On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 08:46:39PM +0300, Ville Ranki wrote: > On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 12:18 +0200, Armin M. Warda wrote: > > > Besides just being able to disable/enable the lifeguard, to me it > > would even make sense if the N770 would support another setting, > > in which it only would advice the user that an essential component > > just failed and a reboot would probably fix the problem. > > I just installed a bunch of applications and now the device is > in reboot cycle. The only desktop applet i installed was gnomeweather, > so i think it might be responsible for this. Yes, it is. I've added a warning about this to the ApplicationCatalog2006Wip page a while ago. If anyone has any ideas how to debug a home page applet that only crashes on reboot, please let me know. I wasn't able to reproduce the crash inside Scratchbox. > As a new feature for > Karoliina i'd suggest either: > > 1) > Dialog that tells user if a essential component has been > killed and restart it. Gnome panel is a good example - > If it crashes, it restarts itself. If a panel applet > crashes, panel prompts user if he/she wishes to restart > the applet or remove it from panel. > > 2) > "Safe mode". If the device reboots two times spontaniously > it could do some sanity checks and for example disable all > extra desktop applets. +1 > Normal user would now take the device to service but i'll > try disabling the lifeguard reset.. Marius Gedminas -- Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20060822/0d23f557/attachment.pgp
