SSU - 5.2008.43-7 shows 'broken' status after install
 

on my n810 I've tried updating with the new featured version 5.2008.43-7 and everything seems to run smooth; however, after rebooting the 'OS2008 Feature upgrade' is shown in both the 'installed applications' and 'check for updates' section (application manager) :(

The details tab gives me this:

Status : Broken but updateable
Category: system
Installed version: 1:5.2008.43-7
Available version: 1:5.2008.43-7
Download size: 0kb

doing a reinstall gives me an 'unable to update' error. I also tried an 'apt-get -f install' from x-term. still failing with the following error taken from the log:

# -------------------------
Upgrading osso-software-version-rx44 1:5.2008.43-7 to 1:5.2008.43-7
Setting up mce (1.7.23) ...
Starting Mode Controller Entity: mceinvoke-rc.d: initscript mce, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing mce (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of osso-software-version-rx44:
osso-software-version-rx44 depends on mce (= 1.7.23); however:
Package mce is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing osso-software-version-rx44 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
mce
osso-software-version-rx44
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
# -------------------------

I even followed the suggestions made in this tread but with no success; is there anything that will prevent me from reflashing? please give me some advice...

Re: SSU - 5.2008.43-7 shows 'broken' status after install
 

Same problem here.

Re: SSU - 5.2008.43-7 shows 'broken' status after install
 

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...806#post250806

bun

Re: SSU - 5.2008.43-7 shows 'broken' status after install
 

thanks bun, I appreciate your help but actually what questions me is how to fix this issue (or even try to understand what went wrong) and recover my nit without reflashing; I'd really like to take advantage of the 'seamless update' :) ...if there's no easy solution I'll definitely follow your guide;

Re: SSU - 5.2008.43-7 shows 'broken' status after install
 

please file a bug in http://bugs.maemo.org with all this info

Re: SSU - 5.2008.43-7 shows 'broken' status after install
 

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...&highlight=apt

sudo gainroot
touch /var/lib/dpkg/available

then:
apt-get update
or:
apt-get -f install

Re: SSU - 5.2008.43-7 shows 'broken' status after install
 

thanks again for all your help; unfortunately the steps mentioned earlier by Ropesend didn't work out successfully. as a result I followed the suggestion from qgil and created a new bug report @ https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3943.

so let's wait if anything can be done; in the meantime still hoping for some smart ideas helping me to come over this issue... ;)

Re: SSU - 5.2008.43-7 shows 'broken' status after install
 

What was the error with ropesend's instructions?

Could you try this?
1) get root
2) as root run "/etc/init.d/mce restart" and if it doesn't show any error:
3) dpkg --configure -a

Re: SSU - 5.2008.43-7 shows 'broken' status after install
 

I'm sorry for not giving enough information, so here's the detailed output from my recent attempts...

1) 'touch /var/lib/dpkg/available' -> success :p
2) 'apt-get update' -> shows this:
('apt-get -f install' -> see 1st post)

2) ->
3) ->
any idea? many thanks in advance...

Re: SSU - 5.2008.43-7 shows 'broken' status after install
 

If you are using a non-busybox "ls" it will break. ("ls -Q" in an xterm - if it lists files with quotes, things will break badly - if it gives a usage message, it should be OK.).

Re: SSU - 5.2008.43-7 shows 'broken' status after install
 

Also see https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3943#c2 for a workaround:

"You can workaround this by stopping mce, and then completing the update.

# /etc/init.d/mce stop
# dpkg --configure -a

and maybe

# apt-get -f install

but you know that."

Re: SSU - 5.2008.43-7 shows 'broken' status after install
 

Ah yeah: And please answer Marius' questions in that bug report so we can track this down. :-)

Re: SSU - 5.2008.43-7 shows 'broken' status after install
 

that finally did the trick :p
...thank you all for your precious help and especially Marius (see details on bug report link) for pointing out the details and solution to my problem.

Re: SSU - 5.2008.43-7 shows 'broken' status after install
 

Bug reports 3938 and 3948 are "duplicates". Do you have a GNU ls somewhere on the path? What happens if you type "ls -Q" (-Q is invalid in the provided busybox version of ls).

