On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 09:50:29AM +0100, Tom Yates wrote: > On Fri, 7 May 2010, Martin Jansa wrote: > > >On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 10:02:58AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > >>Tom Yates wrote: > >>> > >>>so i want to reimage my freerunner from the latest rootfs and > >>>kernel images, and then retry the fixes. > >> > >>You can try, but I am not sure it will help. Linux systems don't > >>tend to deteriorate with time, so a "fresh install" tend to be > >>no better than something old. And vice-versa. (Unlike windows, I > >>have heard that it somehow "goes bad" with time - which seems > >>strange to me.) > >> > >There are few more issues which come with image age. > > > >1) Badly merged config when opkg says that new config is > >different and user should merge it with his own. > > that's the particular one i had in mind, but thanks for outlining > some of the others. (2) in particular had escaped me.
I also forgot another: when 2 packages conflicts, than sometimes someone remove the wrong one and right one is not installed. > helge, thank you for the terminal focus workaround. sadly it > doesn't yet solve my major problem, which is restarting > shr_elm_softkey without an attached linux box - because i can't > switch focus until shr_elm_softkey is working! you can, jump back to Home, click on terminal icon again and you will be switched with focus. Or add delay to Xsession script with sed -i 's#^DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/bin/shr_elm_softkey#sh -c "sleep 20 \&\& /usr/bin/shr_elm_softkey"#g' /etc/X11/Xsession.d/89shr_elm_softkey as suggested by [email protected] in [email protected] thread: latest SHR unstable: neo theme not working well, can't close apps anymore, qwo keyboard breaks starter Regards, -- uin:136542059 jid:[email protected] Jansa Martin sip:[email protected] JaMa _______________________________________________ Shr-User mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-user
