[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Apt-got my way into a reboot loop??

[From: Kalle Vahlman]

2006/7/19, Thanos Panousis <pthanos at gmail.com>:
> Hello again list,
>
> I just survived a reboot loop the the device got into, after reflashing the
> firmware. After setting EVERYTHING up again, the same situation:
>
> After finishing all the configuration and getting back to development, I:
> 1. added some repositories
> 2.through ssh as root I did an apt-get update;apt-get upgrade
> 3. first time it failed, since I didnt have various binary utilis in the
> root's path (isnt this a "bug"? why should I have to append stuff to roots
> $PATH?)

I think the official take on that would be that you shouldn't _be_
root in the first place ;)

> 4. After fixing $PATH, the configuration/installation started happily.
> Various packages needed upgrading. Only to stop during mid-flight, cause the
> nokia decided to reboot. And from then on, constantly rebooting.
>
>  Why on earth is this happening, and why does it not happen to everybody
> doing software updates?

I'm hearing quite the opposite, people do get "bootloops" by doing sw
updates. Upgrading certain packages stops services the system deems as
critical causing it to reboot (and leaving the packages broken I
guess).

> Is there something I can do except from reflashing
> and NEVER again try to apt-get upgrade?

Considering that AFAIK apt-get upgrades not (currently) supported at
all by Nokia, not really.

-- 
Kalle Vahlman, zuh at iki.fi
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