n900 is dead-failed installing app and cant reboot anymore
 

hi folks
ive got a prob with my nokia n900-i was installing one application <nokia gathering or something like that> everything was fine till moment when the installation got stuck.than I turn off the phone hoping to reboot it and forget the problem.but when I ahave done so the nokia screen came out and following message:
installing software update,please do not interrupt 4 %....and nothing happen onwards.I can use phone....someone know any idea how to fix it or my phone is dead forever?

Re: n900 is dead-failed installing app and cant reboot anymore
 

Do you want power user advice, or simple non-root or commands advice?

Re: n900 is dead-failed installing app and cant reboot anymore
 

http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_tablet_firmware

Have a look at the updating & flashing section.

Re: n900 is dead-failed installing app and cant reboot anymore
 

a bit late for this, but never ever interrupt application installation process..

Re: n900 is dead-failed installing app and cant reboot anymore
 

The installation sometimes hangs.

Re: n900 is dead-failed installing app and cant reboot anymore
 

yup! it always hangs on my case when a jumbo app is being installed. it freezes like its always winter. at first time, the battery went out and the n900 turned of resulting for errors that a reflash was suggested for me to do.

most of the time when apps are being installed (specially with appman) there is a slight freeze which i believe is normal.

sometimes the "wait and see" option is needed, even if it seems like forever.

Re: n900 is dead-failed installing app and cant reboot anymore
 

That is the safest option. But installing something like Nitdroid where you know so many things can go wrong, i always flip a coin after every hour. Heads keep installing, tails restart and try again

Re: n900 is dead-failed installing app and cant reboot anymore
 

ok thanks but still I dont know what I have to do on my own or the only option I have is to go to the service?

Re: n900 is dead-failed installing app and cant reboot anymore
 

Nah, just follow the instructions here:http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_tablet_firmware

It shouldn't take more then half an hour and it's not that hard to do as it first seems. If you can't get into flashing mode, don't worry it will be done anyway.

Re: n900 is dead-failed installing app and cant reboot anymore
 

then the package is somewhat broken. but interrupting installation with pwr key could mess system files pretty badly (power off while writing modifications to bootup scripts for example)

Re: n900 is dead-failed installing app and cant reboot anymore
 

I suspect you may end up needing to reflash. Fortunately, it's not too big of a problem - I've got a link to a video in my signature on a foolproof way of doing it.

Re: n900 is dead-failed installing app and cant reboot anymore
 

hey. i was installing this very app <Nokia Data Gathering> and the same stuff as described by OP happened to me. Thanks a lot to the guys who posted the helpful notes!

Re: n900 is dead-failed installing app and cant reboot anymore
 

Yes, Nokia Data Gathering did it to me too. The MySQL install script was taking more than 20 minutes and I had enough. I didn't realize it would jam up the boot process if I turned it off. I am irritated that it does since if this were a debian computer, shutting it off during an application installation would not cause it to fail to boot. Of course, if you were installing a kernel or bootloader it might but NOT an application.

I guess I have no choice now, it's been sitting at 3% for quite some time. Anyone know what it is actually doing? Is it trying to complete the aborted installation? Is there no way of telling it to skip it?

Re: n900 is dead-failed installing app and cant reboot anymore
 

VERY IMPORTANT NEWS EVERYONE
YOU DO NOT NEED TO REFLASH

I just hit CTRL+C a couple times and it will kill that script (the one which prints "Installing updates do not interrupt" to the console) and allow the phone to continue booting!! (I also hit 'u' a couple times because thats the bootloader key but I doubt that did anything.)

You don't need a new battery or a flasher or anything, just Ctrl-C.

Once you've rebooted you will need to repair the packaging system state with dpkg from the command line (I haven't done that yet but it should be easy, I've done it several times on a full debian box, and once on the phone.)

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(If you are already familiar with debian package administration this post will not be of much use to you.)

You will need to run from the Terminal app:
If you don't have gainroot installed then you are probably in trouble.
Then:
This told me that "ndg" is in an inconsistent state and that I must continue installing it in order to remove it.
So run:
Answer all the inane mysql prompts, it doesn't matter what answers you give we are just going to remove it in a moment:
There are probably several other dependencies that should be removed but mysql will likely slow down your phone if it is not removed.

[USE * CONTROL -C * ] Re: n900 is dead-failed installing app and cant reboot anymore
 

:):):):):):):):)

Thanks a LOT !!!

You really made my day - had everyhting in place again for a reflash - untill I saw you message !

It's up again now !! That saved me a lot of hassle & stress.

:):):):):):):):)

The cause probably is Nokia Data Gathering

:mad::mad:


Thanks again !

Re: n900 is dead-failed installing app and cant reboot anymore
 

I get as response:

Any ideas what to do next?

Re: n900 is dead-failed installing app and cant reboot anymore
 

Try

Re: n900 is dead-failed installing app and cant reboot anymore
 

Thanks for you reply.

I did issue that command.

And followed the instructions to (re)install & then uninstall/remove NDG.

But I get stuck again ;-)

See:

Re: n900 is dead-failed installing app and cant reboot anymore
 

Try to clear the package cache firstIs wget installed at all?Then try to reinstallAt last try to get rid

Re: n900 is dead-failed installing app and cant reboot anymore
 

I get this

It looks like it is installed.

Then over to the next command:

Hmmm .. still this wget error


So what now? :confused:


(thanks! for your help sofar)

Re: n900 is dead-failed installing app and cant reboot anymore
 

wget for maemo does not have the option --trust-server-names, while it is a possible option for the i386 architecture, so the is a bug in the postinst script of the package.
Did you ever check the temporary log in /tmp?

To apply some force to get rid try

Re: n900 is dead-failed installing app and cant reboot anymore
 

Never checked that log - still a bit of a newbie in Linux ;-)

I did what you suggested, here is the output:

Is this OK now (cleaned) ?

Re: n900 is dead-failed installing app and cant reboot anymore
 

Should be. Try to check with Still to do: Removed the group for ndg users. Could beAnd should remove the remainders of the dependencies like mysql-server

Re: n900 is dead-failed installing app and cant reboot anymore
 

Done !

Duplicate sources.list?

And

Tha't OK.

1 not upgraded ..

But it looks like it's clean now.

Re: n900 is dead-failed installing app and cant reboot anymore
 

For the duplicate sources.list entry try to delete the culprits through Hildon Application Manager. Some of these install buttons do echo the repository line into the repo file regardless of earlier entries.

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I am sorry, but I do not understand that.

How do I identify the 'culprits' ?

Re: n900 is dead-failed installing app and cant reboot anymore
 

Start Application Manager, Open catalogs, scroll down the list and identify the duplicate entry for the extras repo, checkif it is really the culprit by disabling it, later when you will have checked from the command line with apt-get update, delete it.