On Tuesday 21 October 2003 1:09 pm, Jeff Elkins wrote: >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
I should mention that I'm working from an NFS dir mounted on the zaurus...sorry... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
