Is there anyway to tell the system to stop caring so much about
system-critical services? I mean, the only to upgrade those is to flash
new firmware? Certainly this is not convenient. <br><br>
$./flasher-2.0 --set-rd-flags=no-lifeguard<div>-reset<br><br>may be a solution which I havent yet tried.<br><br>I
'm sorry for the frustrated post, getting the development environment
broken while in the middle of something is not much fun......:)</div><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/19/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kalle Vahlman</b> <<a href="mailto:kalle.vahlman@gmail.com">kalle.vahlman@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">2006/7/19, Thanos Panousis <<a href="mailto:pthanos@gmail.com">pthanos@gmail.com
</a>>:<br>> Hello again list,<br>><br>> I just survived a reboot loop the the device got into, after reflashing the<br>> firmware. After setting EVERYTHING up again, the same situation:<br>><br>> After finishing all the configuration and getting back to development, I:
<br>> 1. added some repositories<br>> 2.through ssh as root I did an apt-get update;apt-get upgrade<br>> 3. first time it failed, since I didnt have various binary utilis in the<br>> root's path (isnt this a "bug"? why should I have to append stuff to roots
<br>> $PATH?)<br><br>I think the official take on that would be that you shouldn't _be_<br>root in the first place ;)<br><br>> 4. After fixing $PATH, the configuration/installation started happily.<br>> Various packages needed upgrading. Only to stop during mid-flight, cause the
<br>> nokia decided to reboot. And from then on, constantly rebooting.<br>><br>> Why on earth is this happening, and why does it not happen to everybody<br>> doing software updates?<br><br>I'm hearing quite the opposite, people do get "bootloops" by doing sw
<br>updates. Upgrading certain packages stops services the system deems as<br>critical causing it to reboot (and leaving the packages broken I<br>guess).<br><br>> Is there something I can do except from reflashing<br>> and NEVER again try to apt-get upgrade?
<br><br>Considering that AFAIK apt-get upgrades not (currently) supported at<br>all by Nokia, not really.<br><br>--<br>Kalle Vahlman, <a href="mailto:zuh@iki.fi">zuh@iki.fi</a><br>Powered by <a href="http://movial.fi">http://movial.fi
</a><br>Interesting stuff at <a href="http://syslog.movial.fi">http://syslog.movial.fi</a><br></blockquote></div><br>