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

[From: Thanos Panousis]

Is there anyway to tell the system to stop caring so much about
system-critical services? I mean, the only to upgrade those is to flash new
firmware? Certainly this is not convenient.

$./flasher-2.0 --set-rd-flags=no-lifeguard-reset

may be a solution which I havent yet tried.

I 'm sorry for the frustrated post, getting the development environment
broken while in the middle of something is not much fun......:)


On 7/19/06, Kalle Vahlman <kalle.vahlman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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