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List:       familiar
Subject:    Re: [Familiar] Fatal ipkg upgrade (from familiar-base 5.0-41 to 5.1)
From:       Florian Erfurth <floh-erfurth () freenet ! de>
Date:       2004-08-28 18:02:50
Message-ID: 1093716170.5374.2.camel () Athlon
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I suspect, there is a bad bug. :/ I updated-upgraded my PocketPC today.
After some times it turned itself off. Then I wanted to reboot, but it
hangs at boot. :( So I have to reflash my PocketPC.

I used familiar-0.7.2+unstable16 + opie(testing-1.1.4).

cu Floh;)

Am Sa, den 28.08.2004 schrieb Davide Patti um 20:04:
> Hi everybody, I use gpe unstable 16 on ipaq 5450.
> Today I noticed there was an update to the familiar-base package (5.0-41 
> to 5.1), so I did a :
> #ipkg update
> #ipkg upgrade
> 
> while upgrading familiar-base, it was asked to me if I wanted to replace 
> each of the following files [MY ANSWER] :
> 
> /etc/fstab [Yes]
> /etc/group [No]
> /etc/hosts [Yes, only a insignificant difference]
> /etc/hostname [No, there were no differencies]
> /etc/ld.so.conf [No, there were no differencies]
> /etc/nsswitch.conf [No, there were no differencies]
> /etc/passwd [No, of course !]
> /etc/profile [No, there were no differencies]
> 
> Now, after a reboot, my ipaq 5450 only shows a dark screen with gpe 
> splash logo. Nothing more happens.
> I don't think that the two files that I decided to overwrite can be 
> responsible of that, but I don't know what to do to access to my ipaq.
> I tried to hard reset, to remove battery, but it just stops after gpe 
> spash logo.
> Any suggestion ?
> PS. the differencies introduced by familiar-base upgrade can be fount at 
> : http://cvs.handhelds.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/familiar/dist/base/
> 
> 
> 


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