Re: SSU - 5.2008.43-7 shows 'broken' status after install
 

"ls -Q" is not supported and returns "ls: invalid option -- Q" ...

Re: SSU - 5.2008.43-7 shows 'broken' status after install
 

Same mess when I tried to upgrade to 36-5 on dual boot. What a disaster! Luckily I had a backup sdhc with entire setup but even then I had to go into flash side and reinstall Fanoush boot because it kept looping to start every time I tried booting under mmc1. Worst upgrade yet. Yikes!! Hildon-app-manager, hildon-desktop, dbus-scripts,icd2, bluez-utilitls, etc... are all a mess! I can't upgrade any of it even on my backup! Did Taliban infiltrate your upgrade servers. Stopping mce helped but what a mess I've got. Any ideas? Please don't suggest re-flashing, it would take weeks to re-install everything. TIA

Re: SSU - 5.2008.43-7 shows 'broken' status after install
 

This took me only couple hours, from beginning to finish, 33 progs installed, http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=25673. If you have NOT messed it up, do a backup, reflash, restore, done in less than 2 hrs, it restore ALL your settings, including wifi and passwords. If you already messed up, even better, now it is a good time to do pick and choose what progs you really want.

Here is the complete package, upgrade/bootmenu/clone, http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=25777

bun

Re: SSU - 5.2008.43-7 shows 'broken' status after install
 

Love you Bun but I've got 6 partitions between two 32gb sdhc cards with over 200 apps, my own custom menu system, Debian, KDE, Android, game ports, bluetooth custom config with my office equipment, wifi hacking tools, hidden encryption partitions, etc.... It would take weeks to get my system back to where it is now. That is why I made a mirror backup card. All apps and partitions installed before upgrade fiasco are working on my backup card I just can't update anything. I would like to figure out why when server breaks connection while upgrading the entire upgrade permanently trashes your existing setup only for upgrading. There should be a way to go in and fix each component that got trashed, ex: hildon app manager, hildon desktop,icd2, dbus-scripts, etc...

Your writeup is amazing I've used it in the past.

This time I want to get help in figuring a way to work around this if it happens again. I need to understand before I can figure out solution.
I need the A-Team of this community to help figure this one out that includes you Bun. TIA

Re: SSU - 5.2008.43-7 shows 'broken' status after install
 

After following the mce workaround, I can't shutdown or reboot. I tried to use Advanced Power and the hardware power button. Nothing. I have just rebooted using "reboot" from cli, but did anyone else have this problem?

Re: SSU - 5.2008.43-7 shows 'broken' status after install
 

Thanks for that. I've been busy for a while so just got around to figuring out how to fix my N810 update. I also had the same problem with all of mediaplayer-daemon. libmediaplayer0, mce & metalayer-crawler0 (in that order). Only by shutting all of them down was I able to properly configure them, as well as osso-software-version-rx44. TX

Re: SSU - 5.2008.43-7 shows 'broken' status after install
 

Can you expand on this? How do I know if I have these other problems you experienced? I'm especially concerned about the osso-software-version, since that is what will enable future updates to be pushed through to my NIT, right?

Re: SSU - 5.2008.43-7 shows 'broken' status after install
 

Fortunately I had saved my log, so I can show you exactly the errors I experienced ;) (by log I mean under Tools, Log in the the Application manager. Take a look after you attempt the update)
Each of the packages couldn't update because of the previous one. By shutting off all of them I was able to complete the final update of osso-software-version-rx44.

Afterwards I turned them all back on & rebooted.
HTH

Re: SSU - 5.2008.43-7 shows 'broken' status after install
 

Thanks for that.

I suppose I'm not helping myself by reinstalling sliderotate kernel after updating OS. This seems to send 43-7 back into "broken" status. Has anyone compiled a 43-7 kernel with rotation yet?

EDIT: Found my answer. Will have to wait until after the holidays.

Re: SSU - 5.2008.43-7 shows 'broken' status after install
 

If you are using a replacement for "ls", remove it. "ls -Q" from xterm should return a complaint message (needed for invoke-rc.d to run - notice how it is listed as the problem in the log output?). If it returns a list of quoted filenames, it will break the upgrade (and you should remove and reset ls so that it uses the busybox version).