Re: Z hangs on apt-*

* Jeff Elkins ([email protected]) wrote:
> 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...

It _is_ mounted -o nolock, right?
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