Hurray for Sardine...
 

Followed the instructions on page:

http://sardine.garage.maemo.org/getting_started.html

Now my device, during startup, reboots every time.....
(after the intial startup screeen of kernel version etc)

http://maemo.org/

btw. if there is anything exciting to report from sardine, plz dont hesitate to tell us :-)

@Nightmare - not really sure what you are suggesting... is it that the OP shouldn't be using Sardine on the device? Perhaps s/he falls into the "tinkerer" category - I know I do. I tried Sardine and also got the reboot loop - not surprising really, as "apt-get upgrade" failed due to a multitude of missing dependencies! :)

Just out of interest, has anyone succeeded installing Sardine on the device by following the Wiki "getting started" instructions?

Right. I feel bad for the Nokia devs right now.

More notes:

On the same page, no less. That said, it'll just whitescreen as the AF will fail to init.

From: http://maemo.org/maemowiki/SardineDistro (the Current Issues page)

The correct way to do it is at: http://maemo.org/maemowiki/HowTo_GetStartedWithSardine --- put together by me (from the notes of Fanoush and others) --- I followed the process myself, and it worked fine, although Sardine isn't terribly useful right now. I didn't notice any massive gains in performance, reliability, or flash player version =)

I was able to do it a while ago, but it took a couple tries before I managed to figure out what you needed to do to make it work. Obviously disabling the lifeguard reset was key... I'm still running it on a day-to-day basis, and I bug the developers in my spare time to fix stuff :) If anyone is looking for major changes they will be disappointed since there are few things that are recognizable as different. Mostly I run into packages that aren't compatible in one way or another with the new changes.

I wish I had a better idea of what the devs are concentrating on. There's an RSS feed for the changes (http://repository.maemo.org/sardine/rss20.xml) but it seems pretty slow-paced and related to small bug fixes as opposed to new applications or larger changes. I'm guessing the exciting stuff still happens behind closed doors so as to facilitate a bigger "splash" when it's finally released.

Larry

Thanks Larry - I thought the missing dependencies and failed upgrade would have been responsible for the reboots, but I must admit I didn't disable the lifeguard reset, will try that later this wek. Did you get any errors when performing the apt-get upgrade on a chroot'd rsync'd copy of OS2006?

apt-get upgrade?
 

I am a AIX and RedHat guy, so I am not really familiar with apt-get. I saw the upgrade option and curiosity got the best of me.

I am running OS2006

The next thing I know I was upgrading some packages, it got to maemo-launcher and POW (REBOOT), OK no problem came right back up, ran apt-get upgrade again, ERROR, says runs dpkg --configure -a , I think that was the command, anyway ran that. ERROR tells me maemo-launcher is hosed.

This system is booted from MMC, I downloaded maemo-launcher, booted back to flash, insmod ext2, mounted my mmcp2 and used dpkg --admin --root and set it to the mnt dirs. I was then able to put maemo-launcher back onto the mounted system. It was kind of cool, I booted back onto mmcp2 and dpkg and apt-get were all set again.

Questions:

Does upgrading get me anything, I have heard about the reboot loops?

Are reboot loops only in sardine?

Now when I run apt-get upgrade, it says 0 upgraded, 4 not upgraded

The following packages have been kept back
hildon-fmmm
hildon-widgetsmm
libglibmm-2.4.1
libgtkmm-2.4.1

What does kept back mean? Can I download them and install them with dpkg? Should I, were they kept back for a reason? Am I in am unstable state?

IS THE WORLD ENDING???

Anyway, if anyone can shed any light into any of this I'd be grateful~