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

[From: Ian]

Hi,
Not sure but maybe this will help you.
At the moment I am working my way through a 'branding' tutorial for my 770:
http://blog.2blocksaway.com/files/maemo-1.pdf

it seems using this you can replace totally the desktop/bookmarks/boot-up splash screens and so on
using a custom .deb. You can also install the apps you want after your new desktop is installed in
a postinstall shell script which calls dpkg -i on the app you want
[]'s
Ian
> 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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