On Tuesday 21 October 2003 11:07 am, Joerg Sommer wrote: >Hi, > >I installed a Debian root on a SD card, but when I run apt-get ... it >starts "Reading package list", but it hangs.
Quoting from http://pocketworkstation.org/ >> On my Zaurus, operations that write lots of data to the MMC card often crash the Zaurus - it's still pingable, but the filesystem is dead. A typical symptom is "apt-get install" getting stuck at the "Getting package information..." stage. I think this is bug in the MMC/SD driver, everything works fine on a microdrive. Mounting the SD/MMC card in synchronous write mode makes things very slow, but helps prevent these crashes: mount /dev/mmcda1 -o remount,sync,noatime Don Leuenberger reported that running a background sync loop during the installation also helps prevent crashes: while true; do sync; sleep 1; done & << Haven't had that problem yet myself... Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
