Richard Pickler wrote: > The second time, I was installing some packages I built myself, and it > crashed, which I could not recover from. (this one I'll take the blame > for). Why should you take the blame? This is a consumer oriented device and software installation is promoted as a user feature - it should not brick the device, period! What actually happened though - did the device end up in a reboot loop? > > This last time, I did nothing. The battery probably drained all the way > over the weekend, and when I plugged it back in, it wouldn't boot again. > Wouldn't boot at all or stuck in a reboot loop? > Any thoughts? Anybody else having problems like this? > You may need to provide more details, but quite a few people are experiencing reboot loops for no apparent reason, check https://maemo.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=999 for more details.