* Jeff Elkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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...
It _is_ mounted -o nolock, right? -- Chris Larson - kergoth at handhelds dot org Embedded Linux Developer - clarson at ti dot com OpenZaurus Project Maintainer - http://openzaurus.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
