N900, first casualty: need doctor
 

With just the Nokia standard repositories enabled, I noticed that apt-get dist-upgrade showed a bunch of updates and, being my usual curious self, I immediately went ahead.

Unfortunately, this resulted in the removal of most of the important packages and now the device simply won't boot anymore.

I had a look around and only found flasher 3.5 but no firmware file. Question is, how do I recover the device?

Re: N900, first casualty: need doctor
 

I think you should ask Nokia. Because the N900 is not out yet, they probably don't have the firmware out either!

Re: N900, first casualty: need doctor
 

Mmmm this seems to show Nokia isn't quite ready to ship these devices yet as the backend infrastructure is not properly tested/complete yet

Re: N900, first casualty: need doctor
 

If you are at the summit why not holla Peter?

Re: N900, first casualty: need doctor
 

Yes, every user runs "apt-get dist-upgrade" upon seeing an update instead of using the lovely Update notifier and the Update view in the Application manager. :rolleyes:

(Not to mention: You need to have a means of becoming root to run apt-get, and Nokia don't give this out of the box.)

Re: N900, first casualty: need doctor
 

hmm, registered just so say: LOL :D

Re: N900, first casualty: need doctor
 

The type of buyer of the N900 is the type is the type to snoop around. I thought the phone is completely open as its sold as a mobile "computer", why doesn't Nokia give the root password?

Re: N900, first casualty: need doctor
 

I wouldn't say the type of buyer for the n900 is the type to snoop around. Maybe most of us here that are coming from the internet tablets, but not the new buyers. Maybe symbian users would also be interested in tinkering (not familar with the platform).

Edit: Fixed my post since it didn't make sense.

Re: N900, first casualty: need doctor
 

you CAN login as root, but you aren't by default.
As it is in (all) linux distro's.
As it should be :)

Re: N900, first casualty: need doctor
 

Well that's not true for me at least. I'm not moving across from one smartphone to another, I'm moving from one Linux system to another. I'm only interested in the N900 because it's a (fairly) open Linux machine, and from some of the coverage and commenting on Linux news sites I doubt I'm the only one.

Edit: In any case, both having the phone die on package updates, and having apt behave differently to the GUI updater, are pretty clearly bugs.