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bvaibhav is offline bvaibhav
2011-12-26 , 09:51
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My N900 wont start after is replaced the /bin/busybox with the busybox-power standalone package.
 
michaaa62 is offline michaaa62
2011-12-26 , 11:40
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What do you mean by replacing??? Did you uninstall it?
Busybox-power does co-exist along busybox
Code:
[1|user@Nokia-N900|~]apt-cache policy busybox-power busybox
busybox-power:
  Installed: 1.19.3power3
  Candidate: 1.19.3power3
  Version table:
 *** 1.19.3power3 0
        500 http://repository.maemo.org fremantle/free Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.19.3power1 0
        500 http://repository.maemo.org fremantle-1.3/free Packages
        500 http://repository.maemo.org fremantle/free Packages
busybox:
  Installed: 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso30+0m5
  Candidate: 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso30+0m5
  Version table:
 *** 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso30+0m5 0
        500 https://downloads.maemo.nokia.com ./ Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Please clarify, from what you remember, done.
Did you make sure that not only the kernel got kind of corrupted, by reflashing just the kernel from a firmware image? http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_t...rt_topic.21.29
 
bvaibhav is offline bvaibhav
2011-12-27 , 06:05
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Thanks for your reply. I got my phone restored by flashing the rootfs and the using the Backup menu app from extras-devel to restore the previously created backup.

Here's what i did that created the issue in first place.
1. cp /bin/busybox /home/user/MyDocs/busybox_backup
2. cp /home/user/MyDocs/busybox-power /bin
Last edited by bvaibhav; 2011-12-27 at 06:06. Reason: Typing error
 
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eight is offline eight
2011-12-27 , 13:18
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#4
Why don't you use

apt-get install busybox-power ?
 
bvaibhav is offline bvaibhav
2011-12-28 , 03:55
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#5
Earlier I was getting error like package not found when I tried apt-get install busybox-power

Tried it again today and it got installed properly.

Thanks.
 
iDont is offline iDont
2011-12-28 , 12:08
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Originally Posted by bvaibhav View Post
Here's what i did that created the issue in first place.
1. cp /bin/busybox /home/user/MyDocs/busybox_backup
2. cp /home/user/MyDocs/busybox-power /bin
I see two problems with this approach:
  • MyDocs resides on a FAT32 formatted partition by default. You'll lose the correct permissions to execute binaries when you store them there. Overwriting a system binary with a non-executable binary will obviously cause pain.
  • You state that you copied "busybox-power" to "/bin". This itself cannot cause a reboot loop since you haven't replaced /bin/busybox at all (unless you meant to say that you had copied the binary to "/bin/busybox" instead).

Please be very careful when replacing system binaries yourself. You aren't the first one to get burned that way .
 
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