ipkg broken

[GabrieleV]

I wa trying to install transmission, ad because it failed to start with the error
 can't load library 'libssl.so.1.0.0'
I tried to update Alt-F package list, and started to upgrade all of them.
Once I have updated ipkg, the Packages\Alt-F page now show only:

 ipkg-cl: can't resolve symbol '__stdin'

 No ipkg instalation found, install ipkg in:

When I try to install again, I get

Alt-F already exists, you shouldn't supply a mountpoint.
ipkg-cl: can't resolve symbol '__stdin'
ipkg-cl: can't resolve symbol '__stdin'
ipkg: can't umount aufs branch, stopping services and retrying...
ipkg: can't umount aufs branch, exiting.

No way to go on ...

I'm using Alt-F 0.1B7, DO I need to update to RC2 ?

[GabrieleV]

I had to reboot my box, and now my partitions are mounted ext3 and RO, and no USB hard disk is detected !
Wow, I've done a great job :-( :-(

[Joao Cardoso]

Yes, you have to upgrade.

If you don't want to upgrade to RC2 you have to use the previous version of the packages and install manually.

You can find them in http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1555717/DNS-323/Alt-F/pkgs/unstable/index.html 

For transmission you have to use transmission_2.41 (or transmission_2.33, notice the dates)

 transmission_2.33_arm.ipk 571 KB 2011-10-13 19:20

 transmission_2.41_arm.ipk 550 KB 2011-10-24 01:07

 transmission_2.42_arm.ipk 550 KB 2012-02-21 19:33

 

For ushare, that does not had a new release (only a new developer release) you have to use ushare_1.1a-2

 ushare_1.1a-1_arm.ipk 30 KB 2011-03-25 19:38

 ushare_1.1a-2_arm.ipk 30 KB 2011-10-13 19:20

 ushare_1.1a-3_arm.ipk 30 KB 2012-02-21 19:33

There is no way, to my knowledge, to assign a specific package version to a specific Alt-F release... hmmm, I could have different 'Packages' files, one for each different Alt-F releases... but I'm not doing to do that.

The increase in developer releases are due to changes in the standard C library, and that was due to an attempt to make compatibility with Optware packages. As I gave up definitively solving that issue, the standard c library is not likely to change anymore.

(The ushare dates mark Alt-F releases dates that had changes in the standard C library)

[Joao Cardoso]

On Monday, March 19, 2012 4:07:56 PM UTC, GabrieleV wrote:

I had to reboot my box, and now my partitions are mounted ext3 and RO, and no USB hard disk is detected !
Wow, I've done a great job :-( :-(

 

Probably because you updated packages and not Alt-F? The RO means that fsck returned an error (such as not fsck unable to execute)

[GabrieleV]

Hy,
I have updated to RC2, but the usb hard disk was not detected. Had to poweroff the box and the usb hdd, and restart again everything.
Now the hdd was detected, but /etc/fstab was still with the ext3 and RO for the partitions of the internal disk.
Had to do some manual editing to system files to get things working.
About transmission, it does not configures :-( I had to dump the config manually, and commenting the checks in the initd startup file to get it working ...

Waiting for the next reboot ;)

[Joao Cardoso (Alt-F)]

On Monday 19 March 2012 09:41:44 Joao Cardoso wrote:
> On Monday, March 19, 2012 4:07:56 PM UTC, GabrieleV wrote:

> > I had to reboot my box, and no USB hard disk is detected !

You probably had kernel-modules package installed, and when you updated it the
new USB-storage module does not load with the RC1 kernel.

You have an "UpdateAll" button, did you noticed it?

[GabrieleV]

You probably had kernel-modules package installed

Mmmh, I didn't noticed that I have installed it, and now it's not installed.
 

 

You have an "UpdateAll" button, did you noticed it?

No bulk update for me ;) !