Re: Have I fried my freerunner?

2011-03-08 Thread John O'Hagan


On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, Chuck Norris wrote:
 04.03.2011 06:27, John O'Hagan пишет:
  On Tue, 1 Mar 2011, Thomas HOCEDEZ wrote:
  On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 13:16:54 +
  
  John O'Hagan resea...@johnohagan.com wrote:
  Hi,
  
  After a couple of years of fairly trouble-free
  qtmoko-FR use, I used a cheap in-car charger on a
  recent trip. The charger died, and the FR itself
  began exhibiting a number of odd behaviours such
  as not coming back from suspend, indicating
  charging status when it was not charging,
  crashing, and after a couple of days, not booting
  into qtmoko at all.
  
  Instead, I get an error like debugfs dir creation
  failed -19, then a Debian login prompt.
  Unfortunately, I haven't been able to ssh into the
  FR to investigate, as it doesn't show up on my
  debian laptop as usbX or ethX, only as /dev/ACM0,
  so I'm stuck as to how to get the USB networking
  going.
  
  [...]
  
  Woo, don't smells good.
  But I would try to reflash it with QtMoko once again. or with 
a
  
  totally
  
  different distro such as Android. The secodn one has an
  
  installer that
  
  verbose the output of the flashing progress. This way, you 
can
  
  see if it
  
  fails to write on some clusters on the flash.
  
  Let us know the results !
  
  Thanks for your reply. I'm a little confused about what is 
going on
  in my FR. The fact that I'm getting a Debian login prompt 
means it
  is actually booting, right? So the problem must be in 
subsequent
  stages of initialising Qtopia?
  
  Because it's not showing up as /dev/ethX or /devusbX as I
  mentioned, I haven't been able to re-flash it or even back it 
up
  with neotool, which doesn't find the device. To be honest it's
  been a long time since I flashed it because I've been 
updating
  qtmoko using apt-get, so I may be doing it wrong. Any advice 
how
  to ssh into the freerunner in theses circumstances?


I needed to reflash both Qi and the rootfs to get a bootable 
phone, but to no avail: although the reflashing went fine, the FR 
will no longer charge, although the battery indicator showed 
charging status. Both my batteries are now dead.

Looks like my poor FR took quite a beating from that cheap 
charger.

Any advice how to diagnose/repair this?

Thanks.


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Re: Have I fried my freerunner?

2011-03-03 Thread John O'Hagan
On Tue, 1 Mar 2011, Thomas HOCEDEZ wrote:
 On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 13:16:54 +
 
 John O'Hagan resea...@johnohagan.com wrote:
  Hi,
  
  After a couple of years of fairly trouble-free
  qtmoko-FR use, I used a cheap in-car charger on a
  recent trip. The charger died, and the FR itself
  began exhibiting a number of odd behaviours such
  as not coming back from suspend, indicating
  charging status when it was not charging,
  crashing, and after a couple of days, not booting
  into qtmoko at all.
  
  Instead, I get an error like debugfs dir creation
  failed -19, then a Debian login prompt.
  Unfortunately, I haven't been able to ssh into the
  FR to investigate, as it doesn't show up on my
  debian laptop as usbX or ethX, only as /dev/ACM0,
  so I'm stuck as to how to get the USB networking
  going.
 

[...]


 Woo, don't smells good.
 But I would try to reflash it with QtMoko once again. or with a 
totally
 different distro such as Android. The secodn one has an 
installer that
 verbose the output of the flashing progress. This way, you can 
see if it
 fails to write on some clusters on the flash.
 
 Let us know the results !

Thanks for your reply. I'm a little confused about what is going on 
in my FR. The fact that I'm getting a Debian login prompt means it 
is actually booting, right? So the problem must be in subsequent 
stages of initialising Qtopia? 

Because it's not showing up as /dev/ethX or /devusbX as I 
mentioned, I haven't been able to re-flash it or even back it up 
with neotool, which doesn't find the device. To be honest it's 
been a long time since I flashed it because I've been updating 
qtmoko using apt-get, so I may be doing it wrong. Any advice how 
to ssh into the freerunner in theses circumstances?

Regards,

 John

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Have I fried my freerunner?

2011-03-01 Thread John O'Hagan
Hi,

After a couple of years of fairly trouble-free 
qtmoko-FR use, I used a cheap in-car charger on a 
recent trip. The charger died, and the FR itself 
began exhibiting a number of odd behaviours such 
as not coming back from suspend, indicating 
charging status when it was not charging, 
crashing, and after a couple of days, not booting 
into qtmoko at all.

Instead, I get an error like debugfs dir creation 
failed -19, then a Debian login prompt. 
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to ssh into the 
FR to investigate, as it doesn't show up on my 
debian laptop as usbX or ethX, only as /dev/ACM0, 
so I'm stuck as to how to get the USB networking 
going.

Any help appreciated.

John

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