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Title: Bus Error
Post by: niv on June 28, 2005, 01:37:17 pm

did lots of flashing the last week, now this:

after cold boot, I get:

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starting Opie...
Bus error

OpenZaurus 3.5.3 Collie tty1

collie login:

Is it dead?
how may I chk the memory?

Thanks,
Niv

Title: Bus Error
Post by: niv on June 28, 2005, 05:13:58 pm

I flashed back to 3.5.3
all loads up well

still wondering how to test ram

Title: Bus Error
Post by: tesla_cubed on June 28, 2005, 06:09:50 pm

Your problm is due to IPKG chewing up oz. I am not shure why but to avoid this anoince dont IPKG UPDATE. I had the same thing hapen to me when I first flashed to 3.5.3 it took me a reflashes to figuer out   what was causeing it  more can be found in this therd.

https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=12280 (https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=12280)

and in the opie upgrades thread thats sticked at the top

This happens form the command line or from the setings tab the only cure that I have found is to reflash [ good thing that oz never changes the boot loader ]

hope you get your Z working again

Title: Bus Error
Post by: niv on June 28, 2005, 06:12:31 pm

work fine after the reflash.
so many refrashs...

so I guess you recommend upgrading manualy?

Title: Bus Error
Post by: lardman on June 28, 2005, 06:15:37 pm

I'd not bother upgrading unless something doesn't work.

I would, however, make sure you do 'ipkg install ipkg' as the ipkg which shipped with 3.5.3 had issues. Ipkg will realise that it's already installed and upgrade itself.


Si

Title: Bus Error
Post by: niv on June 29, 2005, 03:32:47 am

Thanks lardman, sure needed to hear that.
Forgive me for the lack of knowladge, my zaurus is only a week old :-)
Pls be aware that th wiki instracts to care out an upgrade. I added a note on that at the wiki.
I also leared the hard way that I need to run ipkg-link after each install.
Now I changed my ipkg.conf so the SD appear first. so now the default instalation is to SD. must I still do ipkg-link?
what is ipkg-link any way (had no luck googling an answer :-(

Niv

Title: Bus Error
Post by: tesla_cubed on June 29, 2005, 11:21:13 am

Ipkg-link makes symlinks from /wherever/you/installed/it to /where/it/would/be/under/root. Without these it just sees whats installed to flash.

This also lets you have most or all of your apps on a cf or sd card, if you have to reflash and dont want to renstall everything you can do a ipkg-link mount /whever/you instaled/your/stuff, and it will symlink in all the stuff in that  dir.

Title: Bus Error
Post by: niv on June 29, 2005, 04:42:28 pm

ok dont yell at me. I reflashed, then wrote ipkg update ipkg
my mistake , should I reflash?
I guess I will wait for th bus error...?

Title: Bus Error
Post by: tesla_cubed on June 29, 2005, 05:13:27 pm

Sorry,   I didnt mean to seam upset at you it took me quite a while to figure out what exactly ipkg-link did, and I just found out that it would remount stuff on exernal media. Thought I might share that, as when I first got my Z was my first contact with linux as well so I went thrugh a great many reflashes learing how to config it. I was just trying to share a tip not show any anger or anything, I just frogot that somthing said seem diffrent when typed.    

Title: Bus Error
Post by: niv on June 29, 2005, 07:13:10 pm

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Sorry,   I didnt mean to seam upset at you it took me quite a while to figure out what exactly ipkg-link did, and I just found out that it would remount stuff on exernal media. Thought I might share that, as when I first got my Z was my first contact with linux as well so I went thrugh a great many reflashes learing how to config it. I was just trying to share a tip not show any anger or anything, I just frogot that somthing said seem diffrent when typed.   
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relax mate, I am cool
I just asked if in case I DID run update by mistake - I have to re - flash