Okay. If you do find that X isn't starting and that /osh is empty, get a root terminal somehow (using adb, if it works, or Android Terminal Emulator, if it doesn't) and do the following:
I can't find a free loopback device?
Wow.
even after a reboot:
speaking of loops , i have not had much time to look at this part of atrix as of late , could we not mount and loop the sd card for the storage aka home dir and jsut use limited phone storage for the Ubuntu distro ?
... What the hell do you have running on that thing?
).Actually... if you're willing to try one more experiment, this might do it.
... What the hell do you have running on that thing?
Okay, this'll have to wait until I get home, then, when I'll be able to take a look at what it takes to create additional loop devices (although there's no guarantee that something else on your device won't eat those up too!
The Ubuntu home directory actually doesn't use that much space (I guess unless you surf an awful lot on the full Firefox?) and it's stored in /data. I suppose it would be possible to pull some stunts to have some of that kept outside of /data, but since it's not that large, there isn't much benefit. The other major user of /data is the Android OS (for downloaded applications and application data), and there isn't much we can do about that.
hmm, well that must be because of it running from xserve, on my other machines i always create another partition for my /home dir aka everything not the distro, that also enables me to update or change Ubuntu distro with out loosing data or settings
Yeah, on a desktop that makes sense. As I said, though, they've already done that here - /home is a symlink to /data/home, and /osh/home has little data in it (possibly the defaults to populate /data/home with).
I, also, would not mind donating at least a few bucks.Confirmed.
Each app moved to the "Media area" takes up a loopback device. So, the script can't run if you have 8 or more apps moved there. I'm guessing that Android handles the shuffling between the various lopback devices when you swap between them. It wouldn't surprise me if Android won't allow you to run all of those devices simultaneously, since it doesn't have the resources to let that happen.
Half asleep right now. Will try this while at work in the morning and report back. Learned a lot today lol.Confirmed.
Each app moved to the "Media area" takes up a loopback device. So, the script can't run if you have 8 or more apps moved there. I'm guessing that Android handles the shuffling between the various lopback devices when you swap between them. It wouldn't surprise me if Android won't allow you to run all of those devices simultaneously, since it doesn't have the resources to let that happen.
On the bright side, though, the filesystem file gets mounted in init.rc before the apps do, so even with 8+ apps, they don't interfere with this once it's installed. I'll update the first post with appropriate instructions, and I'll update the script as well so that it checks that /dev/block/loop7 is free before trying to use it.
Everything went smooth today!Confirmed.
Each app moved to the "Media area" takes up a loopback device. So, the script can't run if you have 8 or more apps moved there. I'm guessing that Android handles the shuffling between the various lopback devices when you swap between them. It wouldn't surprise me if Android won't allow you to run all of those devices simultaneously, since it doesn't have the resources to let that happen.
On the bright side, though, the filesystem file gets mounted in init.rc before the apps do, so even with 8+ apps, they don't interfere with this once it's installed. I'll update the first post with appropriate instructions, and I'll update the script as well so that it checks that /dev/block/loop7 is free before trying to use it.
