Neil Jerram <neiljer...@googlemail.com> writes: > > Hi there... > > Is this generally the best place for Debian questions? Or is > smartphones-userland better? > > I've just installed Debian again, and am surprised to be experiencing > some low-level problems. Hopefully they are easily fixable.
I'll try addressing the issues that I can: > As context, what I'm aiming at is: > - Debian - for the best available package management > - E17 + Illume - for Raster's keyboard, decent launcher and easy > switching between windows > - John Sullivan's fso-el - for performing phone functions from within Emacs. > > I've installed e17, and the UI comes up as expected. I set an overall > scaling factor of 2, to make everything easier to read and press. > > The problems I'm seeing now are: > > - Load average unreasonably high. Right now, for example, my top says > "load average: 8.11, 8.13, 8.09". Yet CPU usage is only reaching > around 6%. Do you perhaps have a bunch of processes waiting on disk I/O? Maybe waiting to be paged-in from swap? How many processes are in uninterruptible sleep (`D') state? These also contribute to the load-counts, in Linux. What does vmstat say (I usually run "vmstat 2")? What are your top memory-consuming processes (in terms of both real and virtual memory footprint)? Do you have a swap partition (or file)? Are you running from the internal NAND flash, or a micro-SD card? > - Emacs never appears, yet can't be killed. E.g. I clicked on the > launcher icon for Emacs about an hour ago, and nothing has appeared > yet. "ps waux" shows that there is an emacs process: > > root 1579 0.0 3.2 25700 3952 ? DNs 17:44 0:00 /usr/bin/emacs23 Aha--well, there's at least /one/ process in uninterruptible-sleep state :) > But "kill 1579" and "kill -9 1579" seem to have no effect on this. The signal cannot be processed until the system call that is blocking the process finishes. > - Battery not apparently charging. I'm using the USB lead from > another Linux computer, which successfully charges OM2009/Paroli and > SHR. But with Debian there is no + on the battery icon, and no orange > (or blue) light behind the power button. There's mention of issues with APM on the DebianOnFreeRunner Debian Wiki page: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianOnFreeRunner#KnownProblems > - ssh (via USB) not working. The desktop end looks fine: While I'm very familiar with Debian on more traditional systems, I'm not all that familiar with it as people run it on the FreeRunner. However, as far as USB networking with Linux on the FreeRunner goes: Is the `g_ether' module loaded on the FreeRunner? Is the usb-ethernet interface configured on the FreeRunner? > n...@arudy:~$ netstat -rn > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface > 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 > 192.168.11.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 > 0.0.0.0 192.168.11.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 > > but > > n...@arudy:~$ ssh 192.168.0.202 -l root > ssh: connect to host 192.168.0.202 port 22: No route to host What do ifconfig and route say on the FreeRunner? -- Don't be afraid to ask (Lf.((Lx.xx) (Lr.f(rr)))). _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community