[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Reboot Cycle

[From: Marius Gedminas]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 04:27:32PM +0000, Michael Wiktowy wrote:
> Hello list,
> I got finally bit by the endless reboot cycle bug.
> 
> I have set the no-lifeguard-reset flag in R&D mode and now it doesn't
> reboot.
> I could also stop it from rebooting with a well timed press and hold of the
> power button right after the Nokia hands and chime come up.
> 
> However, all I get is the "white screen of death" after it boots.
> 
> The things that I installed since the last reboot were:
> - mweather desktop applet

It is a known mweather home applet bug: it crashes the desktop app on
startup, usually.  Disable the applet, and you won't get reboot loops.

If you have an ssh server on the device, I think you could ssh into it
and sudo apt-get remove mweather.  Or just keep rebooting until you get
lucky and mweather doesn't crash for you -- it doesn't *always* crash.

Marius Gedminas
-- 
Give a man a computer program and you give him a headache, but teach him to
program computers and you give him the power to create headaches for others for
the rest of his life...
        -- R. B. Forest
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