Re: [Gumstix-users] Garbage out on new filesystem

[Don in M. <Do...@ro...>]

Just to qualify the rather silly-sounding statement below, I did find the
stable builds at sourceforge, but since they're from November of last year,
I assumed they'd been left for dead, and there's a more recent source of
stable builds somewhere.  As I think about it, the latest version of trunk
is probably not it, hey?  >;\

Don


Don in Montreal wrote:
> 
> Is it possible I shouldn't be using the latest version of Trunk?  A little
> lazy to be asking here, I know, but in my reading so far, I haven't found
> where "stable" builds are identified.  Is trunk supposedly always stable?
> 
> Thanks,
> D
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Dave Hylands wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Don,
>> 
>>> I've got a new hint to add to the pile: if I let the GumStix sit there
>>> for
>>> about 5 minutes at the (garbled) login prompt, it re-sends the login
>>> prompt
>>> several times, always garbled, until about 5 minutes pass - then the
>>> prompt
>>> gets sent ungarbled, I can log in, and everything seems to work fine
>>> after
>>> that.
>> 
>> I've had this happen to me when I plug in the cable after the gumstix
>> has booted. The act of plugging in the cab;e often generates noise and
>> confuses getty.
>> 
>> I normally send a break (every terminal program seems to have a
>> different way of doing this) and then wait a few seconds and repeat.
>> It normally takes me less than a minute to get back to a normal
>> prompt.
>> 
>> Also, sometimes noise will cause the terminal software to get confused
>> and some letters will show up as box outline characters and whatnot.
>> When this happens, I typically need to reset the terminal software
>> (with some programs you need to quit and restart).
>> 
>> -- 
>> Dave Hylands
>> Vancouver, BC, Canada
>> http://www.DaveHylands.com/
>> 
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