Upgrading on Qtopia

[Aaron Sowry]

Matthew Lane wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I've read that opkg can't upgrade qtopia, but it should be able to 
> upgrade my kernel, correct?
>
> Well, when I do opkg update, opkg upgrade my phone will spend about 
> 20-30 minutes updating everything (from the latest qtopia image on 
> trolltech's website) and I need a lot of those packages (such as 
> libc++6) for running other scripts on qtopia.  Anyways, after upgrading, 
> I restart my phone and it freezes on the blank black screen with a 
> cursor in the upper left corner.  The phone won't ever boot!  So I have 
> to reflash the lastest image I just tried to upgrade.  I've attempted 
> this twice, and I can't upgrade my phone!
>
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Thank you - I thought I was the only one. I registered this as a bug on 
Trac (https://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1756) but more or less got 
told to go ask Trolltech about it, which is fair enough I suppose. It 
would still be nice to get a fix for this however.

Aaron