Installed easy debian.working fine except the following issues.
1.How to increase font size?
2.Iceweasel web B sun issue.not getting opened java applets.
3.Querty keyboard is alphabets are working but nubers are not working.What to do please help me?

ok I have commented out mysql in $chroot/var/run for now.

If it is any help in troubleshooting, I got mysql installed as a dependancy while installing drupal via apt-get...

Hi Rebhana, I was trying to install cadabra but ran out of space.
Would moving and constructing the symoblics links for doc and archives as suggested in your wiki help here?

One more thing, I see you actually move archives to archives-
and then create a link for archives. Is this to just keep an addtional
record of files?


Update:
Tried setting the symbolic links and cadabra compiled. Thanks again for the useful wiki!

Still trying to figure out what's making closechroot shut down my N900. qole, can you explain why you use 'fuser -m' and not simply 'fuser'? If I take out the '-m' then it correctly identifies those processes that are accessing files under the /.debian

I guess this is a bug in fuser (and also in the gnu version). But really just looking for a fix.

avidscavenger:

As the fuser man page says:

-m name specifies a file on a mounted file system or a block device that is mounted. All processes accessing files on that file system are listed. If a directory file is specified, it is automatically changed to name/. to use any file system that might be mounted on that directory.

I suspect the way your encrypted partition is mounted is causing your problems with Easy Debian.

A simple workaround for your problem is to find the line in /sbin/closechroot that says:

and stick a # at the beginning. Then add another line, so it looks like this by the end:

This will make the closechroot not use the -m option at all.

I tried something like that and it does indeed appear to work. My question was about what the purpose of the '-m' was and if the code works well without it then why not remove it completely?

Under normal circumstances (when Easy Debian is a mounted filesystem in an image file or a partition), the -m makes sense, and it is the default.

Perhaps for your case, avidscavenger, I should write an exception to the rule; I could have it check for an encrypted partition... Is there anything special about the mount entry for your partition that I could search for?

There is nothing special about my case that I can detect - I'm not even certain that it's because the partition is encrypted, it may be because it contains an ext2 rather than vfat partition, or it may be connected with the device mapper. I have another SD card to play with so when I find the time I'll try a few things to see if I can pin the problem down. At least I have a workaround for the time being.

On an unrelated issue - I often find myself coping /etc/resolv.conf from the native Maemo filesystem to the Easy Debian filesystem so that I have domain resolution available for debian apps. Would it make sense to automate this?

Thanks for your enthusiasm and prompt responses!

avidscavenger, could you please enter "mount" into your terminal when both Easy Debian and your encrypted partition are mounted, and paste here the two lines for those two mounts?

Also, what you ask for is automated. sudo synchroot will copy all the needed stuff to your chroot to make it work.

I guess these are the two lines:

> /dev/mapper/mmc1 on /media/mmc1 type ext2 (0)
> /dev/dm-1 on /.debian type ext2 (noatime,nobh,nodiratime)