akita + 3.5.4.1-RC4 : almost bricked : had to restore NAND

Olivier Berger <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.openzaurus.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi.

I'd like to report some strange behaviour I've had with my akita, on
which I had installed 3.5.4.1-RC4.

I've been testing a little bit, and at some point, probably after
having resumed from suspend, the machine was unresponsive...

I did a reset and rebooted, which only went til a certain point where
I would only see a black screen, and the machine quite stuck...

The "disk activity"/mail led had been flicking for a while then
nothing.

Only suspend and resume would do something, but apart from that plain
black screen (although lit)...

I tried and re-flash the gpe image, and it unfortunately didn't help :
same problem...

I don't have any clue of what went wrong, but I didn't play alot with
it, so it seems like there may be a nasty bug somewhere around...

I've restored NAND then reinstalled and will pray for not meeting the
same problem again (or this time be able to provide more debug
disagnostics ? ;)

I hope that if someone faces the same, it would help confirm I didn't
dream and it's not my fault also ;)


Anyway, the fact that the boot process won't provide any diagnostics
until messages from altboot may be pretty fine for a long-tested
stable release, but I seem it's a bit premature now considering the
novelty of 3.5.4.x on clamshell models. What d'you think ?

Best regards,
-- 
Olivier BERGER (OpenPGP: 1024D/B4C5F37F)
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