Help - N900 wont start after replacing the /bin/busybox - maemo.org

bvaibhav | # 1 | 2011-12-26, 09:51 | Report

My N900 wont start after is replaced the /bin/busybox with the busybox-power standalone package.

michaaa62 | # 2 | 2011-12-26, 11:40 | Report

What do you mean by replacing??? Did you uninstall it?
Busybox-power does co-exist along busybox

Code:

[1|user@Nokia-N900|~]apt-cache policy busybox-power busybox
busybox-power:
  Installed: 1.19.3power3
  Candidate: 1.19.3power3
  Version table:
 *** 1.19.3power3 0
        500 http://repository.maemo.org fremantle/free Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.19.3power1 0
        500 http://repository.maemo.org fremantle-1.3/free Packages
        500 http://repository.maemo.org fremantle/free Packages
busybox:
  Installed: 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso30+0m5
  Candidate: 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso30+0m5
  Version table:
 *** 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso30+0m5 0
        500 https://downloads.maemo.nokia.com ./ Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Please clarify, from what you remember, done.
Did you make sure that not only the kernel got kind of corrupted, by reflashing just the kernel from a firmware image? http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_t...rt_topic.21.29

bvaibhav | # 3 | 2011-12-27, 06:05 | Report

Thanks for your reply. I got my phone restored by flashing the rootfs and the using the Backup menu app from extras-devel to restore the previously created backup.

Here's what i did that created the issue in first place.
1. cp /bin/busybox /home/user/MyDocs/busybox_backup
2. cp /home/user/MyDocs/busybox-power /bin

Last edited by bvaibhav; 2011-12-27 at 06:06. Reason: Typing error

eight | # 4 | 2011-12-27, 13:18 | Report

Why don't you use

apt-get install busybox-power ?

bvaibhav | # 5 | 2011-12-28, 03:55 | Report

Earlier I was getting error like package not found when I tried apt-get install busybox-power

Tried it again today and it got installed properly.

Thanks.

iDont | # 6 | 2011-12-28, 12:08 | Report

Originally Posted by bvaibhav View Post

Here's what i did that created the issue in first place.
1. cp /bin/busybox /home/user/MyDocs/busybox_backup
2. cp /home/user/MyDocs/busybox-power /bin

I see two problems with this approach:

MyDocs resides on a FAT32 formatted partition by default. You'll lose the correct permissions to execute binaries when you store them there. Overwriting a system binary with a non-executable binary will obviously cause pain.
You state that you copied "busybox-power" to "/bin". This itself cannot cause a reboot loop since you haven't replaced /bin/busybox at all (unless you meant to say that you had copied the binary to "/bin/busybox" instead).

Please be very careful when replacing system binaries yourself. You aren't the first one to get burned that way

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