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2008-05-23
, 19:44
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#3
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Originally Posted by ericdkirk
Never ran that.....doing it now
Did you run "apt-get distro-upgrade" ever?
That has been the cause of my only reboot loops.
Had to reflash then.
Just my thoughts.
ETA: Just got the following:
E: Invalid operation distro-upgrade
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2008-05-23
, 19:48
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#4
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Never mind. This worked:
apt-get -u dist-upgrade
apt-get -u dist-upgrade
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2008-05-23
, 20:46
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@ Ottawa, ON
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#5
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Originally Posted by headlice
mmmmmm .... boot loops.
it sometimes puts my n800 in a continuous boot loop.
Is there a solution to the endless loop other than reflashing?
Is there a reason why the device would do this on certain installs?
There are watchdogs that run that look for things crashing that shouldn't and do the brute-force "correction" of rebooting. I'm not sure how you broke out of your boot loop but if you are doing experimental things then you can disable the watchdog with the flasher tool.
My guess would be one of the wifi sniffer tools mucked with the wireless driver. I don't think the built-in driver is completely able to handle the modes that you need to be in to fully task advantage of those tools.
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2008-05-24
, 19:18
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#6
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Originally Posted by mwiktowy
Well, it has not happened again since I did the distro upgrade... Ill post back here if it does it again.
mmmmmm .... boot loops.
There are watchdogs that run that look for things crashing that shouldn't and do the brute-force "correction" of rebooting. I'm not sure how you broke out of your boot loop but if you are doing experimental things then you can disable the watchdog with the flasher tool.
My guess would be one of the wifi sniffer tools mucked with the wireless driver. I don't think the built-in driver is completely able to handle the modes that you need to be in to fully task advantage of those tools.
My fix was to reflash the unit.
Specs on the system:
-latest OS2008 update
-n800
situation:
when installing things, it sometimes puts my n800 in a continuous boot loop.
These "things" was aircrack-ng and then when I ran airodump-ng it crashed.
Just now, I tried installing Khertan's screen applets (specifically installed homenetstats-0.0.4.armel.deb and also a dependancy and it crashed again. Good thing I had somewhat of a backup and reflashed the device and restored the backup.
Is there a solution to the endless loop other than reflashing?
Is there a reason why the device would do this on certain installs?