Re: Z hangs on apt-*

[Jeff Elkins <jeffelkins@earthlink.net>]

On Tuesday 21 October 2003 11:07 am, Joerg Sommer wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I installed a Debian root on a SD card, but when I run apt-get ... it
>starts "Reading package list", but it hangs. 

Quoting from http://pocketworkstation.org/

>>
On my Zaurus, operations that write lots of data to the MMC card often crash 
the Zaurus - it's still pingable, but the filesystem is dead. A typical 
symptom is "apt-get install" getting stuck at the "Getting package 
information..." stage. I think this is bug in the MMC/SD driver, everything 
works fine on a microdrive.

Mounting the SD/MMC card in synchronous write mode makes things very slow, but 
helps prevent these crashes:

mount /dev/mmcda1 -o remount,sync,noatime

Don Leuenberger reported that running a background sync loop during the 
installation also helps prevent crashes: 

	while true; do sync; sleep 1; done &
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Haven't had that problem yet myself...

Jeff Elkins