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

[From: George Farris]

On Thu, 2006-19-10 at 18:33 -0400, Michael Wiktowy wrote:
> On 10/19/06, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
> 
>         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.
> 
> I suppose I should have looked up that applet on the
> ApplicationCatalogue2006 wiki as there is a big fat warning that this
> applet is unstable and a WIP. I just installed it from the Application
> Manager having no idea it was still a WIP.

The question really is, why is this, in it's current state, installable
with the Application Manager?  It should be removed from the
repositories.