Debian with Xqt

[smuelas]

Hi byzantium,
As you speak usually about "Pocketworkstation" I dont know if you are referring to "Debian on XQT" or really to Pocket...
I had this same problem with Pocket... until I modified a script from Klaus Weider. It was better but sometimes also the proccess died.
On the contary, with Xqt I've never had any problems (one of the big advantages that I signaled the other day). Usually, I am in Debian screen and I do suspend and reactivate with the same result as with Qtopia.
I have a Hitachi 2Gb. microdrive.
smuelas

[byzantium]

Hi Smuelas, I'm using the Wiki instructions for X/Qt on Debian.  Is there a way to suspend and reactivate at the command line from within Debian?

[smuelas]

byzantium,
I thought you had a SL-6000. (don't ask me why). Now, your question makes me think that, perhaps, you have another one.
As I have said before, with the 6000 and using Debian over Xqt, all the standard capabilities of the original ROM are maintained. So, to suspend and come back it should be done exactly the same as if you were not using Debian: tap the power button.
From inside Debian, it could be possible to suspend from the command line, but totally impossible to resume :-)   Anyway, to try to suspend from the command line you should have available the original directory "  /dev  ". This is possible if you mount not only "  /proc  " but also "  /dev  ". You can do it with: " mount -o bind  ", but, probably,  you will have some new problems with ttys. Don't forget that you cal always open an original Qtopia console and do there anything allowed in the original ROM.
smuelas

[byzantium]

Smuelas,

Yep, I do have a 6000, and just one

Perhaps I've done the install wrong, because I'm still having problems suspending and restarting.  After a reboot, and mount -t /proc again, everything is fine.

I'm looking forward to your new webpage!

thanks, byz

[smuelas]

Hi, byz,
I'm a little bit busy just now with the students exams...but I hope to do my "homework" with ZUG a.s.a.p.
smuelas

[wmadan]

Hello,

I have an  SL-C860 runninng X/qt according to Hatchetman's wiki. When I run an x-term, I get an error message "/home/root/.bash_profile: Too many levels of symbolic links"

And, when I try to install packages, I get: "dpkg: failed to open configuration file '/home/root/.dpkg.cfg' for reading: Too many symbolic links"

I'm green around the ears with this, so please, how do I go about resolving this?

Bill

[hatchetman]

Did you use the gnu-tar binary found on pocketworkstations website or did you use the busybox tar? Or maybe if you extracted the files on another computer things got messed up somehow. Where do these symbolic links link to? Another possibility is maybe your filesystem is corrupt. Unmount it and run fsck.ext2 see if it finds any errors.

[wmadan]

I used the one referred to on the wiki (which is not accessible to me now -- did you take the page down?).

What's the exact umount command I have to use to unmount?

Thanks,
Bill

[xjqian]

I used the one referred to on the wiki (which is not accessible to me now -- did you take the page down?).

It's been moved to a new page due to the site migration It's Here now.

I've made some small changes to the wiki based on my own experience, correct me if I'm wrong.

[xjqian]

Here's my experience

1. I also got the error message ever time I start an xterm

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/home/root/.bash_profile: Too many levels of symbolic linksIt prevents me to do things like install locales, dpkg reconfigure, etc as zaurus. However everything works ok if I run as su. I suspect it's caused by this line in the wiki, in debroot directory

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ln -s root home/rootshould I use cp instead to avoid the symbolic link?

2. Everything lauches fine from the command line as su. However, desktop click don't work for most of the application. xpdf and games lauches fine though. I suspect it's also related to the problem above.

3. it takes about 1min  to launch firefox, thunderbird and Konqueror (slow). afterwards they work fine but not as snappy as you would like to see, but not unacceptable either. dilo and sylpheed are speedy and sleek, better for people prefer the speed than the layout.

GIMP
Abiword
Gnumeric

all works fine. the spped is not bad.

[smuelas]

The symbolic link should be to:   /home/root
I don't know what is in the wiki page but you have written:    home/root
The "slash" is the difference  :-)
smuelas

[byzantium]

If you are in /mnt/cf, or already chrooted and are in /, then ln -s root home/root, as in the wiki, wil work just fine

byz

[wmadan]

So, when I try to unmount my SD card, I get a "busy" message.
When I suspended the machine and took the SD card out, I couldn't get it recognized by my Z. Other cards I have worked fine.

After reformatting the card on my WinXP laptop, the card could only be recognized by Windows. So, that SD card (Lexar 1 GB) went back to the store and they gave me another one. I really don't want this to happen again with this new card. The installation of PocketWorkstation went flawlessly and icewm works fine. It's just that I can't unmount and eject the card.

I also still continue to get the "too many levels of symbolic links" message within the terminal, too. How can I correct this.

Thank you for your time.

Bill

[byzantium]

wmadan, can you post your steps and commands?

[smuelas]

byzantium,
It is clear that if you are in thr ROOT directory,  /  ,  to put the slash before " home " is not necessary. Nevertheless, one must be used to put it as the instruction can be done from anywhere, for example being in root, it is perfectly possible to write:
ln -s /root  /home/root
smuelas