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l'm not sure this is the place for this, but I tried to install the fennec browser via the app manager on my n800, and I apparently didn't have enough space.

This has happened before, and usually I just go to the installed applications and uninstall the program, make some space, and re-install.

This time, I went to “installed applications”, and there is nothing showing as installed. I rebooted, and now the personal menu app isn't working/displaying, and niether is the advanced backlight control. It's fishy. Anyone have any ideas? thanks in advance.

wow, can I get some help here? The application manager isn't showing any installed programs... not sure what to do except try to reflash the tablet. Any help at all would be appreciated!

Please, have patience, this community is a voluntary platform; not paid support.

Probably something in /var/cache/apt got seriously b0rked. We can look into what exactly happened but it will require serious command line usage, and your OS (Chinook or Diablo) is not supported anymore.

I apologize if I seem to be impatient here. I just wasn't sure whether this was a common problem with an easy solution before I go and reflash the device. At this point, it seems the best solution to me, but I'll do a bit more reading before taking action. I'm a tablet newbie. I understand this is all voluntary, which is partly why I love the whole community here.

Thanks, at least, for the response.

I understand.

On desktop and servers it is important to always keep enough space available. Else, databases such as the one I referred to might be written to whereas there is no space available; which leads to either an empty file with lots of 0. Important daemons may crash. And so on. This is why, traditionally, 5% of data is preserved in Ext2/Ext3/Ext4.

Fennec is known to be a space hogging beast because it requires Xulrunner.

To hack around this you can remove some applications and/or data you not use. What I did is I moved some parts of the filesystem to /media/mmc2 (on N810). IIRC I merely moved /var/cache/apt to /media/mmc and then symlinked /var/cache/apt to /media/mmc2/apt but note such solution is not pretty. It worked though, and I think I moved some more data to mmc2. What can also help is running apt-get clean because this deletes all previously downloaded .deb packages.

Not much of a help.
I did try out Fennec the new Fennec.1.0.b4, it worked fine. But it messed up my simple-launcher, when internal flash memory are low. I did not try to un-install Fennec. I always have a working image of my whole system, yes, an image, not just a flimsy backup, I just snapped it back on.
Sorry, not much of a help,

bun

Hmph. I'm kicking myself for not backing up anything.

I'm thinking a reflash is the easiest solution here, which is not something I've done before. I appreciate your advice, allnames, but I really don't have any problem with the idea of starting over, since all my pertinent data is on my 8 gig SD card in the bottom of the device (external port).

I'm definitely staying away from fennec, though. midori was actually working fine as an alternate browser when web stuff didn't work on the plain web browser.

It's frustrating, since everything seems to still be on there, but I just can't access certain things. I can't edit the sound volume, for example, since the icon just isn't in the status bar, and no matter what I do with the options, I can't make any changes.