Reflash help: Am I going crazy!?
 

OK, so let's start with some history. On Monday night I did a full backup of my rootfs (and more) with rsync. I know what I'm doing.

On Tuesday I edited some files on rootfs, again, no problems.

Today around noon I launch Iceweasel, N900 freezes hard, I have to pull the battery (for the second time ever). I reboot, rootfs is damaged and mounted as read only, but no problem since I have backups.

Just now, I reflash rootfs, install rootsh+ssh client+rsync and start a restore process from Monday night. It goes well, I restart. Everything looks flawless at first.

But as a test I try writing to rootfs.

rootfs is damaged again and mounted as read-only :eek: WHAT THE F@#$!?!?!?!?

What the hell could cause this!? I'm going to try the process again. The screen did flash an extra time on the first reboot after restoring as I unplugged the charger, maybe that's related.

Re: Reflash help: Am I going crazy!?
 

did you use the backupMenu?

Re: Reflash help: Am I going crazy!?
 

Nope, no backupmenu, just rsync (running as rot both on the local and remote device).

Re: Reflash help: Am I going crazy!?
 

then I don't know, if it caused by rsync then may be someone else can help you.
:) good luck and may god has mercy upon your N900.

Re: Reflash help: Am I going crazy!?
 

Try install sysklogd.. you might find some write errors.. also check the rsync backup so it is not restoring read-only files.

Re: Reflash help: Am I going crazy!?
 

OK something more freaky is going on here. I ran this exact command on tuesday, NOT proceeded by sudo gainroot:

rootsh echo "set nowrap" > /etc/nanorc

this gives a permission denied error. But this:

sudo gainroot
echo "set nowrap" > /etc/nanorc

works fine after a fresh reflash and installing rootsh. I didn't try that after the restore. What could cause this change in behavior?

Re: Reflash help: Am I going crazy!?
 

Hmm... what version of rootsh are you using? Try "dpkg -l rootsh" in terminal. If you use v1.8 then "rootsh" as a command does not work. Only "root" or "sudo gainroot" will give you root access.

Re: Reflash help: Am I going crazy!?
 

Right now it shows 1.5, but I'm in the middle of the restore process. But as recently as Tuesday I was using rootsh like a password-less sudo.

Re: Reflash help: Am I going crazy!?
 

Maybe the sudoers file did not get restored? Check /etc/sudoers.d/ if you have it there. But as you said.. something seams to be fishy. Have you checked your rsync backup?

Re: Reflash help: Am I going crazy!?
 

After a restore in /etc/sudoers.d/ I have no rootsh.sudoers file, it doesn't exist in the rsync backup either

I am still running rootsh 1.5 after the restore.

rootsh and sudo gainroot behavior is the same as outlined above - apart from that everything seems normal :confused:

Another command I tried on Tuesday was:

cd /etc/event.d
rootsh nano set-swaps-custom

Then I saved the file. I just tried this and it worked :confused:

Re: Reflash help: Am I going crazy!?
 

I don't know if the name are exactly rootsh.sudoers.. have not looked into v1.5 to much.. in my case i made a file called 99all.sudoers for sudo. I am using v1.8..

Re: Reflash help: Am I going crazy!?
 

Here's something else that sucks - since restoring I've lost at least 13MB of rootfs space :confused: going to check some rootfs optimizations I made in the past...

Re: Reflash help: Am I going crazy!?
 

OK I think the difference in rootfs space is caused by the files being de-sparsed by rsync...not a major issue, I still had over 53MB free and now have 63MB free since manually optifying some microB components.