Re: Write access for MMC

[James Knott]

Shivkumar Chandrasekaran wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 21:02 +0200, Damien Challet wrote:
>> On Tuesday 14 October 2008 20.48:40 James Knott wrote:
>>> Shivkumar Chandrasekaran wrote:
 Hi,

 I have a 770 with OS2007 Hacker's edition with a 1GB removable card.
 Everything worked fine until yesterday when I suddenly lost write-access
 to the card. So I can no longer do backups or write or remove files from
 the File Manager. I tried connecting it to my Linux machine using the
 USB cable, but the Linux machine also insists that the file system on
 the USB drive is read-only (so I could not delete files for example from
 linux terminal, even with super-user permission).

 Can anyone give me some advice so that I can re-acquire write access?
>> the file system card can be corrupted and needs an fsck.
> 
> Any idea how I can do that? When I chose "Memory card -> mmc2 ->
> Format ..." from File Manager it tells me that the memory card is in
> use. I tried booting up without the memory card and then inserted it
> later to no effect.

Do you have a separate card reader?  If so, plug it in there to work on 
it.  Or if you connect it via USB cable to another computer, is it then 
available?  Either way, copy all the files off it, before doing anything 
that writes to it.


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Re: Write access for MMC

[James Knott]

Shivkumar Chandrasekaran wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 14:48 -0400, James Knott wrote:
>> Shivkumar Chandrasekaran wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a 770 with OS2007 Hacker's edition with a 1GB removable card.
>>> Everything worked fine until yesterday when I suddenly lost write-access
>>> to the card. So I can no longer do backups or write or remove files from
>>> the File Manager. I tried connecting it to my Linux machine using the
>>> USB cable, but the Linux machine also insists that the file system on
>>> the USB drive is read-only (so I could not delete files for example from
>>> linux terminal, even with super-user permission).
>>>
>>> Can anyone give me some advice so that I can re-acquire write access?
>> Check the write enable switch, located on the edge of the card.
>>
> 
> I have a SanDisk RS-MMC 1GB and it does not appear to have any moving
> parts. (It was the first thing I looked for. :-(

Well then, it must be fscked up.  Try running fsck on it to check file 
system integrity.


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Re: Write access for MMC

[Damien Challet]

> Any idea how I can do that? 

dosfsck, if available to you, or put the card in a card reader and use a 
desktop to do it.

> When I chose "Memory card -> mmc2 -> 
> Format ..." from File Manager it tells me that the memory card is in
> use. I tried booting up without the memory card and then inserted it
> later to no effect.

disable swap, and then format the card.

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Re: Write access for MMC

[Shivkumar Chandrasekaran]

On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 21:02 +0200, Damien Challet wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 October 2008 20.48:40 James Knott wrote:
> > Shivkumar Chandrasekaran wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have a 770 with OS2007 Hacker's edition with a 1GB removable card.
> > > Everything worked fine until yesterday when I suddenly lost write-access
> > > to the card. So I can no longer do backups or write or remove files from
> > > the File Manager. I tried connecting it to my Linux machine using the
> > > USB cable, but the Linux machine also insists that the file system on
> > > the USB drive is read-only (so I could not delete files for example from
> > > linux terminal, even with super-user permission).
> > >
> > > Can anyone give me some advice so that I can re-acquire write access?
> 
> the file system card can be corrupted and needs an fsck.

Any idea how I can do that? When I chose "Memory card -> mmc2 ->
Format ..." from File Manager it tells me that the memory card is in
use. I tried booting up without the memory card and then inserted it
later to no effect.

Thanks,

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Re: Write access for MMC

[Shivkumar Chandrasekaran]

On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 14:48 -0400, James Knott wrote:
> Shivkumar Chandrasekaran wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have a 770 with OS2007 Hacker's edition with a 1GB removable card.
> > Everything worked fine until yesterday when I suddenly lost write-access
> > to the card. So I can no longer do backups or write or remove files from
> > the File Manager. I tried connecting it to my Linux machine using the
> > USB cable, but the Linux machine also insists that the file system on
> > the USB drive is read-only (so I could not delete files for example from
> > linux terminal, even with super-user permission).
> > 
> > Can anyone give me some advice so that I can re-acquire write access?
> 
> Check the write enable switch, located on the edge of the card.
> 

I have a SanDisk RS-MMC 1GB and it does not appear to have any moving
parts. (It was the first thing I looked for. :-(

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Re: Removing Modest from Diablo

[Tuukka Tolvanen]

On 10.10.2008 19:32, Michael Flaig wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 05:46 -0700, Tim Ashman wrote:
>> I so can't stand modest in diablo that I wish to remove it.
>>
>> I tried apt-get remove modest
>>
>> but the system warned me that it was basically going to uninstall a ton of
>> other stuff that I actually still want.
>
> I would think that means the other stuff you still want depends on
> modest and uses it in some way, or the dependencies are just very wide.

http://mxr.maemo.org/diablo/source/osso-email-interface-2008.11.1/ossoemailinterface.h#39
 
probably explains what's happening.

