2008/6/9 David Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have an XO-1 that has stopped booting correctly after I tried to install > some large activities from a flash drive.
Ugh, that sounds bad. .... > for minutes due to "respawning too fast" and I have a window when I can log > onto the back end / shell as root and type commands. But not sure what to > do! press enter and you will get a line starting with "#" and the cursor next to it - that is a root prompt. First of all, call the following command (the # here is for illustration, you don't need to type it) # su olpc Now you have switched to the olpc user - this gives you a safer environment, and changes the "prompt" to "$", so you'll see "$" followed by the cursor. So do (again the $ is for illustration) $ df -h this will list various mountpoints, the main one is the one named "/" and it will show you space available. If it's really very low, then your diagnosis is correct. If there is disk space and the problem is different - don't follow the instructions below ;-) So - assuming a real space problem the next step is to change to the installed activities directory $ cd /home/olpc/Activities $ ls this will list the activities installed there $ du -sh * will take a few seconds, and will list them with their size. So pick a candidate to delete and do _with a lot of care_ $ rm -fr MyFooActivity.activity repeat the above action with every activity you want to remove. Then restart. cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
