Fox Mulder <Quakeman1@gmx.net> writes:

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> I don't think that this behaviour is a real software bug because this
> situation shouldn't happen at all. So i don't think that there could be
> some patch to really fix this.
>
> And for me these situations you describe nearly never exist. The problem
> that the FR hangs occured for me only when the memory usage gets to the
> limit of the 128MB. But since i use a 64MB swapfile i never experienced
> it again. And my FR never loosed power since i got it. So i'm wondering
> what things you do to your FR. ;)

Bad things I suppose :)

The swap file sounds like a good idea. Did you put the swap partition on
the internal flash or the sd card? Intuitively it would appear to be
better to have the swap on internal flash, if the main os is on the sd
card.



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> I never lost my partition table and i only use debian for quite some
> weeks. Anbd i'm happy that the current OM kernel works with
> suspend/resume without problems.
>
> Ciao,
>      Rainer
>
> joakim@verona.se wrote:
>> Fox Mulder <Quakeman1@gmx.net> writes:
>> 
>>> What do you mean by shut down "unexpectedly" ?
>>>
>>> The sd-card corruption patch which is in the recent kernels fixes the
>>> sd-bug when going into suspend and resume which isn't unexpected.
>> 
>> Ok, what I mean is that if the FR hangs for some reason, looses power or
>> whatever, I must powercycle it to reboot it. When this happens the
>> debian part of the sd card is unbootable.
>> 
>> I can then normally rescue it with "testdisk".
>> 
>> I dont think I ever even tried suspend/resume on debian.
>> 
>>> joakim@verona.se wrote:
>>>> Fox Mulder <Quakeman1@gmx.net> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> The kernel shipped with debian has the corruption bug.
>>>>> To update your kernel you must do it by hand. The instruction how to do
>>>>> this is in the debian page in the openmoko wiki [1].
>>>>> I changed my /boot partition from vfat to ext2 and symlink the
>>>>> boot-kernel to the one i want to use because i switch between the actual
>>>>> OM and FSO kernels.
>>>> I followed the instructions and installed a new kernel. I still get the
>>>> corruption bug whenever I shut down the FR unexpectedly.
>>>>
>>>>> Ciao,
>>>>>      Rainer
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> [1]
>>>>> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Debian#How_to_replace_the_default_kernel_with_a_recent_o... joakim@verona.se wrote:
>>>>>> Fox Mulder <Quakeman1@gmx.net> writes:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Which kernel and from when do you use?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This bug should be fixed in newer kernels. But i still use the apm
>>>>>>> suspend/resume script which works for me since i installed debian.
>>>>>> Ok, how do I ensure I have a newer kernel? I just use the kernel shipped
>>>>>> with Debian, I think.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ciao,
>>>>>>>      Rainer
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> joakim@verona.se wrote:
>>>>>>>> It is rather annoying to fix the memory card whenever it gets corrupted
>>>>>>>> and wont boot. I know there are workaround scripts, but they dont work
>>>>>>>> for me, since I most often get corruption after booting after unexpected
>>>>>>>> power down.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Is there any progress on this bug? Any working workarounds ?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
-- 
Joakim Verona


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