the bootup progressbar is shown,
> >    -> most likely device HW watchdog reboots the device
> >       because there was problem when mounting/writing to
> >       the rootfs
> > 2) while the bootup progressbar is advancing, or
> >    -> most likely device SW watchdog reboots the device because
> >       there's a problem with some critical system service
> >       (could also be reason 1)
> > 3) after Desktop has fully booted up
> > ???
> > 
> > If 1), you can:
> > - use flasher to set device to boot from MMC.  There's -b flasher
> >   option to set kernel command line args, and AFAIK MMC is the
> >   device /dev/mmcblk0p1.  On the MMC you need /sbin/init (might
> >   be script?) and environment that somehow allows you to type things.
> >   Easiest to achieve latter would probably to have a "rescue fs"
> >   that contains:
> >   - busybox
> >   - X server from the normal rootfs
> >   - matchbox and xkbd/matchbox-keyboard
> >   - xterm/rxtvt
> >   - some debug tools (gdb, strace etc) so that you can debug
> >     things after mounting the internal rootfs and chrooting
> >     there
> >   Would be nice if people on the list would get this together.
> >   (I haven't tested this myself)
> > 
> > If 2), you can:
> > - Set following flasher flags:
> >   --enable-rd-mode --set-rd-flags no-lifeguard-reset --enable-usb-host-mode
> >   This:
> >   - disables device SW watchdog so that it's not rebooted
> >   - allows you to establish USB serial connection to the device.
> >     People on the list might have URLs to docs on how to do this
> > 
> > If 3), debugging should be "piece of cake" ;-)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > I thing that must be
> > > something with contact/email application because before reboot each time
> > > contact information on main screen finished to be writen.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 	- Eero
> > 
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