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Installed Hotplug B and now no boot
« on: July 29, 2004, 11:13:18 am »
I installed cacko QT fresh and then a whole bunch of apps, but eventually was getting generic error installing IPKS "ipkg reports problem", even though I knew IPK was fine.

So I got Hotfix B thinking maybe a swpafile will help, well installing that IPK failed and machine got quirky, so I hard rest it (battery out, etc) Now it just sits at Please Wait in the bottong section..


Any ideas why IPKS are failing and how to fix the non-bboting (short of a complete re-install of the ROM) ?


Thanks.
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« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2004, 12:00:52 pm »
This is happening  over and over again...


I instral Cacko QT rom (fresh) and then try to install Hotfix B IPK and it fails and then messes the machine up so it can't boot.

Any help would be appreciated.
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Installed Hotplug B and now no boot
« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2004, 03:06:17 pm »
IPK with Hotfix B is most likely corrupted. You need to download it again.

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« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2004, 03:36:54 pm »
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IPK with Hotfix B is most likely corrupted. You need to download it again.

Tried that, and even tied hitfix A....both had same problem.

Guess it must be me.

oh well, I can live with Cacko QT AS-is.

BTW, Any reason that SD card should be EXT2, or FAT, or FAT32, in regards to perfromance?

And if you formated it for ext2 and installed ipks to it and then copied the contents to CF and refromatted the SD to FAT32 and restored the contents back...would it work?

Just curious.
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« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2004, 06:33:01 pm »
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Tried that, and even tied hitfix A....both had same problem

This is strange, noone has reported problems installing hotfixes on top of fresh ROM.

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BTW, Any reason that SD card should be EXT2, or FAT, or FAT32, in regards to perfromance?

Very unlikely

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And if you formated it for ext2 and installed ipks to it and then copied the contents to CF and refromatted the SD to FAT32 and restored the contents back...would it work?

Should work, at least if there were no softlinks on ext2 formatted card. I don;t know what happends to a softlink when copied to FAT, especialy if that's a folder. Probably copies the target?

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« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2004, 08:29:27 pm »
Is there another place outside ZUG that I can get te hotfixes...I could not find them at cacko.
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« Reply #6 on: July 29, 2004, 09:48:34 pm »
I figured it out, it wasn't my Hotfix that was corrupted, it was the ROM itself.


I must have messed it up or got an older version that was incompatible witht the hotfix.

Strange as I remember installing a hitfix over that version successfully before.\

Well, Thanks for all the help.

ROM and hotfix are both installed now ...WHEW !!!!!
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« Reply #7 on: July 29, 2004, 10:43:13 pm »
Okay, now I have a new problem...or rather problems.

I got Cacko installed, plus HOTFIX B

But ALOT of really important IPKs will not install (like LIBSDL) and they just say
"ipkg says there was a problem"  (which tells me nothing).

I don't understand this as some simple IPKs  (like simple games) will install, but other IPKS that are more important will not.

Can someone tell me what's going on and where I can look for more info as to WHY these IPKs are failing.

Thanks.
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« Reply #8 on: July 29, 2004, 11:14:47 pm »
Where exactly did you get IPKs that fail? They may be corrupted too. Do you have a proxy in your network? It can sometimes mess with downloads...

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« Reply #9 on: July 29, 2004, 11:35:50 pm »
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Where exactly did you get IPKs that fail? They may be corrupted too. Do you have a proxy in your network? It can sometimes mess with downloads...


Okay, Apparently what happened is that some IPK failed, then all others failed.

After posting last time, I went to the command line and typed ipkg installl <some pkg>

and it asked me if I wanted to install a previously attempted installation called "error"  (I missed noticing this becuase of the name, then I finally figured out that "error" was the name of the package it was trying to install. (go figure))  So by saying to skip install of "error" it would not get all the other cascading errors.

So Then I typed ipkg remove errror and that seemed to clear it all up so the GUI installer works as well and it said it removed all occurances of the "error" name from the database, or something like that.

In summary, it appears that when a package fails to install for some certain (unknown at this time) reasons, future packages may not be starting with a clean slate, which they probably should for safety sake.

Hope this clarifies my experience and thanks for the quick replies and all the help.
« Last Edit: July 29, 2004, 11:38:08 pm by Omicron »
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Upgraded Archos AV320 w/80GB HDD
Pocketop and Targus IR keyboards
Favorite Deal Site: SaveCity.net (pretty cool, good deals daily on one page)