N800 locking up with Diablo
 

Hello,
I recently flashed my N800 with Diablo. At first everything was fine but after a few days, the tablet stated to lock up. When I start an aplication, the tablet would lock for a minute or so and start again. An app frame would come on, the tablet would lock again, etc. This just go on until I reboot the tablet. Once I reboot the tablet it would run for a couple days and it would start again.

Anyone suggestions?

Denny

Re: N800 locking up with Diablo
 

try disabling Virtual Memory and re-enabling it? A frequent cause of the behavior you described is if the Swap file used for VM is corrupted. If it's feasible, after you disabled VM, reformat the internal SD card (used for VM) - maybe the file system was corrupted.

Re: N800 locking up with Diablo
 

Thanks. I thought I did that before; I will try that again.

Denny

Re: N800 locking up with Diablo
 

Similar kind of lock up happens to me too after installing Diablo on my N810.
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=21537

Its more of a screen lock up - sliding the lock/unlock button on the N810 resets the screen again for me. Dont have to reboot though.

Still dont have an answer for it ...

Re: N800 locking up with Diablo
 

Hello,
I unchecked and checked virtual memory couple days ago and the tablet worked fine until tonight. When I tried to use it tonight it started locking up again. I rebooted and everything is fine again. Could this be a really slow memory leak or something? It is very annoying.

Denny

Re: N800 locking up with Diablo
 

It's not happening for most of us, so the question is, what is unique about your setup? One thing unique is that we're not using the same sdhc cards as you are. So, maybe a card is going corrupt?

Re: N800 locking up with Diablo
 

If you have a good way to reproduce this or find out more about the reasons, please file a bug report in https://bugs.maemo.org . Thanks!

Re: N800 locking up with Diablo
 

Did you press the external memory card all the way in?

Initially i put the memory card and just forced the flap against it... and so experienced some lock ups... but now i use the stylus to click it in place and then cover the flap. my tablet never locked up again.

Re: N800 locking up with Diablo
 

Regarding reproducing the bug. It just happens being on every couple days. I tried running "ps -aux" and "top" but the tablet was so slow that I was not able to get much.

As for seating the memory card, I will check tonight when I get home.

Denny

Re: N800 locking up with Diablo
 

I am still trying to track down the cause of this. I ran "top" at the prompt and got this:

[H [JMem: 116652K used, 10152K free, 0K shrd, 140K buff
Load average: 0.77 0.39 0.14
[7m PID USER STATUS VSZ PPID %CPU %MEM COMMAND [0m
1775 user RW 1884 1772 3.2 1.4 top
1035 user SW< 50376 962 1.6 39.6 maemo-l
1625 user SW 67304 1269 0.0 52.9 browser
1478 user SW 51460 962 0.0 40.5 maemo-l
1269 user SW 40224 1 0.0 31.6 browser
[H [JMem: 116604K used, 10200K free, 0K shrd, 140K buff
Load average: 0.87 0.42 0.15
[7m PID USER STATUS VSZ PPID %CPU %MEM COMMAND [0m
1035 user SW< 50376 962 2.1 39.6 maemo-l
1771 user SW 34696 962 1.5 27.3 maemo-l
766 root SW< 12976 334 1.5 10.2 Xomap
1775 user RW 1960 1772 1.5 1.5 top
804 user SW< 9004 334 1.1 7.0 matchbo
992 user SW< 31200 962 0.7 24.5 maemo-l
334 root SW< 1108 1 0.1 0.8 dsme
812 root SW< 0 6 0.1 0.0 dsp/0
1625 user SW 67304 1269 0.0 52.9 browser
1478 user SW 51460 962 0.0 40.5 maemo-l
1269 user SW 40224 1 0.0 31.6 browser


Maemo-launcher takes lots of CPU cycles. I also noticed that Modest and the browser are also running. I do not use Modest, why is it in the background? Anyone have any ideas? Thanks.

Denny

Re: N800 locking up with Diablo
 

Thaks for that tip Sachin.

While my earlier card was locked in pretty good, I did change my card (moved to 8GB) and so carefully pushed it all the way in till it locked in.

Now strangely the lock-ups seem to be less (not gone).

Sometime, just sometimes while doing something, it will still lock up and freeze and I have to unlock with the lock slider (N810).
But definitely much lesser occurances now.