[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Re: rebooting constantly after upgradingpackages

[From: Devesh Kothari]

Please note the warning on
http://maemo.org/downloads/download-sdk.html#Package+repository

DONT USE THE maemo.org repository to upgrade your device. IT IS
CURRENTLY NOT MEANT FOR THIS AN DEVICE UPGRADE HAS NEVER BEEN TESTED.
UPGRADE only maemo rootstrap installed INSIDE SB development environment.

Devesh


ext Álvaro J. Iradier wrote:

> The audio/video playing is fixed by removing / moving a gstreamer
> library file (I can't remember the name or the location, maybe try
> searching the archives, something with "lib" and "jitter"?) that
> causes a segfault. I had to move it to another folder, then restart
> the device, and playing worked perfect again.
>
> Greets.
>
> On 8/31/06, Andrey Khurri <andrey.khurri at hiit.fi> wrote:
> >
> >  Santtu Lakkala wrote:
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> > Álvaro J. Iradier wrote:
> >
> >
> >  Yes, basically you'll need to disable lifeguard flag, and then
> > complete the apt-get upgrade using ssh (when updating maemo-launcher
> > xterm will be killed).
> >
> >
> >
> >  This actually depends on which version of osso-xterm is used, the one
> > from maemo[1] repositories does not use maemo-launcher, so it is safe to
> > use; however, the one from maemo-hackers[2] does use, and will be
> killed.
> >
> >
> >  I was using xterm from maemo-hackers so it was killed. I followed
> the steps
> > suggested above and in some previous threads and set the flag
> > 'no-lifeguard-reset'. After that my device didn't reboot anymore. I
> > completed upgrade with 'dpkg --configure -a' and it seemed to fix
> the mess
> > with my packages. However, after that I decided to try to clear that
> flag
> > back hoping that tablet now does not need it. Clearing the flag resulted
> > again in cycle reboot of my system. I was wondering whether this
> behavior
> > is alright?
> >
> >  Also as was mentioned by Johannes  Eickhold in
> > http://maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2006-August/005349.html
> > video and audio players are not able to play files any more after this
> > failure. With regards to this problem is flashing device the only
> way to fix
> > it?
> >
>
>
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>   Alvaro J. Iradier Muro - airadier at gmail.com
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