Hi there. I began a Debian/FreeRunner installation discussion on openmoko-community, but now realize (from the wiki page) that I should be sending here instead, so...
My situation is that I have just performed a complete, vanilla Debian install from scratch, and I find that GSM isn't working. I installed with: QI=true SD_SWAP_SIZE=512 TASKS= ./install.sh all And the symptoms of GSM not working are that - Zhone briefly says "Usage: Requested resource GSM with error" (or a permutation of those words) - Zhone's phone, messages and contacts buttons stay greyed out. I've rebooted several times since reinstallation, so it isn't a first-boot problem. GSM works fine on OM2009/Paroli (in NAND), so it isn't a SIM-seating problem. I don't have a PIN, so it isn't a PIN entry problem. Any ideas? I wonder if I've got all the packages installed that I should have: debian-gta02:~# dpkg -l *fso* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ un fso-abyss <none> (no description available) un fso-config <none> (no description available) ii fso-config-gta 20090224-1 configuration files for Openmoko GTA02 Neo F ii fso-frameworkd 0.9.5.9+git200 freesmartphone.org Framework Daemon un fso-frameworkd <none> (no description available) ii fso-gpsd 0.8-3 gpsd compatibility daemon for the freesmarpt ii fso-gsm0710mux 0.9.3.1-3 GSM 07.10 Multiplexer un fso-sounds <none> (no description available) ii fso-sounds-yue 20081031-2 Yue base ringtones for the freesmartphone.or un fso-sounds-yue <none> (no description available) un fso-usaged <none> (no description available) ii fso-utils 0.git20090919. Useful tools for the freesmartphone.org syst ii pkg-fso-keyrin 2009.09.12 GnuPG archive key of the pkg-fso Debian repo debian-gta02:~# dpkg -l *one* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii libphone-utils 0.1+git2009080 library for basic phone operations un oneko <none> (no description available) ii python-phoneut 0.1+git2009080 python bindings for libphone-utils ii zhone 0-git20090610- freesmartphone.org demo GUI ii zhone-illume-g 0-git20090610- freesmartphone.org demo GUI - Illume interac un zhone-session <none> (no description available) In particular I've been hearing recently about fso-usaged, fso-abyss and ophonekitd, and none of these is installed. Is that a problem? Thanks, Neil PS. For completeness and the possibility of linking up with the openmoko-community trail, here's my last message there - but I don't believe it contains any more useful information than I've stated above. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Neil Jerram <neiljer...@googlemail.com> Date: 2009/10/13 Subject: Re: [debian] unexpected troubles To: List for Openmoko community discussion <commun...@lists.openmoko.org> 2009/10/13 Joshua Judson Rosen <roz...@geekspace.com>: > Neil Jerram <neiljer...@googlemail.com> writes: >> >> 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: Many thanks for your reply. >> - 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. Thanks, I didn't know that. I followed up on the D state, and found that it usually indicates a kernel or device driver problem. Based on that, and the facts that I had to shutdown several times by pulling the battery out, and that the way I installed Debian wasn't completely vanilla (I tried to install into an existing partition), I decided that it would probably be a good idea to reinstall from scratch, and I've now done that. > 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)? I'm afraid I didn't check these before reinstalling. > Do you have a swap partition (or file)? Are you running from the > internal NAND flash, or a micro-SD card? I was running from the first partition of a micro-SD card. No swap partition, but post-installation I had prepared a 200Mb swap file on /dev/mmcblk0p2. I hadn't added a mount and swapon for this to /etc/rc.local, so it wasn't being used during the boot. I did the mount and swapon later - I think after I'd already tried starting Emacs, and that had hung - and it didn't appear to make any difference (apart from top reporting the available swap). >> - 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 That looks like a red herring / misunderstanding to me. IIUC, it was resolved some months ago by an apm-emulation script that calls the dbus API. Post-reinstall, openmoko-panel-plugin is showing a believable battery status, and responds to plugging in the USB cable, and I'm pretty sure that it did that for a while after my first install too. So I guess I must have broken it by one of my first install experiments. >> - ssh (via USB) not working. The desktop end looks fine: Similar situation here. Post-reinstall, working fine. So, right now I've reinstalled from scratch, with QI=true SD_SWAP_SIZE=512 TASKS= ./install.sh all My problem now is no GSM - which was also the case after my previous install - with the symptoms being that - Zhone briefly says "Usage: Requested resource GSM with error" (or a permutation of those words) - Zhone's phone, messages and contacts buttons stay greyed out. I've rebooted twice since reinstallation, so it isn't a first-boot problem. GSM works fine on OM2009/Paroli (in NAND), so it isn't a SIM-seating problem. I don't have a PIN, so it isn't a PIN entry problem. Any ideas? I wonder if I've got all the packages installed that I should have: debian-gta02:~# dpkg -l *fso* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ un fso-abyss <none> (no description available) un fso-config <none> (no description available) ii fso-config-gta 20090224-1 configuration files for Openmoko GTA02 Neo F ii fso-frameworkd 0.9.5.9+git200 freesmartphone.org Framework Daemon un fso-frameworkd <none> (no description available) ii fso-gpsd 0.8-3 gpsd compatibility daemon for the freesmarpt ii fso-gsm0710mux 0.9.3.1-3 GSM 07.10 Multiplexer un fso-sounds <none> (no description available) ii fso-sounds-yue 20081031-2 Yue base ringtones for the freesmartphone.or un fso-sounds-yue <none> (no description available) un fso-usaged <none> (no description available) ii fso-utils 0.git20090919. Useful tools for the freesmartphone.org syst ii pkg-fso-keyrin 2009.09.12 GnuPG archive key of the pkg-fso Debian repo debian-gta02:~# dpkg -l *one* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii libphone-utils 0.1+git2009080 library for basic phone operations un oneko <none> (no description available) ii python-phoneut 0.1+git2009080 python bindings for libphone-utils ii zhone 0-git20090610- freesmartphone.org demo GUI ii zhone-illume-g 0-git20090610- freesmartphone.org demo GUI - Illume interac un zhone-session <none> (no description available) In particular I've been hearing recently about fso-usaged, fso-abyss and ophonekitd, and none of these is installed. Is that a problem? Thanks, Neil _______________________________________________ Smartphones-userland mailing list Smartphones-userland@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/smartphones-userland