5500 Random lock ups

[Paul Weaver]

I've got a 5500, and for the most part I'm happy with it. Trouble is, every so often I do lots of complex stuff and it crashes. It's really freezes up. The screen is on, but garbled. Tthe green message LED lights up, theres no response. When I flick the swictch on the back to "replace battery", it still stays exactly the same. I have to take the battery out and put it back in.

Of course, after that, I lose everything. *Very* annoying and preventing me from using the Z as anythign more then a toy at the moment. Sure I can back it up every night, but all that time re-instaling apps and setting up networking again is a PITA.

It's done it two or three times with the 2.38(?) ROM, so last time I flashed to the 3.0 sharp rom, but that hasn't helped.

(on a side note I attemped to download the latest stable opie rom, but kept getting "No files released" and, from other pages, lots of 404 not founds)

[lardman]

every so often I do lots of complex stuff and it crashes.

Can you give us a bit more of a clue about what might be causing it?

(on a side note I attemped to download the latest stable opie rom, but kept getting "No files released" and, from other pages, lots of 404 not founds)

The older ROMs are no longer supported; the web page needs to be changed.

Look here for the latest ROM (marked unstable, but works without troubles as long as I've been using it):

http://www.openzaurus.org/official/unstabl.../sl5000,sl5500/

I'd recommend the 64-0 zImage (that way you have all of the memory as memory and no RAM disk).

Install guide here: http://openembedded.org/oe_wiki/index.php/...rusInstallGuide


Si

[Guest]

Nothing too complex, but it might have run out of memory. Last time it was Opera running for ~ 3 hours, a ~500kb pdf in qpdf2, a console running ssh into another machine, possibly (never got arround to checking it was running) mysqld in the background. I'm pretty sure there was a fourth app open, but nothing too different from the default apps included. I'd just installed kaddressbook and korgaizer 1.9.6 too. Also running a wireless network card (Origo card, no WEP at the time)

But it's crashed without any of those apps (apart from qpdf2 and opera) installed, and none of them, IIRC, running.

I may (may) have clicked shutdown, but that's not guarenteed.

Last time I also changed the default user name, but not UID, from zaurus to "iso" (my normal log in name - makes using ssh easier) by editing /etc/passwd and /etc/group. The SD slot has a 128MB SD card in it (it's crashed without that first time though), formatted as ext2.

I cant see any common link betwwen the crashes, so I'm suspecting a hardware problem, maybe even heat related.

I'll download the "unstable" rom tonight and play with it on my commute tomorrow.

Before the last-but-one crash (two crashes in a week, but I've been stressing it a lot harder then normal) I had a vncviewer program installed, couldn't seem to find an ipk for it this weekend (only one I found was keypebble, which was a dead link anyway)

[lardman]

Keypebble's in the OZ feed one directory up from the one I linked above.


Si

[Bombur]

I have found the opera browser to be a consistant memory hog.  I have an 8 MB swapfile set up that is normally enough for everything I do.  But after using opera for about half an hour or so, my memory will deplete to the point that the system will lock up or require a re-boot.  Otherwise for all of my nomal activities the Z is fine.  I am running the Sharp 3.13 ROM with most of my apps installed to the SD card to conserve RAM diskspace for swap.  The only apps that are fast-loaded are my tkcAddressbook and tkcCalendar.

J.