mplawner, The current problems with I/O on ITT current firmware are well known, It happens when you put to much load on the mmc's I install from flash, its a bit slower but more stable, but it may cause issues, I seem to have better luck with internal than external.


Just to be clear, its the IO causing the problem, not any of the scripts, this would of hung and crashed for you with or without a script, its the untar of bzip file thats causing your problem.


NOKIA, try to untar a bzipped file of 2-300MB uncompressed. See what your tablet does, tell me you can't reproduce it, I can, and so can mplawner, and I am sure many many others

This is a firmware issue

Good luck mplawner, just be glad you have the script, it would be even more annoying to do this manually several times.