Comments on: Ubuntu Mobile on an OLPC XO

By: omnia

omnia — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:21:55 +0000

Hi,
I followed all of these steps but when I reboot my olpc it is blocked in ” Loading ramdisk image from /pci/sd@c,1/disk:\boot\olpcrd.img…”.
please can anyone help me?
thanks a lot

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LATHE OF DREAMS » Post Topic » Whither OLPC XO with what OS: Ubuntu? — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:43:21 +0000

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By: nrp

nrp — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:28:18 +0000

This is a relatively ancient HOWTO. I’d be surprised if it still functioned. One of these days, I’ll write a new one, but until then, you’re better off just using XFCE or something similar.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XFCE

By: Terrence

Terrence — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:00:56 +0000

I can’t seem to get GDM, Hildon, or anything else to start up either under QEMU or on the OLPC. Everything goes smoothly until then. GDM simply doesn’t launch during boot, it says [OK] when ‘Starting GNOME Display Manager’ during boot, but never actually succeeds in launching.

After logging in to the command line if I try to start GDM manually I get the following error:

gdm[4719]: WARNING: GDM file gdm-daemon-config.c: line 2033 (): Cannot run seteuid to 0: Operation not permitted
GDM file gdm-daemon-config.c: line 2033 (): Cannot run seteuid to 0: Operation not permitted

then kicked back to the command line. any ideas?

By: nrp

nrp — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:48:37 +0000

Rob, I guess I should have been less vague. Shutting down is always a good idea to prevent filesystem corruption. Also, older versions of Sugar such as that which came with G1G1 XOs have a bug where they will corrupt ext2 and ext3 filesystems on SD cards on suspend. So, update to something newer if its getting corrupt after going into your XO.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:17:16 +0000

I’m still having problems in which something along the way causes damage to the filesystem. It seems like everything worked and then I find out that the disk is crap. Has anyone else had the problem and figured out what causes it and when it happens? In what part of the process is it safe to close the qemu window? Does prematurely closing it cause damage?

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:56:00 +0000

Great instructions by the way! I recommend also installing the kqemu kernel module for speed.

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:40:12 +0000

Please note: fsck is the solution to the above problem. But more importantly, don’t just close the emulator! As root, type “shutdown -h now” in Qemu instead of closing the window. This was what I suspected, but I stupidly had just closed the emulator and it caused damage to the filesystem.

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:21:10 +0000

I just noticed Jack (above) had the same problem I had at the tune2fs stage. He says he started over and did the tune2fs earlier in the process. I wonder if there is any way to get around having to start over (it took a long time to install Ubuntu using the emulator).