Pdaxii13 On Nand

[Antikx]

Since moving to 5.3.3 I too have been noticing more X freezeups after a resume. The previous version I was using, 5.3.2 or 5.3.1. (I can't remember which one, sorry), rarely had that problem.

[ArchiMark]

A few questions please....

1) I downloaded and installed the latest 'Sally, build 5.3.3 rev3' but when I boot up voice says that it's v.5.3.2?

I found out where it was being run from and found it pointed to this file: /home/root/welcome.txt
I recommend changing it to:
ArchiMark is king monkey!
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I'll bet you say that to all the monkeys!

 

[HoloVector]

I found out where it was being run from and found it pointed to this file: /home/root/welcome.txt
I recommend changing it to:
ArchiMark is king monkey!
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Nice Tip Antikx!

[HoloVector]

Since moving to 5.3.3 I too have been noticing more X freezeups after a resume. The previous version I was using, 5.3.2 or 5.3.1. (I can't remember which one, sorry), rarely had that problem.
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I wasn't seeing that with the original 5.3.3 or with what I'm stuck with at the moment.  See below.

I ipk upgraded my 5.3.3 after rev3 was announced.  That was a mistake since package list for Meanie's Custom feed seems to be unreadable.  That means that the upgrade was from the combined Beta3 feed only.  I ended up with a mutant distro.  My Firefox, GTK2, GPE PIM were "upgraded" for the worse.  

Most of the fonts reverted to 10 point both in the WM and the Apps.  I have fixed most of the fonts back to 14 point but, FireFox is stuck at 12 point  

FireFox got that god awful 80s fire icon.  Luckily, I had backed up that icon after I had that ugly icon show up on my 1000 a few weeks ago.  FireFox also now refuses to automatically login me in on the oesf forums.  Auto-login works fine with tyrannozaurus.

The GPE PIMs are just brain damaged now.  GPE Contacts refuses to import a CSV contact dump.  GPE Announce is stuck in a loop and notifies me of the same appointments over and over everytime I resume.  Dismissing does not help.  I also can't get into GPE Calendar because it locks up on startup with a lovely blank window so, I can't delete that offending appointments.  I have to go into the Process Manager and play Whack-A-Mole with all the instances of GPE Calendar and GPE Announce that are running.  The offending processes respawn a few times with GPE Announce looping the notifications again.  If I can't fix this soon I'm going to have ipkg remove all the GPE PIMs because it does not look good in a meeting when your Z goes psycho everytime you resume it.    

In case you are wondering why I did an ipkg upgrade.  Besides wanting to get Meanie's rev3 fixes (especially the TimeZone ones).  I was having trouble with GPE Announce not waking up my Z for alarms and I was hoping that an upgrade would fix that.  Boy, was I ever wrong!  

[Antikx]

Sounds like you have a FrankenROM.
I guess you'll have to reflash, hey? Sorry dude.
I always see reflashing as a way to get better organized and document what I do post-install, but you seem like you're more organized then me so maybe this is just a pain-in-the-butt for you.

[HoloVector]

Sounds like you have a FrankenROM.
I guess you'll have to reflash, hey? Sorry dude.
I always see reflashing as a way to get better organized and document what I do post-install, but you seem like you're more organized then me so maybe this is just a pain-in-the-butt for you.
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I'm hoping I can avoid a reflash right now so, pain-in-the-butt is right term.  My Microdrive in my 3200 has about 3GB of ScummVM data files on it.  I'm not looking forward to recopying that over. Both of my Zs are in a bit of state.  

The 1000 is in guinea pig mode right now (I've been experimenting with themes and PIMs on it) and it is plenty broke.  I was planning on resflashing it first but, I just have to find the time.

[Drake01]

Since moving to 5.3.3 I too have been noticing more X freezeups after a resume. The previous version I was using, 5.3.2 or 5.3.1. (I can't remember which one, sorry), rarely had that problem.
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Out of curiosity, just how does X "freeze" upon resuming?  Does X start and then freeze after the screen is painted?  Or does it just remain dark?  If the latter, have you waited a few minutes to see if it does eventually wake?

I'm asking because I installed the full app package to my SD card.  I noticed that my Z didn't seem to want to wake from resume, but then I decided to just let it sit for a while.  Eventually (might have been close to ten minutes later) it did start.  I'm pretty sure that the problem is that apm was ejecting the SD card upon suspend.  When resuming, it would remount the SD card and then run some process that seems to update all the links for all the packages installed to SD.  This really takes a while if you have everything installed, like I did.

