Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Made your system writeable? Is your disk full? OTA might break

2015-07-20 Thread Marco A. Harrendorf
Hello John, Am Freitag, 17. Juli 2015 14:34:16 BST schrieb John McAleely: With the release of OTA-4 a few weeks ago, we received a few reports of problems where the handset would get stuck in a boot loop, or refuse to boot past the initial logo. One root cause we have established is when the

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Made your system writeable? Is your disk full? OTA might break

2015-07-17 Thread Andrea Bernabei
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Rodney Dawes rodney.da...@canonical.com wrote: If you really need to install some command line tools on your phone for some reason, or you need to compile something on your phone, the best way to do it, is with a chroot on the data partition, rather than by

[Ubuntu-phone] Made your system writeable? Is your disk full? OTA might break

2015-07-17 Thread John McAleely
With the release of OTA-4 a few weeks ago, we received a few reports of problems where the handset would get stuck in a boot loop, or refuse to boot past the initial logo. One root cause we have established is when the system partition has run out of space. Given that the supported model for

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Made your system writeable? Is your disk full? OTA might break

2015-07-17 Thread Rodney Dawes
If you really need to install some command line tools on your phone for some reason, or you need to compile something on your phone, the best way to do it, is with a chroot on the data partition, rather than by making the root partition, which has very limited space, writable. See my answer to

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Made your system writeable? Is your disk full? OTA might break

2015-07-17 Thread Rodney Dawes
On Fri, 2015-07-17 at 15:30 +0100, Andrea Bernabei wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Rodney Dawes rodney.da...@canonical.com wrote: If you really need to install some command line tools on your phone for some reason, or you need to compile something on your

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Made your system writeable? Is your disk full? OTA might break

2015-07-17 Thread Matthias Apitz
El viernes, 17 de julio de 2015 18:02:43 (CEST), John McAleely escribió: On 17 July 2015 at 15:56, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: I do not have / writable: $ mount | fgrep ' / ' /dev/mmcblk0p6 on / type ext4 (ro,relatime,data=ordered) It is not meaningful to know the current

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Made your system writeable? Is your disk full? OTA might break

2015-07-17 Thread John McAleely
On 17 July 2015 at 15:56, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: I do not have / writable: $ mount | fgrep ' / ' /dev/mmcblk0p6 on / type ext4 (ro,relatime,data=ordered) It is not meaningful to know the current status of the partition. If it has *ever* been writable, something may have