sowwhatyoureap | # 1731 | 2014-12-27, 16:54 | Report

Good to know, but would've been even better to know a few pages back so that I'd went with apt-get upgrade instead. Luckily my system seems to have survived the ordeal ;-)

By the way, on the subject of CSSU, I wonder if it's okay to report a minor bug/feature (unsure which you would call it) in this thread? Since I've had my N900 (2010), I've used the built-in dictionary system but have noticed that, in certain cases, it incorrectly stores new words/entries. One example is with right parenthesis, ")", where it would store e.g. "foo)" instead of "foo". This can of course be avoided by putting a space in between, e.g. "foo )" would only store "foo", but it's a bit of a hassle. IIRC, there's a few other cases ("/" if I'm not mistaken). As I said, the issue has been around since the beginning of N900 so I'm unsure if it's really to be regarded as a CSSU bug per se.

Mara | # 1732 | 2014-12-27, 18:08 | Report

In my N900 the mount | grep MyDocs show the same except the attributes in brackets show only (rw).

The earlier indication that I was able to change the file owner and group to user/users was incorrect: When I try to do that I get error message "Operation not permitted". (Yes, I'm root at that time.) When I said it was working was when I unmounted the MyDocs and tried changing the MyDocs mountpoint (?) at /home/user/. (When mmcblk0P1 is not mounted the above mountpoint is empty.) Once mounted, the MyDocs gets populated with files but without user write access...

hxka | # 1733 | 2014-12-27, 20:07 | Report

IIRC in N900 /etc/mtab (what `mount` lists) is not a symlink to /proc/mounts and can be unreliable. Specifically, when kernel notices the corruption of fs and remounts it read-only, /etc/mtab will not be modified.

alexporta | # 1734 | 2014-12-28, 00:07 | Report

updated and ALL working very well

good work as usual!!

Mara | # 1735 | 2014-12-28, 17:19 | Report

Still not being able to resolve the issue.

So far I have tried running fsck and disk check from Windows as removable drive several times without finding any errors.

When MyDocs is mounted as removable drive I can access (and delete) files from WIndows computer without issues.

In the /proc/mounts I have this:
/dev/mmcblk0p1 /home/user/MyDocs vfat rw,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437, iocharset=iso8859-1,errors=remount-ro 0 0

Wondering if these are correct?

I was thinking of wiping the MyDocs clean by flashing emmc image but I'd also lose the opts, and all the applcations, thus requiring a complete reflash of the device including the fiasco image and reinstall all my apps. Am I correct?

EDIT: I tried manually mounting MyDocs using umask=0000 and fmask=0000 options and now I have write access to MyDocs!!! So the proc/mounts file having the 0022 masks blocked the write access when auto-mounting the file system. Now the question is that why had it changed to 0022 and how do I fix it? (Manually editing the mounts file doesn't work, I can't save it.) The masks must be defined in some other configuration file?

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Last edited by Mara; 2014-12-28 at 18:02. Reason: Found something

Estel | # 1736 | 2014-12-28, 19:20 | Report

There is a new config file in CSSU, that define mounting opts (and MyDocs, and SD) options. I don't remember where it is, as I've ditched this mechanism in my personal setup, but it must be "somewhere" in documentation - maybe someone stupid ended up being written there (or double-written, or whatsnot)?

/Estel

peterleinchen | # 1737 | 2014-12-28, 20:46 | Report

pali, but I do have gnu-coreutils and other gnu packages installed? Okay together with busybox-power.
Could you elaborate that a bit more, please?

For sure I would never ever do a dist(/deselect)-upgrade...

Mara | # 1738 | 2014-12-31, 15:21 | Report

I have been looking around the config files etc. to see if I can pinpoint where the issue is. So far no success.

In the etc/fstab I have /dev/mmcblk0p1 /home/user/MyDocs vfat defaults 0 2

The fstab is generated by the script etc/event.d/rcS-late. I looked into this script and didn't notice anything unusual there.

The config file for user's filesystems seems to be the etc/default/mount-opts. I have there lines for "home-opts=" which I don't think applies for MyDocs case. The second line says: fat-opts="noauto,nodev,noexec,nosuid,noatime,nodiratim e,utf8,uid=29999,shortname=mixed, dmask=000,fmask=0133,rodir". I did try changing the fmask to 000 and rodir to rwdir, after which I mounted MyDocs, but it did not help. (Then I changed them back to original.)

There is another config file /etc/default/mount-opts.dpkg-dist, but there I have pretty much the same options except the fmask=0000, which should work fine?

The file etc/profile file I have line "umask 022" but when I changed it to "umask 000" it did not fix the problem. (Then I changed it back.)

The simplest workaround at this point is to umount /dev/mmcblk0p1 and then remount it using this command:
mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 -o dmask=000,fmask=000

In other words the mount command finds the all the correct default options from somewhere. It only needs manual overrides for dmask and fmask values.

Maybe this gives enough details for someone with detailed file system experience to pinpoint where the issue might be?

EDIT: Before someone points out the space before the last "e" in "nodiratime", it seems to be created by this forum: In post edit mode the space doesn't exists.

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Estel | # 1739 | 2014-12-31, 21:10 | Report

Yes, this is the file I was talking about. If editing it doesn't help, I don't have a freakin' idea what is going on. It seems that on your system, something overrides those values no matter what, and AFAIK you've checked everything that could do it, humanly possible. I really would like to help you (I'm following your issue since start), but nothing more than xkcd's "your computer is literally haunted" comes to my mind at this point

sLumPia | # 1740 | 2015-01-01, 05:57 | Report

I can't install mp-fremantle-community-pr because it depend on nokiamaps.
Where can I get the nokiamaps-navigation-provider_0.200-2+0m5_armel.deb file?