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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / e2fsck for ext2 SD cards

« on: October 29, 2004, 09:13:42 pm »

I've been trying to work out the best place to put

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e2fsck -y /dev/mmcda1in my startup scripts. I think this is necessary as many problems seem to stem from cumulative errors on the SD card.

Various suggestions on the OpenEmbedded Wiki (OpenZaurusFineTuning, How to setup OpenZaurus with SD card as root filesystem) have also implied this, but there doesn't appear to be a definitive answer anywhere.

This proot script includes the check, but has the line commented out. Alternatively it could go somewhere in /etc/init.d/mountall.sh or even /etc/init.d/sd.

Any ideas?

The problem is that e2fsck isn't included in the default 3.5.1 ROM. That explains why the e2fsck line is commented in the "proot" script you talked about: it's supposed to be ran on a freshly flashed Zaurus.
You could install the e2fsprogs-e2fsck package and un-comment the e2fsck line in the script. Tell us if that works!

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Deals and Great Z Buys / 1GB SD card £58 Aria.co.uk

« on: October 23, 2004, 06:50:45 pm »

Now you mention it, it does look like a rebadged version of a SanDisk. Oh dear. Looks like I'm going for the Kingston 512 Mb SD disk instead. Thanks. To be fair, the site does allow for customer feedback and queries. So I enquired if it would survive a linux rather than a Fat format. But they didn't know.

Edit: Oh heck! Looks like the Kingstons have gone!

Well, will keep watching the link that started this post.

Kingston SD cards are crap. I sent back mine for service. I'll buy a Panasonic one instead!

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Accessories / sd card doom list

« on: October 23, 2004, 06:39:39 pm »

I tried that link you said was down,,,and it redirected me to the site hacking.the.cia

Don't do this from work if your company tracks the sites you hit...I'm probably on the "watch list" now.

I don't know if you're serious about that "watch list", but there're 2 hypothesis:
- you're paranoid
- there's a real problem about liberty in the country where you live

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / How do I sync in windows with OZ 3.5.1?

« on: October 23, 2004, 06:36:35 pm »

What is windows?
What is XP?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Freeswan ipsec.o OZ 3.5.1

« on: October 23, 2004, 06:15:24 pm »

You can use the OpenVPN binaries I put up on my website here:
http://undertow.2y.net/zaurus/

I use it great success on my laptop and Zaurus to a central linux box to secure my wireless.

I put both a statically compiled binary as well as a much smaller dynamically linked binary online.
Both are compressed with upx, so you need to decompress it before you can check the libs so
I've done that here:

OZ #ldd /tmp/openvpn
        libssl.so.0.9.7 => /DEBIAN/usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.7 (0x40023000)
        libcrypto.so.0.9.7 => /DEBIAN/usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7 (0x40057000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40149000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40250000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /DEBIAN/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x4025a000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

Ignore the /DEBIAN paths-- I have Debian running on my Z as well so I often just sym/hardlink apps from Debian to OZ to share the same binaries and config files.

FreeSwan/IPSec is the way to go. It's used in a lot of professional environnements.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Freeswan ipsec.o OZ 3.5.1

« on: October 22, 2004, 07:42:40 pm »

That's very interesting! I'll have a look at that in some weeks...

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Error while making opie-image

« on: October 08, 2004, 05:34:25 pm »

The problem came from the fact that I did not set a swap partition on my home computer. I thought 645Mo of RAM would always be sufficient, but I was wrong. I set up a swap partition, and the make process ran fine.
Thanks!

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Error while making opie-image

« on: October 07, 2004, 05:42:11 pm »

Hello,

I'm trying to compile my own openzaurus initrd.bin and zimage. I
followed instructions given in the oe_wiki:
http://www.openembedded.org/oe_wiki/index.php/RDay5500

However, when I type:
oemake opie-image
, the process is killed! Here's the last lines of the output:

DEBUG: bindir-libdir bindir-libdir.patch
NOTE: import patch
'/mnt/IBMLinux/src/packages/python/python-native-2.3.3/bindir-libdir.patch'
as 'bindir-libdir.patch'
DEBUG: cross-distutils cross-distutils.patch
NOTE: import patch
'/mnt/IBMLinux/src/packages/python/python-native-2.3.3/cross-distutils.patch'
as 'cross-distutils.patch'
NOTE: package python-native-2.3.3-r0: task do_patch completed
NOTE: package python-native-2.3.3-r0: task do_configure started
NOTE: package python-native-2.3.3-r0: task do_configure completed
NOTE: package python-native-2.3.3-r0: task do_compile started
Killed

I tried several times (each time, I deleted the tmp directory contents),
and I always got that "Killed" message. I NEVER cancelled the process.