My solution was to go into /etc/apm/suspend.d and /etc/apm/resume.d and remove the links to the cardctl script.  Since I got into the habit of always ejecting my CF device prior to suspending, this works for me.  My SD card is essentially a permanent fixture and shouldn't require unmounting.

After making this change, my Z resumes very quickly and I haven't noticed any freezes.

[Drake01]

The GPE PIMs are just brain damaged now.  GPE Contacts refuses to import a CSV contact dump.  GPE Announce is stuck in a loop and notifies me of the same appointments over and over everytime I resume.  Dismissing does not help.  I also can't get into GPE Calendar because it locks up on startup with a lovely blank window so, I can't delete that offending appointments.  I have to go into the Process Manager and play Whack-A-Mole with all the instances of GPE Calendar and GPE Announce that are running.  The offending processes respawn a few times with GPE Announce looping the notifications again.  If I can't fix this soon I'm going to have ipkg remove all the GPE PIMs because it does not look good in a meeting when your Z goes psycho everytime you resume it.   
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Same problem here with the recurring alarm.  GPE Calendar was working fine before I upgraded to builds 5.3.2 & 5.3.3.  I haven't noticed the "blank window" issue, but I've also been using the calendar off my desktop more than my Z because of the annoyance of the alarm.

And I don't believe it's actually an "offending appointment."  When the alarm pops for me, it always shows the current date and time with no description or anything else.  I don't think an appointment actually exists, I think it's just throwing an alarm out for the current time.  No idea how that bug got introduced.  

BTW, did the import feature ever work on Contacts?  I had to build scripts for sqlite to force my contact info in because import was broken when I started using Contact in beta 3.

[HoloVector]

The GPE PIMs are just brain damaged now.  GPE Contacts refuses to import a CSV contact dump.  GPE Announce is stuck in a loop and notifies me of the same appointments over and over everytime I resume.  Dismissing does not help.  I also can't get into GPE Calendar because it locks up on startup with a lovely blank window so, I can't delete that offending appointments.  I have to go into the Process Manager and play Whack-A-Mole with all the instances of GPE Calendar and GPE Announce that are running.  The offending processes respawn a few times with GPE Announce looping the notifications again.  If I can't fix this soon I'm going to have ipkg remove all the GPE PIMs because it does not look good in a meeting when your Z goes psycho everytime you resume it.    
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Same problem here with the recurring alarm.  GPE Calendar was working fine before I upgraded to builds 5.3.2 & 5.3.3.  I haven't noticed the "blank window" issue, but I've also been using the calendar off my desktop more than my Z because of the annoyance of the alarm.

And I don't believe it's actually an "offending appointment."  When the alarm pops for me, it always shows the current date and time with no description or anything else.  I don't think an appointment actually exists, I think it's just throwing an alarm out for the current time.  No idea how that bug got introduced.  

BTW, did the import feature ever work on Contacts?  I had to build scripts for sqlite to force my contact info in because import was broken when I started using Contact in beta 3.
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Glad to hear I'm not the only one with brain damaged GPE PIM apps.  You are correct I haven't gotten a successful import out of the Contacts app.   And found out my Package Manager is hosed too.

The damage is too extensive I'm going have to reflash.  

[merli]

Since moving to 5.3.3 I too have been noticing more X freezeups after a resume. The previous version I was using, 5.3.2 or 5.3.1. (I can't remember which one, sorry), rarely had that problem.
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Out of curiosity, just how does X "freeze" upon resuming?  Does X start and then freeze after the screen is painted?  Or does it just remain dark?  If the latter, have you waited a few minutes to see if it does eventually wake?

I'm asking because I installed the full app package to my SD card.  I noticed that my Z didn't seem to want to wake from resume, but then I decided to just let it sit for a while.  Eventually (might have been close to ten minutes later) it did start.  I'm pretty sure that the problem is that apm was ejecting the SD card upon suspend.  When resuming, it would remount the SD card and then run some process that seems to update all the links for all the packages installed to SD.  This really takes a while if you have everything installed, like I did.

My solution was to go into /etc/apm/suspend.d and /etc/apm/resume.d and remove the links to the cardctl script.  Since I got into the habit of always ejecting my CF device prior to suspending, this works for me.  My SD card is essentially a permanent fixture and shouldn't require unmounting.

After making this change, my Z resumes very quickly and I haven't noticed any freezes.
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Seems to me X are working ... I can move cursor on screen, I see whole desktop but any other input (screen taps, keyboard) is not responding. I can even suspend and resune again. Only way is to kill X from ssh and startx from ssh or reset by batery switch.

[HoloVector]

Am I having fun yet?    

