Installed CSSU. Boot up, no hildon, just icons and widgets...
 

I did a killall hildon-desktop in xterm to update my transitions.ini changes and then everything just went crazy. Did a hard reset and now only some widgets and icons show up on my left corner. I can see the status bar and I tap it to bring up the menu but then it disappears. Cannot even connect to wifi because it just disappears after that. I've read that it could be a problem with the transitions.ini file. Tried to open xterm with ctrl+shift+x with no avail.

My N900 has a broken USB so I cannot reflash my phone. Anyone know any other way or had a similar problem know a solution to this issue?

Re: Installed CSSU. Boot up, no hildon, just icons and widgets...
 

wow, thats cool, never hard reset ur N900 with cssu installed, thats my experience, maybe others can help you, or maybe you can still open xterminal from menu?

Re: Installed CSSU. Boot up, no hildon, just icons and widgets...
 

I can't even access the apps menu. I can only open the widgets or apps that are piled on top of each other on the left corner.

Re: Installed CSSU. Boot up, no hildon, just icons and widgets...
 

have u try to reboot ur phone? im noob, i wish i can help u with simple thing, sorry

Re: Installed CSSU. Boot up, no hildon, just icons and widgets...
 

@dmb769 Seems you messed up transitions.ini, so you can try to reboot and press ctrl-shift-x while hildon-desktop is still not crashed. Once you have terminal, you can fix what you've broken.

BTW your thread title is misleading, it leaves the impression that it is CSSU who left your device in unusable state. While it was your mistake. I will appreciate if you change it to something correctly describing what has happened.

Re: Installed CSSU. Boot up, no hildon, just icons and widgets...
 

Well, I've had my N900 for almost 2 years and this is the first time I had this problem when I recently installed the CSSU yesterday. My apologies if I implied the fault was with the CSSU it's just that I have edited and killall hildon-desktop a million times before with the vanilla N900 with no problems along with editing the transitions.ini file. Thought it could be a CSSU-related issue so that's why I included it in the title.


Tried my best to open X-Term and still no go.

Re: Installed CSSU. Boot up, no hildon, just icons and widgets...
 

@dmb769
As per freemangordon, reboot wait for a few seconds after nokia hands and bash Ctrl + Shift and X until Terminal appears, you may have to try it a few times.
Without a working uUSB I am unsure of another solution.

Re: Installed CSSU. Boot up, no hildon, just icons and widgets...
 

sorry for being off topics, but..
seriously? this is new to me. haven't installed CSSU myself, and if this true, i might end up never installing CSSU this way

Re: Installed CSSU. Boot up, no hildon, just icons and widgets...
 

Oh ... just remembered..
If you haven't removed the Power Key entry for CSSU Features you can restore the transitions.ini from there.

Re: Installed CSSU. Boot up, no hildon, just icons and widgets...
 

Can you elaborate or link me to what you're talking about.

For the life of me, I still cannot open Xterm. I removed the boot video (Nokia hands) from start up so it goes straight from the Nokia logo to the loading dots. Where exactly do I have to hit the shortcut key to access Xterm?

Re: Installed CSSU. Boot up, no hildon, just icons and widgets...
 

Press the power key, if CSSU Features is there tap it.
Press the power key again, tap restore transitions.
Wiki

The idea is to hit Ctrl Shift and X while booting before hildon hits the corrupt transition file. This has the best chance of it being executed. As soon as the desktop is on the screen.
This shortcut should work all the time, but the problem with transitions maybe stopping that.
Not doubting you but are you certain you are pressing only Ctrl Shift and X?
i.e. Top Left / Bottom Left / X

Re: Installed CSSU. Boot up, no hildon, just icons and widgets...
 

Cannot pull up the menu with power button. Only can lock the device by hitting it twice. Still cannot open xterm. I think I may just be royally screwed.

Re: Installed CSSU. Boot up, no hildon, just icons and widgets...
 

I m also suffering from the same problem.Glad to see that i m not alone :)

I created a thread for this problem but no one helped...
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=85547

Re: Installed CSSU. Boot up, no hildon, just icons and widgets...
 

I have the same problem but i can open x terminal.i've installed cssu community update.
Can anyone tell me how to install CSSU features configuration editor via X terminal....
Thanx in Advance.

Re: Installed CSSU. Boot up, no hildon, just icons and widgets...
 

All the info is in my posts above.
If you can't open X terminal or the power menu you will have to reflash.

Editing your transitions.ini with different methods was bound to cause problems.

It's all in the wiki's, please read them.

wiki.maemo.org/Community_SSU

http://wiki.maemo.org/Talk:Community_SSU

http://wiki.maemo.org/Community_SSU/...hildon-desktop

wiki.maemo.org/Reflash

Re: Installed CSSU. Boot up, no hildon, just icons and widgets...
 

Thanx for the reply :)
I can open x terrminal,can you tell me how to install Cssu features configuration via apt-get (x-terminal)
http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/cssufeatures/

Re: Installed CSSU. Boot up, no hildon, just icons and widgets...
 

Problem solved in:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=85547

Re: Installed CSSU. Boot up, no hildon, just icons and widgets...
 

Amazing what happens when you read the wiki's ;)
Thank's for the follow up. :)