>> I may have caused that by (at that first >> boot) making some sort of change that worked with f7 but not with f9 > > That seems likely, but the olpc-update system should ensure that > you've got a clean system (no extra RPMs) when you revert. I would > hope that even if X doesn't start (especially if X doesn't start) you > can still get a console and/or use alt-boot (hold down 'O' at boot) to > fix things. That's the whole point, after all.
Close, but no cigar. The first time (after X did not start) I booted with 'O'. The previously-running version came up, but without Journal or any Activities. I looked everywhere (/var/log, /home/olpc/.sugar/default/logs, etc.) for a clue as to how come -- but found no "footprints" anywhere. And could not start anything meaningful from the text console - kept getting messages like "no display". To be able to continue, did a nand reflash. And that wiped having something for 'O' to load. Don't remember what all customizations I had tried to apply to f9, that could have screwed up X starting. > http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7357 and > http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7348 looks like the two biggest blockers > to more people trying joyride right now. To me they're not. If I can bypass 7357 with 'check', that's good enough for me. And I actually LIKE 7348 -- I normally do not use the Journal to access removable storage devices, so having no Journal icon is no problem for me. In fact, I wrote http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6584 to complain about the Journal scanning removable storage devices for their content; that ticket has now been closed with this notation about removable storage devices: "USB sticks will stop being available from the journal, instead being accessible in a simpler view in the shell". I am perfectly willing to do outside-of-Journal mounts. If I remember correctly (things were not going right), when in Joyride 2089 I plugged an USB stick directly into the XO, nothing of any note happened. In particular, the drivers did not create (recognize?) a /dev DEVICE that I could manually use in a 'mount' command. mikus p.s. IIRC, the time I tried plugging my USB hard drive directly into the XO (Joyride 2089, Q2D16), OFW complained mightily about partition-type being Linux on a DOS or something device. [OFW in f9 was not able to access that hard drive - telling me 'Can't open disk label package'. OFW in f7 has no problem, even though it's the same firmware !] _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
