On 10/19/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Marius Gedminas</b> <<a href="mailto:marius@pov.lt">marius@pov.lt</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">It is a known mweather home applet bug: it crashes the desktop app on<br>
startup, usually. Disable the applet, and you won't get reboot loops.<br><br>If you have an ssh server on the device, I think you could ssh into it<br>and sudo apt-get remove mweather. Or just keep rebooting until you get
<br>lucky and mweather doesn't crash for you -- it doesn't *always* crash.</blockquote><div><br>
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.<br>
<br>
In any case, I successfully got my 770 desktop not to crash with the following steps:<br>
- powerup until you get the white screen of death<br>
- plug the charger in<br>
- "power off" the 770 (which actually just suspends it when the charger
is in) by pressing the power button and choosing "Switch off!"<br>
- power on after you see the lone charging symbol in the middle of the screen by pressing the power button<br>
<br>
When the desktop screen finally did come up, it was missing the middle
Contact button along the left hand side of the screen and the applet
had a "Failed" message in it.<br>
<br>
I also found that I didn't need the lifeguard disable hack to stop the
rebooting cycle. If I pressed and held the power key as soon as I saw
the Nokia hands, I could stop it in the white screen of death state.
Then a second press of the power button would switch the 770 off.<br>
<br>
So I am back to normal without having to reflash my firmware. Thanks
for confirming that this app was causing me trouble. Just figured that
I would relate some details of my unpleasant experience in hopes that
it might help others get out of their future reboot cycles.<br>
<br>
Nokia should consider some sort of "Safe mode" when lifeguard resets
the 770 a few times in sequence as the endless rebooting is not a fun
experience. I know X will only retry its start 3 times before dropping
to the command line. I think gdm may dump you to a extremely simple
session manager if it can't start the Gnome desktop too. You can start
Firefox up in a safe mode that will not load any extensions. This is
likely the best model to follow. <br>
<br>
However, an even better model would be to not allow crashing applets to take down your entire desktop.<br>
<br>
</div></div>/Mike<br>