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It's been a long while since I was using Linux daily, but I remember that runlevel switching to singleuser mode was at boot time from LILO (usually to fix something). I don't know what bootloader Maemo uses but it's probably similar unless things have drastically changed.

Does the phone start at all or can you not reboot it? If you changed the runlevel in a running kernel, it's likely dropped you out of runlevel 3, which is what I think is normal multiuser mode, so no X, etc., .

I've just done a Google search and came up with this: the phone will not boot without Nokia servicing if the /var/lib/dsme/boot_count reaches 50. This is a record of the number of times the phone has rebooted itself e.g., due to a crash and not with the user starting the reboot. Might be something there with your problem?

This is what my phone says it contains. What did you change?

~ $ cat /etc/event.d/rcS-late
Code:
description "late rcS actions" 

start on started xomap 
stop on stopping bme 

console none 

script 
# Generate fstab and mount /home 
. /etc/default/mount-opts 

fstab=/etc/fstab 
tmp_fstab=/tmp/fstab 

sfdisk -l /dev/mmcblk0 | awk \ 
-v home_opts="$home_opts" -v fat_opts="$fat_opts" \ 
-f /usr/lib/genfstab.awk > $tmp_fstab 

cmp -s $tmp_fstab $fstab || cp $tmp_fstab $fstab 
rm -f $tmp_fstab 

/bin/mount /home || echo "Failed to mount /home partition." 

if [ ! -d /home/user ] 
then 
if [ -d /home/preinstalled ] 
then 
mv /home/preinstalled /home/user 
else 
mkdir /home/user 
fi 
cd /etc/skel 
cp -a . /home/user 
chown -R user:users /home/user 
fi 

# We can safely continue booting now. 
initctl emit MOUNTS_OK 

/sbin/swapon -a || echo "Failed to enable paging partition." 

# Setup lowmem module 
echo 32768 > /proc/sys/vm/lowmem_deny_watermark_pages 
echo 98304 > /proc/sys/vm/lowmem_notify_high_pages 
echo 131072 > /proc/sys/vm/lowmem_notify_low_pages 
echo 1024 > /proc/sys/vm/lowmem_nr_decay_pages 

# Exclude some UIDs from memory allocation denial. 
# 30000 is messagebus, 30001 could be used by Matchbox 
echo "30000 30001 30002 30003" > /proc/sys/vm/lowmem_allowed_uids 

# Adjust flushing of memory card buffers 
echo 40 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio 
echo 10 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_ratio 

# Initialize PRNG pool with the HW RNG. Slow, but that's ok. 
URANDOM_POOLSZ=512 
if [ -e /dev/hwrng ]; then 
echo "Seeding entropy pool" 
dd if=/dev/hwrng of=/dev/urandom bs=$URANDOM_POOLSZ count=1 
fi 
end script 

normal exit 0

Last edited by pete; 2010-01-02 at 03:52.