770 unusable

[revwillie]

Well, I must have screwed something up. My 770 locks up all the time now. Sometimes it reboots itself. It's mostly unresponsive. The root filesystem looks like it's full if I can believe what the system monitor plugin applet is displaying. Of course, the file manager app shows me nothing useful about cleaning up the file system. The application manager, If I can get it to run, only shows a few apps, and in total, they might be 10 megs at the most. I uninstalled most everything. I've somehow filled up 128 with something. I tried xterm, but I don't know where in the file system to look.

I used to run linux on a second pc a few years ago (not Debian, though), but I can barely remember basic shell commands and I've already dug out my running linux and linux in a nutshell books. I just don't have the time these days to RTFM....

So unless I can figure out what else to do, I'll probably re flash it this weekend. No Maemo Mapper for the next few days :(

[nspeer]

I'm having the exact same problem as of today while using Maemo Mapper. Can't get anything to work now!

[revwillie]

I'm not completely sure what happened to my 770, but a re-flash fixed it.

I think at some point, if the root filesystem grows too big, the whole OS comes to a grinding halt. It may be just too many installed apps or maybe an uninstalled app that left files behind. After my reflash, I only installed the essentials (mapper included) and I'm trying to keep the system lean until I can try booting off a 2gb memory card some time in the future.

I think this is what a few 770 veterans have referred to when they talk about limited memory on the device. The workaround seems to be the card boot hack. You get a real linux swap file, real linux file system and then you can install more goodies.