What could be wrong?

Thanks for the help.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Anyone know where I can get OZ 3.2 rom to 5500 ?

« on: October 02, 2004, 05:50:20 pm »

Need a stable ROM for my 5500, OZ32 was great, but I can't find it now - can anyone help ?

You'll find what you need there:

http://www.oxstone.com/zaurus/z5500_old_feeds/

Please be patient, the server is in my home, and bandwith is only 512/128 kb...  

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / OZ 3.5.1 - Mount / on sd card?

« on: October 02, 2004, 05:47:06 pm »

I haven't switched to OZ 3.5.1 yet, but I have the same problem starting aqpkg. Everything works fine if I boot from internal flash. But as soon as I boot from my SD card aqpkg hangs while trying to read the configuration (at 28% on the progress bar). I've replaced the /proc directory with a symbolic link to /mnt/root/proc, but this didn't change anything.

awaldram: Could you give me some more insight on what the problem is and why setting the link should have fixed it?

Thanks,
Dirk

I installed OZ 3.5.1 on my SD card + SL5500. I did not noticed noticeable problems with aqpkg.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / oz 3.5.1 mis-flash

« on: September 29, 2004, 04:38:34 pm »

Are you SURE you put the lever back to normal operation?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / OZ 3.5.1 - Mount / on sd card?

« on: September 29, 2004, 03:59:44 pm »

Thanks for the information.  Would you mind sharing your script with me?  I followed the instructions, but perhaps missed a step or two.  Also - why do you think the SD cards are stressed being root?  All of the logging, etc goes on in the ramdisk in /var, is there that much reading/writing going on in the rootfs? 

Perhaps we could modify such things to give SD cards a longer life as root .  It really is more convenient than worrying about fitting into the x MB available in the Zaurus itself.

Thanks again,

~Abe

Files are available here:

http://www.oxstone.com/Z_move_root_to_sdcard/

I already read installing / on a SD card can destroy it. SD cards are really fragile. Trust me: it destroyed my 256Mb Kingston card. Anyway, I'll buy a Panasonic one in the next weeks, and I'll continue to install everything on the SD card.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Can't start datebook, addressbook...

« on: September 28, 2004, 05:12:25 pm »

Sounds like it might be the cause.

Try running the apps in question from the command line and see whether the lib is causing the problem.

Removing the libsqlite0 package was the origin of the problem. I just reinstalled that package and now all applications work fine. There's really a problem with the package manager I use (opie-aqpkg) or the package dependency description. I should have be warned about the possible problems removing that package could generate...

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / OZ 3.5.1 - Mount / on sd card?

« on: September 28, 2004, 03:48:25 pm »

I did it on my collie. It worked fine. I made a script to automate everything. Speed was ok.
However, it simply destroyed my SD card! It was a Kingston 256Mb. Installing / on a SD card really stresses the memory card. I returned mine (it's still guaranteed). I'll probably buy a Panasonic SD card, since it seems only Japanese-made cards and more specifically cards from that brand last more than a month used as /...

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Can't start datebook, addressbook...

« on: September 28, 2004, 03:34:22 pm »

Yesterday, my 3.5.1 OZ (opie image) worked fine. I removed libsqlite0 in order to gain a few kbytes on the / filesystem.
This morning, I had a bad surprise: it's now impossible to start some programs, such as: datebook, addressbook, today, todolist.
What's wrong? The error message is quite simple:
"Could not locate application <whatever>"

Should I reinstall libsqlite0? If removing it breaks other packages, I assume a message should have appeared?
That's quite annoying: I mainly use my Zaurus as a PDA, and I need those programs!