rebhana | # 2071 | 2011-02-17, 19:10 | Report

This problem seems to have arisen with PR1.3, see also earlier in this thread. Qole said that with power-kernel the problem again disappears. At any rate, make backups of your image before doing additional installs or upgrades!

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DrSteve | # 2072 | 2011-02-17, 19:53 | Report

Thank you; sorry I had missed the earlier discussion. Not quite ready for power kernel.

leetnoob | # 2073 | 2011-02-17, 20:11 | Report

interesting. i do have a power kernel installed but it's v46 with the bleeding edge network drivers which based off a stock power kernel. i had this problem before the power kernel and it's the same now. if you have a non bleeding edge power kernel, let me know if you can install evolution , and if you can i'll see if there's some difference between the 2 kernels. but i'm not sure that the power kernel fixes this from my experience..

leetnoob | # 2074 | 2011-02-17, 20:22 | Report

don't know if qole is listening, but i seem to remember going through his scripts that the debian partition wasn't mounted in such a way that the write cache was disabled. is there any downside to mounting it write cache disabled? in any case i might temporaily mount it write cache disabled (sync? or something) and see if i can install stuff. will report back in a few days, unless qole jumps in advising me that i'm in danger of bricking my phone.

rebhana | # 2075 | 2011-02-17, 20:23 | Report

I don't have power kernel running. My solution was to make backups and to install in smaller pieces when I run into the reboot problem.

DrSteve | # 2076 | 2011-02-17, 21:14 | Report

What's the best backup solution? rsync? I think sulu had recommended that earlier (see, I do read this thread).

kolos | # 2077 | 2011-02-17, 21:58 | Report

I experience the same problem as leetnoob.

I have power kernel 46 and v3d and if I try to upgrade Gimp or OpenOffice it reboots the phone, corrupts image file and makes MyDocs read-only. Same result is with stock and power kernel 42 and also with image v3e.
Obviously this has something to do with PR1.3, because when I had PR1.2, I could upgrade both applications without any issue.

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mscion | # 2078 | 2011-02-17, 22:13 | Report

Hi, Not sure if this is retated to your issue but I have not had a problem with corrupted files or the phone rebooting since I have carefully kept track of memory usage and religiously doing apt-get clean when ever I install or update. I just upgraded OO from sid yesterday with no problem using synaptic.

leetnoob | # 2079 | 2011-02-17, 22:15 | Report

i modified qmount so all the mount commands had the 'sync' option to disable write caching and it made no difference. easy debian is now broken as far as i can see. well, it's ok so long as you just want to install small trivial apps, but as far as installing anything useful, forget it.

leetnoob | # 2080 | 2011-02-17, 22:19 | Report

well, if youre able to act as your own dependency/package manager then youre a lot more clever than me, but that aint saying much..

man, i'm really annoyed about this. i'm off to sulk. easy debian is BROKEN.