[maemo-users] Modrana running sometimes leads to battery disconnect reboot

[From: Paul Hartman]

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Mayuresh <mayuresh at acm.org> wrote:
> I find Modrana to be one of the best navigation applications freely
> available on N900 till the following happens:
>
> After a random amount of time of continuous usage (typically a few hours)
> of modrana, N900 hangs very badly in following state
>
> 1. You can't switch the display on by display toggle button.
> 2. It doesn't respond to calls, power button, camera or any such external
> event
> 3. The device starts getting very hot.
> 4. It doesn't respond over ssh if I try to login to it to figure out its
> state.
> 5. Only way out is to restart by removing the battery. (If I wait for a
> while for it to recover the battery gets drained.)
>
> I do not know of a way to enable logging so that some postmortem of this
> state can be made.
>
>
> Would appreciate any help to analyze this issue.

Sounds somewhat like this bug:

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9150

(except in my case SSH still works when the screen won't turn on)