I reflashed early this morning and did the HD image copy.  When pdaXii13 X session came up I was greeted with a plain gray ROX desktop with only a Home shortcut; not the withatwist background and multiple app shortcuts that I got last time.  The X menu is fully populated though.  Is this normal for 5.3.3?  

Also the GIMP is giving me an oversized User Installation screen when I fire it up.  When I Alt-drag to the Continue button and tap it, I get a "Please wait while your personal GIMP folder is being created...." and then it just sits there.  

The Date and Time is still causing me grief but, that might be my problem.  I set my local time then chose my time zone so, I lost 6 hours when I rebooted (trying to see if I could get the full ROX experience like last time).  I think I should have set the time to London Time (GMT 0) then set my local time zone and restarted.  In theory that should set the correct time for my time zone, right?  

Is anyone else seeing these issues?  Was my HDImage file corrupted?


The good news is my Symbol Spectrum24 Wireless CF card was plug and play.  Yay!  

[ArchiMark]

Am I having fun yet?     

I reflashed early this morning and did the HD image copy.  When pdaXii13 X session came up I was greeted with a plain gray ROX desktop with only a Home shortcut; not the withatwist background and multiple app shortcuts that I got last time.  The X menu is fully populated though.  Is this normal for 5.3.3?  

Also the GIMP is giving me an oversized User Installation screen when I fire it up.  When I Alt-drag to the Continue button and tap it, I get a "Please wait while your personal GIMP folder is being created...." and then it just sits there.  

The Date and Time is still causing me grief but, that might be my problem.  I set my local time then chose my time zone so, I lost 6 hours when I rebooted (trying to see if I could get the full ROX experience like last time).  I think I should have set the time to London Time (GMT 0) then set my local time zone and restarted.  In theory that should set the correct time for my time zone, right? 

Is anyone else seeing these issues?  Was my HDImage file corrupted?


The good news is my Symbol Spectrum24 Wireless CF card was plug and play.  Yay!   
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I had the same thing happen....try re-flashing and then reinstall HD Image...

this is assuming your downloads are good...otherwise re-download first...

HTH,

Mark

[Jon_J]

Holovector,
1. When I flashed mine to 5.3.2 the background was gray. I don't think the wallpaper is setup by default. I have since upgraded to 5.3.3 (not 5.3.3 rev3) using the custom.tgz file. To set wallpaper, right click background > select Backdrop. Also, I created my desktop folders by dragging /data, /cf, and /card to my desktop. Make a copy of home, then edit it to get a / (root) folder on the desktop.
2. I don't have Gimp installed, so I cannot answer this.
3. I sort of "gave up" on the timezones thing and I just leave mine set to London.

[Antikx]

I reflashed early this morning and did the HD image copy.  When pdaXii13 X session came up I was greeted with a plain gray ROX desktop with only a Home shortcut; not the withatwist background and multiple app shortcuts that I got last time.  The X menu is fully populated though.  Is this normal for 5.3.3?

I'm obviously using an Akita but I'm pretty sure you should have a wallpaper and icons, as I have.

Also the GIMP is giving me an oversized User Installation screen when I fire it up.  When I Alt-drag to the Continue button and tap it, I get a "Please wait while your personal GIMP folder is being created...." and then it just sits there.

I haven't tried Gimp yet

The Date and Time is still causing me grief but, that might be my problem.  I set my local time then chose my time zone so, I lost 6 hours when I rebooted (trying to see if I could get the full ROX experience like last time).  I think I should have set the time to London Time (GMT 0) then set my local time zone and restarted.  In theory that should set the correct time for my time zone, right? 

ya, mine is off by six hours (or is it 5) every time I reboot, too.

[HoloVector]

Thanks ArchiMark, John_J and Antikx.

John_J to answer your question - Yes, 5.3.2 Full looked like this out of the box.

ArchiMark - Just to clarify.  The first time you flashed to 5.3.3 Full you got the plain ROX desktop and not the full featured one I linked to above so, you reflashed and copied the HSImage and got the full featured ROX desktop?

Antikx - I think you are right it was 5 hours.  At 2AM one loses the ability to count well.  

Now to figure how to ungimp the GIMP.  

EDIT: I've now ungimped the GIMP.  
Keep tapping the OK button even if you can't see it.  It will eventually say something like finalizing settings.  Leave the GIMP alone for a few minutes (I left it for a half hour) then sigkill the GIMP (unless you can get it to close; I couldn't).  Restart it and see an error and it can't find a Gimp 2.0 folder.  Close the GIMP and restart it.  Voila, the GIMP will start without an error.