On 2/12/07, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 02:50:04PM -0500, Jeff G wrote: > > I probably did something really stupid, but don't know how to recover. > > What you did is not stupid, but it is a common mistake: sudo apt-get > upgrade that tried to upgrade an important system package > (maemo-launcher). > > > Nokia770-26:/media/mmc1# apt-get upgrade hildon-libs0 > ... > > Preparing to replace maemo-launcher 0.17-1.1 (using > > .../maemo-launcher_0.17-1.1sdk1_armel.deb) ... > > Stopping Maemo Launcher: maemo-launcher. > > There is a process called the lifeguard. When a critical system process > dies, it reboots the device. Apt-get upgrade stopped maemo-launcher, > and shortly after that, the lifeguard rebooted the device. > > > Unpacking replacement maemo-launcher ... > > Preparing to replace maemo-recorder 0.0.18 (using > > .../maemo-recorder_0.0.19_armel.deb) ... > > Unpacking replacement maemo-recorder ... > > ----------------- > > > > Now, it keeps rebooting about one 30 seconds after the last reboot > > Unfortunately, your new maemo-launcher is not yet fully configured and > cannot start, so the device cannot boot, and restarts. > > There are two ways to fix this situation: > > 1. Reflash the OS, restore data from backups, reinstall applications > (and take care not to upgrade maemo-launcher again). > > 2. Enable R&D mode and disable lifeguard reset (with the flasher app), > boot, ssh into it and finish the interrupted upgrade. Disable R&D > mode and see if it works. If it doesn't, use alternative 1. > > In my humble opinion, maemo-launcher's preinst/postinst scripts should > never stop it. That's what, for example, gdm scripts do on desktop > Linux systems: if they find a running X server, the scripts do not > restart gdm. > > HTH, > Marius Gedminas > -- > if (DefRel.empty() == false) > -- apt-pkg/policy.cc (apt 0.5.23) > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFF0M4qkVdEXeem148RAuabAJ9waKwNHdQpoPn712akII/JtFfJsACffKFx > O173JlDJfSb0/D/zMIMAm7U= > =zYNw > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > > I wish I had seen this a few minutes earlier. I just reflashed.... Well, I learned a few more things today :-) 1. how to reflash 2. make sure to backup ! (I always KNEW it but didn't DO it)
