Hi, What you are describing there seems to be a manifestation of a known bug: during the upgrade process, X itself is upgraded and the X server is killed. But since the terminal runs on an X server too, it also gets killed, preventing any further progress of the upgrade too.
See this page: https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Nemo/Updating The "known issues" and "updating via command like" chapters are what you're looking for. Cheers, Timur On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Chris Mailer <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello, > > I played a bit more with the phone and eventually ssh'ed into the phone to > check the log file for XDM. > This is what is says: > [ 280.961] (EE) ioctl EVIOCGNAME failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device > [ 280.992] (EE) PreInit returned 8 for "TSC2005 touchscreen" > > Obviously, something is going wrong with the X-window configuration, but I > couldn't find any .rpmsave or .rpmnew files which would explain this > behavior, nor wasn't I able to find a solution through google. > Since this behaviour is reproduceable (recent N900 meego relase on sd > card, zypper refresh, zypper update) I hardly doubt I'm the only one > running into trouble and I would really be happy if anyone could point me > to a solution. > Thanks, > > Chris > > > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 8:29 PM, letters.random13 < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> i have regularly had the same problems: a direct install works >> (mostly...now...), but an update (i use console, zypper refresh; zypper >> update) may or may not complete successfully, but subsequent reboot mostly >> never succeeds; no clear indication why not. latest failed update attempt >> was with >> nemo-handset-armv7hl-n900-0.20120920.1.NEMO.2012-10-07.1-mmcblk0p.raw.bz2 >> (initial install works ok). >> i don't think those console msgs are directly related, but i haven't >> tried to recover dmesg to see what happened. >> to minimize frustration, i just do a clean install of a recent release; >> then select updates sparingly, if at all. >> >> >> >> On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Chris Mailer < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello, I installed the Nemo October release on my N900 SDcard). >>> Booting via uboot works fine after installation. Once the device came >>> up, I noticed Nemo was really slow, even after reboot. I therefore >>> decided to check for updates, and after refreshing cache there were >>> 237 updates applicable. >>> I run the update until it said "finished". >>> I noticed most of the icons had changed, but the programs wouldn't >>> start any longer - and I decided to reboot the Phone. However, the >>> Phone seems to hang after reboot now, with messages like: "hci_h4p FW >>> error" and i2c omap controller timed out". >>> While I cut mount the Fat32 part of the MMC in Maemo that did but work >>> for the ext4-part. The Fat32 part looks ok, though. >>> Do I need to install the power kernel, or what can I do to resurrect >>> my Nemo-release? >>> Thank you in advance, >>> Chris >>> >>> >>> >> >
