After few weeks of happiness with N810 (upgraded to latest 36-5 firmware) it suddenly (after a power on) lost half of the UI elements including scrollbars (sliders), up/down arrows in menu, checkboxes (in applet selection), boxes around OK/Cancel buttons... It got basically unusable so I had to reflash it yesterday but after few hours of playing it happened again. There were no applications installed yet (apart from ssh server), I was just using the internal mail and chat applications.

Could it be that the "modest" (internal mail application) destroys or corrupts the maemo/hildon/gtk (or what) when it sees my 6000+ mails in IMAP folder? Any way how to fix it without reflashing, please?

I don't know any reason modest should do that, though I don't see any other obvious causes either. Try switching to a different theme?

Ah, that is a good idea with the different theme, will try that next time it gets corrupted. Thanks. Are the themes rewritable by user 'user'? So that say the IMAP cache of 'modest' would rewrite and corrupt it?

Well, the IMAP cache wouldn't be going anywhere near the themes in logical structure (directory tree), so if it did somehow overwrite it, it would have to involve a nasty filesystem error, which would overwrite whatever was in the way (in actual disk layout), regardless of permissions.

But I'm pretty sure they're not user-writable (assuming no bad filesystem errors).

It just happened again, this time I was just browsing the web, "modest" wasn't even set up. I noticed that a button border is missing in a dialog so I rebooted (using "reboot" from the command line) and it's screwed again. Interesting is that the battery charge level dropped dramatically at the same time, from 90% to 14%.

Tried changing the theme but that didn't help. I'll attach a screenshot to show you how it looks like:


I am real afraid of what's going on. Is that a faulty hardware? Is the filesystem getting corrupted somehow? The device is only two weeks old :-(

Here's one thing to try (as root):

Code:

gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/hicolor

(Ooops, see below, please)

It could just be the pixmap cache is corrupted, in which case this should recover it. If it's not the pixmap cache, then it seems like the filesystem is indeed getting corrupted. Not at all sure how, but if this is happening after a clean flash in a new device, and not happening to anyone else, it sounds like the root is a hardware fault.

No, I'm an idiot; actually the above code won't help, because the gtk theme pixmaps are stored separately from icons, and I'm not seeing a cache for them here -- I think they're only cached by the sapwood server, maybe. So I'm not seeing an obvious solution other than warranty service.

Hi, there's enough free disk space, I assume?

How about the CPU usage? Running "top" in a Terminal window should tell you if there's processes using a lot of CPU and/or memory...

Very unlikely that it's related to https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3357 (Modest bug that came to my mind when reading the first posting here).
You have installed the latest updates, I assume? (running version 4.2008.36-5)

My guess is that reason is found somewhere from /home/user/.osso directory

Oh god, this problem! I had it to, it has nothing to do with Modest. Some other people had it as well, and there was a thread. I can't find it, but I think there was some solution. I reflashed. It brings back bad memories.

Some people installed bash...

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=14915