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    Help - N900 wont start after replacing the /bin/busybox

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

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

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    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

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    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

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    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 ?

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    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.

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    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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