Re: ipkg corruption?

"Justin Patrin" <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:55:22 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.openzaurus.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 4/10/07, Spiros Kapetanakis <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> with thelp from this list, I have revived my Z5500.
>
> I managed to download a package or two from the command-line ipkg tool
> and all was going well. At some point, I wanted to install another
> package and tried to find it in the feed browser. The package was
> gpe-mini-browser which is part of base. I did:
>
> ipkg install gpe-mini-browser
>
> half-expecting it to just work but it failed with some error code,
> suggesting I should do an update of the ipkg cache. So, I did. The
> update itself failed with error code 6. Since then, nothing works.
> ipkg is simply not updating, downloading or installing anything.
>
> Is it possible that the ipkg cache has been corrupted? If so, how do I
> clean it out? Has anyone else seen this problem?

Or perhaps you've just filled up your flash. What does 'df' tell you?


-- 
Justin Patrin

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