Re: BackTrack 5 (arm) released
 

What can I say... LOL :D

I know it's easy ;) And if we are compiling it by ourselfes anyway, we can compile it with some nice patches: http://www.disenchant.ch/blog/teachi...ashes/106.html ;)

Other problems were probably caused by damaged microSD card, I'm now wiping my card and copying files to it again, then I will repeat the whole process with writing short tutorial in case anyone else is interested in running Backtrack in chroot and xephyr (like Easy Debian) and will be able to help (now I know only that after trying to start window manager. cpu is going crazy, ram is goin crazy and then phone suddenly reboots, I still don't know what is the cause).

Edit: reported "john" issue in the bugs section of official BT5 forum.

Re: BackTrack 5 (arm) released
 

Another good thing to keep in mind is that since BT5 is based off of a reasonably modern Ubuntu, and usually comes with a lot of compiling dependencies installed or easily available, it should be easy to compile the tools that it's missing.

This is as compared to navigating the nightmare that is dependencies in Maemo. Plus, in the chroot there are no worries of breaking Maemo itself.

Re: BackTrack 5 (arm) released
 

I think ive gone and broken something, dont know what ive done but now terminal doesnt stay open. If I run terminal, itll sit there blank with the loading circle in the top bar, then after a few seconds it closes.

Any ideas? Google found nothing.

Restart fixed it

Raaage.
exec: 25: /usr/bin/lxsession: not found

Re: BackTrack 5 (arm) released
 

It'll happen again. You're running out of RAM. You’ll need to add a swap partition. It makes stuff go a lot smoother. I used gparted on my laptop to shrink my memory card’s ext3 parition down a bit and added a 2GB swap partition (overkill, but why not). Then you can either add it in /etc/fstab on your N900, or use the quick and dirty way of `swapon /dev/mmcblk1p2` or whatever your partition is. Run `free` to find out if it worked.

That's what I did anyway.

Re: BackTrack 5 (arm) released
 

Some errors about not able to load failsafe sessions now.
Also, when I chroot into my debian setup, instead of the root@n900 or whatever, it has \h:\w$, commands work fine but I cant do anything like up, down, tab, etc.

Any ideas?
I think I messed up my image. Time to start again.

Re: BackTrack 5 (arm) released
 

Azkay, see my previous post. I originally quoted the wrong message somehow. Your issues sound like what happened to me when I started running out of RAM.

Re: BackTrack 5 (arm) released
 

Its not a ram issue, well it doesnt look like it.
Ive got the window up, ive got it "running" xfce- an error box saying:

Unable to load a failsafe session
Unable to determine failsafe session name. Possible causes xconfd isn't running (D-Bus setup problem);
environment variable $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is set incorrectly (must include "/etc") or xfce4-session is installed incorrectly.

Re: BackTrack 5 (arm) released
 

I can't speak for sure about your xfce errors, but the terminal crashing sounds like exactly the problem I was having due to no free memory.

Re: BackTrack 5 (arm) released
 

Terminal crashing I fixed with a reboot- it was happening with the normal maemo terminal, with nothing else running.

Ive got it sort of working. If I startx -- :2 from inside the chroot, it runs xfce ontop of maemo, flickering and half invisible. If I su root or su azkay inside the chroot and try, I get the failsafe session error connecting to xephyr and such. Im making n osense.

I think ive got it

Re: BackTrack 5 (arm) released
 

http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/9...1051914064.png

Though, terminal nor firefox run in it.
"Failed to execute default Terminal Emulator. Input/output error.".

Actually, I think the shortcuts are just pointing to the wrong place. Too bad the screen size is too small so I cant move windows. Keyboard doesnt do anything either. Oh well, small steps.

Got the window proper size, now I just need to figure out how to change the resolution.
Might just use openbox instead of xfce4, less annoying, 50mb instead of 250mb.