Thread: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing
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sulu is offline sulu
2011-01-25 , 21:28
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#2021
Originally Posted by radical7dreamer View Post
Hi everybody,
I had easy debian and it worked perfectly until I was trying to install a package from synaptic and my phone restarted. Since then I cannot run either the package manager or the desktop (freezes on the mouse + ctrl+backward background).
Which package was it?

Originally Posted by radical7dreamer View Post
I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling with no luck, even a backup restore. I figure I broke something in the file system, is there a magic command to clean my broken debian?? Thanks for your helping
You could check it with fsck.
Make sure it is not mounted. Just to be sure run "Close Debian" in advance. Then run (adjust the path):
Code:
fsck /path/to/debian.image
Tip for the future: I always have a copy of my debian working image on my N900 from a moment of which I know it's ok. It takes awfully long to create it initially, but once created you can quite quickly update it with (again, adjust the pathes):
Code:
rsync debian.image debian.backup
or restore it:
Code:
rsync debian.backup debian.image
(@qole: It would be nice if the next image could have the mount point for /home/user/.config seperated from the /home/user/.config directory of maemo, maybe just a seperate subdirectory. This is the only place I messed up and that I could not recover easily with rsync. Having it seperated from maemo would make it easy to clean up: just delete the directory, without having to think about what is debian and what is maemo)
 

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