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olemagnuskarlsen	2010-02-23 , 10:12
Posts: 6 \| Thanked: 1 time \| Joined on Feb 2010 @ ålesund	#1

Hi all.

I seem to have a little trouble. After copying some large mp3's (audio books) from External microSD to internal memory, I briefly became aware a warning (or just a) message.

"Something something jadajadajada... and will now be write-protected (and then for some reason I didn't read before it disappeared)".

So, i have a partally write-protected internal memory. Documents folder basically I think. And the internal storage is no longer accessible when connected to my PC.

1. What was the message?
2. How can I remove the write-protection?
3. Is there any way of accessing internal storage from Ubuntu?

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Rob1n	2010-02-23 , 11:08
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Originally Posted by olemagnuskarlsen

Hi all.

I seem to have a little trouble. After copying some large mp3's (audio books) from External microSD to internal memory, I briefly became aware a warning (or just a) message.

"Something something jadajadajada... and will now be write-protected (and then for some reason I didn't read before it disappeared)".

So, i have a partally write-protected internal memory. Documents folder basically I think. And the internal storage is no longer accessible when connected to my PC.

1. What was the message?
2. How can I remove the write-protection?
3. Is there any way of accessing internal storage from Ubuntu?

Not sure exactly what the message says, but I think it indicates that the filesystem has become corrupt. You should be able to fix that with the following (you'll need rootsh installed):

Code:

sudo gainroot
umount /home/user/MyDocs
fsck.vfat /dev/mmcblk0p1
mount /home/user/MyDocs

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olemagnuskarlsen	2010-02-23 , 11:23
Posts: 6 \| Thanked: 1 time \| Joined on Feb 2010 @ ålesund	#3

Originally Posted by olemagnuskarlsen

1. What was the message?
2. How can I remove the write-protection?
3. Is there any way of accessing internal storage from Ubuntu?

I found that the problem was in a faulty insall of Easy-chroot-deb.

The message was displayed after trying to execute program synaptic-package-manager.

There was this error message also:

Code:

E: unable to write to /var/cache/apt/
E: The package list or status file could not me parsed or opened.
E: _cache->open()failed, please report.

W: Not using locking for read only file /var/lib/dpkg/lock]

1. (Translated from the norwegian message i got):
"Memory is write-protected untill it is repeared. Try to fix the memory using a USB cable connected to a PC. Backup all data before you preserve the excisting content in the memory"
2. Uninstall Easy-chroot-deb
3. After uninstalling 2. , just use USB as usual