Re: Z hangs on apt-*

[Jeff Elkins <jeffelkins@earthlink.net>]

On Tuesday 21 October 2003 1:09 pm, Jeff Elkins wrote:
>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 &
><<
>
>
>Haven't had that problem yet myself...
>
>Jeff Elkins

I should mention that I'm working from an NFS dir mounted on the 
zaurus...sorry...