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2009-10-13
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Originally Posted by aboaboit
Your device stopped working cuz we dont have a device and u have it
With just the Nokia standard repositories enabled, I noticed that apt-get dist-upgrade showed a bunch of updates and, being my usual curious self, I immediately went ahead.
Unfortunately, this resulted in the removal of most of the important packages and now the device simply won't boot anymore.
I had a look around and only found flasher 3.5 but no firmware file. Question is, how do I recover the device?
... as soon as we have our devices shipped your device will automatically start and smile, so dont worry 
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2009-10-13
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Well, even on the desktop I never run apt-get dist-upgrade without the '-s' parameter (which will just show what it plans to do, not start doing it). Then I carefully inspect what it intends to remove. If it looks dubious I don't go further, if it looks good I repeat the command without the -s option. And I often use it with plain apt-get upgrade too.
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2009-10-13
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#34
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dist-upgrade shouldn't hose a system for no particular reason though, so there's something in the repositories that it's trying to update to which actually causes all the fallout. The question is, what is it, and what's it doing there?
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2009-10-13
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dist-upgrade can definitely destroy a system. This happens when a repository is in flux, as when upgrading large components. For example, over the last few months the Debian unstable repo has been upgrading KDE3.5 to KDE4. If you just did a mindless apt-get dist-upgrade during this transition you would end up with a system stripped of a huge part of your common KDE applications.
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2009-10-13
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#36
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Oh, absolutely. But the Maemo repositories shouldn't be in any state that resembles Debian Unstable.
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2009-10-13
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#37
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Originally Posted by fanoush
Is there a bug filed? Or maybe dist-upgrade could be disabled from the Maemo apt-get, if it's so dangerous.
apt-get dist-upgrade is not working properly , this is classical maemo trap since Nokia 770 days
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2009-10-13
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#38
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Originally Posted by pelago
Are you sure? Are you sure? Are you sure?
Is there a bug filed? Or maybe dist-upgrade could be disabled from the Maemo apt-get, if it's so dangerous.
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2009-10-13
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#39
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Originally Posted by ymb
Yes
And the default root password is in the
{FLAME-BAIT}whining about not being able to easily get root access is a good warning sign that you should not be attempting to get it!
Either you are a Windows user used to doing everything as administrator or a n00b u*ix-admin who has not yet typed "rm -rf / *" on a production server{/FLAME-BAIT}
The other day I downloaded OpenOffice for my VM ubuntu, and what I got were 34 installer files, all of which seemed to be needed to be run independantly, and in a particular order. What is up with that? Why not a single installer wherein you can select to which extent you wish to install the software/software suite?
This reminded me of the last days of Dos / Win 3.11 unzipping 27 individual floppies to illegally install a game.....That was in 1996.
[Flame-bait] Are lindux distributions today less user friendly than Windows 95 was when it was released? [/Flame-bait]
Last edited by olighak; 2009-10-13 at 10:46.
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2009-10-13
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Originally Posted by olighak
Thats rather odd, given OO.o is installed by default on Ubuntu...
Yes
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