The only problem is I can't boot the device and use it, yeah. hildon-desktop keeps crashing, so the phone shuts down.

So far, I'm finding that the easiest method is to just flash rootfs all over again. It's something that I wanted to avoid a little bit, but eh. Maemo's backup feature makes it a little easier to handle, at the least.

I'm curious what other people do, though, when they run into some kind of issue like this. Do they just commit to a reflash as well, or if there actually is some method of getting into the N900 when problems like this arise.