Arguably it's silly that that's a hard dependency; of course if the apps 
don't quite gracefully handle the lack of an email client to call then 
it's not a packaging bug.

> ~ # LC_ALL=C apt-get remove --purge modest
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer 
> required:
>initfs-flasher kernel-diablo-flasher flash-and-reboot
> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>camera-test* hildon-application-framework-rx34-rx44*
>libosso-email-interface* microphone-test* modest* multimedia-applications*
>osso-filemanager* osso-filemanager-ui* osso-global-search* 
> osso-imageviewer*
>osso-software-version-rx44*
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 11 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B of archives.
> After unpacking 2572kB disk space will be freed.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
>
> Based on this output I would think it is indeed very unwise to remove
> modest, because those packages above depend on modest directly or
> indirectly.
>
> I'm guessing here, you can verify this if you like:
> I think osso-software-version-rx44 depends on modest directly and other
> packages like osso-filemanager depend on osso-software-version-rx44.
>
> To make osso-software-version-rx44 something like ubuntu-desktop the
> dependencies on osso-software-version-rx44 need to be removed in the
> other packages.

just for the record,

~ $ apt-cache rdepends osso-software-version-rx44
osso-software-version-rx44
Reverse Depends:
~ $ apt-cache rdepends modest
modest
Reverse Depends:
   osso-software-version-rx44-unlocked
   osso-software-version-rx34-unlocked
   osso-software-version-rx44
   libosso-email-interface
   osso-software-version-rx34
~ $ apt-cache rdepends libosso-email-interface
libosso-email-interface
Reverse Depends:
   maemo-recorder
   osso-software-version-rx44-unlocked
   osso-software-version-rx34-unlocked
   osso-software-version-rx44
   osso-imageviewer
   osso-global-search
   osso-filemanager-ui
   microphone-test
   camera-test
   osso-software-version-rx34
   camera
~ $

etc.

't.
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Re: Write access for MMC

[Damien Challet]

On Tuesday 14 October 2008 20.48:40 James Knott wrote:
> Shivkumar Chandrasekaran wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a 770 with OS2007 Hacker's edition with a 1GB removable card.
> > Everything worked fine until yesterday when I suddenly lost write-access
> > to the card. So I can no longer do backups or write or remove files from
> > the File Manager. I tried connecting it to my Linux machine using the
> > USB cable, but the Linux machine also insists that the file system on
> > the USB drive is read-only (so I could not delete files for example from
> > linux terminal, even with super-user permission).
> >
> > Can anyone give me some advice so that I can re-acquire write access?

the file system card can be corrupted and needs an fsck.


 
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Re: Write access for MMC

[James Knott]

James Knott wrote:
> Shivkumar Chandrasekaran wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a 770 with OS2007 Hacker's edition with a 1GB removable card.
>> Everything worked fine until yesterday when I suddenly lost write-access
>> to the card. So I can no longer do backups or write or remove files from
>> the File Manager. I tried connecting it to my Linux machine using the
>> USB cable, but the Linux machine also insists that the file system on
>> the USB drive is read-only (so I could not delete files for example from
>> linux terminal, even with super-user permission).
>>
>> Can anyone give me some advice so that I can re-acquire write access?
> 
> Check the write enable switch, located on the edge of the card.
> 

Forgot to mention, you may want to run fsck on the file system, to make 
sure it's not corrupt.


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Re: Write access for MMC

[James Knott]

Shivkumar Chandrasekaran wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a 770 with OS2007 Hacker's edition with a 1GB removable card.
> Everything worked fine until yesterday when I suddenly lost write-access
> to the card. So I can no longer do backups or write or remove files from
> the File Manager. I tried connecting it to my Linux machine using the
> USB cable, but the Linux machine also insists that the file system on
> the USB drive is read-only (so I could not delete files for example from
> linux terminal, even with super-user permission).
> 
> Can anyone give me some advice so that I can re-acquire write access?

Check the write enable switch, located on the edge of the card.

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Write access for MMC

[Shivkumar Chandrasekaran]

Hi,

I have a 770 with OS2007 Hacker's edition with a 1GB removable card.
Everything worked fine until yesterday when I suddenly lost write-access
to the card. So I can no longer do backups or write or remove files from
the File Manager. I tried connecting it to my Linux machine using the
USB cable, but the Linux machine also insists that the file system on
the USB drive is read-only (so I could not delete files for example from
linux terminal, even with super-user permission).

Can anyone give me some advice so that I can re-acquire write access?

Thanks in advance,

--shiv--



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Re: Removing Modest from Diablo

[Denis Dimick]

Without going into details, let's just say, re-install from scratch.

It's amazing, after all these years using Linux, I can still manage to screw
up a system so bad. ;)

I guess that's what's so fun about Linux, every time you feel like learning
something new, you have to tools to do it.

HtH,

Denis

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 7:41 AM, Matt Emson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Denis Dimick wrote:
>
>> You could do a force, but your not going to like what happens.
>>
>>
>
> Non bootable self destructing system by any chance? Saw that happen  trying
> to force an older version of gcc to install in Chinook. Ouch!
>
> M
>



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