Re: [Debian] apt-get upgrade made the FR die...

2008-11-27 Thread jidanni
JB> do you have FAT as your /boot partition? It turned out that that is a JB> bad idea when managing the kernel with dpkg. You can either JB> * Reformat it as ext2, adjust /etc/fstab, adjust uBoot env and JB> re-install kernel package JB> * Remove the kernel package and manually download and inst

Re: [Debian] apt-get upgrade made the FR die {FIXED}

2008-11-26 Thread Paul
It turned out to be quite simple in the end. Flashed QT on the FR, booted that, and followed Marian's tips on installing the mwester kernel from a while back. Then reinstalled fso-gta02 and things were fine again :-) Paul -- Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest

Re: [Debian] apt-get upgrade made the FR die...

2008-11-24 Thread Paul
Hello arne > am i right in assuming that you > a) are running debian from sd card and > b) have /boot as separate fat partition Looks like I have to go this way. The info on the Debian page to set the 1st partition of the SD to EXT2 and updating uBoot requires some fso-util packages on the local

Re: [Debian] apt-get upgrade made the FR die...

2008-11-23 Thread Paul
Thanks, everyone, for the tips. I'll look into changing the FAT partition to EXT2, as that seems to be the big problem-maker. Paul -- Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too. -Thomas Fuller http://www.nlpagan.net Running on Mandriva Linux 2008 and Ubuntu 8.10 __

Re: [Debian] apt-get upgrade made the FR die...

2008-11-23 Thread arne anka
> Would someone know a nice way to get the FR running again? am i right in assuming that you a) are running debian from sd card and b) have /boot as separate fat partition ? if so, unmount /boot, run apt-get -f install this should fix any half installed packages afterwards copy the files in /boot

Re: [Debian] apt-get upgrade made the FR die...

2008-11-23 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Sonntag, den 23.11.2008, 11:38 +0100 schrieb Paul: > I must admit I had just started the upgrade command and went off to do > different things... > > What I recall seeing at the end was the mention of a problem making a > backup link to uImage.bin after which the upgrade exited with code

Re: [Debian] apt-get upgrade made the FR die...

2008-11-23 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/11/23 Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I must admit I had just started the upgrade command and went off to do > different things... I've seen this too. But in my case I was OK again after a reboot. Neil ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@

Re: [Debian] apt-get upgrade made the FR die...

2008-11-23 Thread Paul
Michele Renda wrote: > It happent to me too, some months ago. > > It is possible to solve the problem in different ways, > you can try to boot with a "non debian" image, download the install.sh > script, and do only > the stages: mount, kernel (in this way it reinstall only the kernel) > > I don't

Re: [Debian] apt-get upgrade made the FR die...

2008-11-23 Thread Michele Renda
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It happent to me too, some months ago. It is possible to solve the problem in different ways, you can try to boot with a "non debian" image, download the install.sh script, and do only the stages: mount, kernel (in this way it reinstall only the kern

[Debian] apt-get upgrade made the FR die...

2008-11-23 Thread Paul
I must admit I had just started the upgrade command and went off to do different things... What I recall seeing at the end was the mention of a problem making a backup link to uImage.bin after which the upgrade exited with code 1. The SSH session was still fine, the GUI on the FR itself had die