Opie hangs (OZ3.3.6-pre1)

[tunemx]

Hi there!

I have a serious problem. When I reboot my SL5500 (loaded with OZ3.3.6-pre1),  it is displaying the black screen with the dyno, and then \"Starting Opie...\", then after a few seconds \"openzaurus login:\" (although i did not press anything), and hangs... If I press anything after this point, it is displaying bogus characters.

What could went wrong? If I exit to the console, and start Opie by hand, it hangs too.  :evil:

Any help appreciated, thanks

[Mickeyl]

This is in 99% of the cases (read archives) a user error in renaming the flash files.
In the unlikely condition that it is not, then do /opt/QtPalmtop/bin/qpe and tell us what it tells you.

[tunemx]

/opt/QtPalmtop/bin/qpe started Opie, it works, but it is rotated (and spits out info to the display)

Opie still won\'t startup from a normal boot.
It cannot be a flash renaming problem, I already used this ROM for a week, and everything was OK.

[lardman]

Mickeyl is the real expert here, but if you\'ve run out of ideas you might try the following.

\'/etc/init.d/opie start\' is the command which should start opie - look in this script and see whether you can work out what\'s going wrong.

You might also start syslogd before running this command, and then use logread (or logview, or something like that) to read what has been sent to it.


Si

[tunemx]

Mickeyl is the real expert here, but if you\'ve run out of ideas you might try the following.

\'/etc/init.d/opie start\' is the command which should start opie - look in this script and see whether you can work out what\'s going wrong.

You might also start syslogd before running this command, and then use logread (or logview, or something like that) to read what has been sent to it.


Si

Thanks I will try. Or re-flash everything if I fail.

 :oops:

[tunemx]

Too bad logread only returning messages after the last reboot... So if opie hangs, I have to reboot... See? Can\'t find out why it hung...

[lardman]

You could try running /etc/init.d.opie start over a network connection, then you should see stderr & stdout.

Or edit the opie script so everything gets written to a file, then look at the file after rebooting.


Si

[tunemx]

Thanks a lot, I am gonna try it...