[maemo-developers] Continuous reboot problem with the N770 hacker edition

[From: Rainer Dorsch]

Hi Markku,

I have no idea how I can replace the binary when the N770 is rebooting itself 
before the desktop is up :-( Is that possible?

If not, that translates for me, that I have to reinstall the N770. Are there 
any plans to update the N770 hacker edition image in near future to fix bugs 
like this? If yes, I would probably wait for a few days and test the updated 
image (and would be happy to pick up the other improvements;-)

Thanks,
Rainer


Am Mittwoch, 25. April 2007 09:31 schrieben Sie:
> Hi,
>
> Hacker edition is based on same software than the _original_ N800
> release. The first update for N800 is likely to contain many updated
> packages.
>
> RSS applet was not modified for "hacker edition", so if it's causing
> problems, you might be able to replace the old binary by new one just by
> copying the new version to your 770.
>
> -Markku-
>
> Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> > Am Montag, 23. April 2007 10:16 schrieb Eero Tamminen:
>
> ...clip...
>
> >>This sounds like Desktop crashing.  If you have RSS applet enabled
> >>in Desktop *and* the Hacker edition is based on a version earlier than
> >>the latest N800 release, it could be a the crasher bug in RSS applet
> >>that was fixed to the latest release (once it got a feed item with
> >>"a strange" URL, the applet always crashed (Desktop) immediately after
> >>applet had been loaded by the Desktop).
> >>
> >>
> >>	- Eero
> >>
> >>PS. In gnome Desktop the crasher bugs in panel applets are not so fatal
> >>because they are run as separate processes.  You notice this easily from
> >>the Gnome desktop memory usage...
> >
> > Eero,
> >
> > thanks for the quick reply.
> >
> > SU-18_2007HACKER_2.2006.47-17_PR_F5_MR0_ARM.bin
> >
> > was installed on the device. Not sure, if that was based on the latest
> > release. I am not sure, if I disabled RSS, at least I did not customize
> > it.
> >
> > Can I boot the device from an external image on the MMC card or provided
> > by flasher to find out what the root cause of the problem is/was?
> >
> > Thanks for the explanation, why you hae a single process, causing the
> > complete desktop to die when an applet has a problem.

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