[debian] State of annoying memory card corruption bug?

[Fox Mulder]

I don't think that this behaviour is a real software bug because this
situation shouldn't happen at all. So i don't think that there could be
some patch to really fix this.

And for me these situations you describe nearly never exist. The problem
that the FR hangs occured for me only when the memory usage gets to the
limit of the 128MB. But since i use a 64MB swapfile i never experienced
it again. And my FR never loosed power since i got it. So i'm wondering
what things you do to your FR. ;)
I never lost my partition table and i only use debian for quite some
weeks. Anbd i'm happy that the current OM kernel works with
suspend/resume without problems.

Ciao,
     Rainer

joakim at verona.se wrote:
> Fox Mulder <Quakeman1 at gmx.net> writes:
> 
>> What do you mean by shut down "unexpectedly" ?
>>
>> The sd-card corruption patch which is in the recent kernels fixes the
>> sd-bug when going into suspend and resume which isn't unexpected.
> 
> Ok, what I mean is that if the FR hangs for some reason, looses power or
> whatever, I must powercycle it to reboot it. When this happens the
> debian part of the sd card is unbootable.
> 
> I can then normally rescue it with "testdisk".
> 
> I dont think I ever even tried suspend/resume on debian.
> 
>> joakim at verona.se wrote:
>>> Fox Mulder <Quakeman1 at gmx.net> writes:
>>>
>>>> The kernel shipped with debian has the corruption bug.
>>>> To update your kernel you must do it by hand. The instruction how to do
>>>> this is in the debian page in the openmoko wiki [1].
>>>> I changed my /boot partition from vfat to ext2 and symlink the
>>>> boot-kernel to the one i want to use because i switch between the actual
>>>> OM and FSO kernels.
>>> I followed the instructions and installed a new kernel. I still get the
>>> corruption bug whenever I shut down the FR unexpectedly.
>>>
>>>> Ciao,
>>>>      Rainer
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [1]
>>>> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Debian#How_to_replace_the_default_kernel_with_a_recent_openmoko_kernel>>
>>>> joakim at verona.se wrote:
>>>>> Fox Mulder <Quakeman1 at gmx.net> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Which kernel and from when do you use?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This bug should be fixed in newer kernels. But i still use the apm
>>>>>> suspend/resume script which works for me since i installed debian.
>>>>> Ok, how do I ensure I have a newer kernel? I just use the kernel shipped
>>>>> with Debian, I think.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Ciao,
>>>>>>      Rainer
>>>>>>
>>>>>> joakim at verona.se wrote:
>>>>>>> It is rather annoying to fix the memory card whenever it gets corrupted
>>>>>>> and wont boot. I know there are workaround scripts, but they dont work
>>>>>>> for me, since I most often get corruption after booting after unexpected
>>>>>>> power down.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is there any progress on this bug? Any working workarounds ?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>