[k4ever]

I spent all night installing the Arch Linux Alpha on my TouchPad. Got it up and working, then ran the command to update some of the files like it said in the installation readme. Rebooted the system and it got stuck in a boot loop. Tried to get help in the arch linux ARM forums but no one (with a TouchPad) was available. Decided to remove arch following the instructions in the readme. Instructions for reclaiming disk space did not work.

I finally got frustrated and decided to back up my data and doctor the device. After the doctor, I tried to log back into my account. It failed. I tried again several times for about a 1/2 hour with the same results. Contacted HP and went through some steps with them. Still won't work. I even tried creating a new account and switching wireless routers. Nothing.

Bottom line: The servers are down! Or so I am being told. Does anyone have any information on this or know when they will be back up? Or is HP pulling my leg and they don't know what is wrong themselves?

[k4ever]

No luck yet. Going on four hours of trying to get my TouchPad to log in. I doctored it twice (but from the same doctor file). Anyone have any suggestions on what I can do? I have over $100 worth of apps under my account.

Sent from my PG86100 using Tapatalk

[addiarmadar]

Should never have to make a new profile and Im not aware of any outages. HP support is not trained to deal with circumstances that happen outside their design so its not that they are pulling your leg but just not equipped to deal with outside their design. I heard so much trouble with Arch lately. You said you could not reclaim disk space so the ext3 partition for arch is still there? Best to have the device as stock as possible to restore a profile or errors could happen. Need to delete that new partition, unmount the USB media partition and resize it back to stock, check it, and remount it. Tried the doc again afterwards but this is optional. Reboot the device and then try to login into your profile. Best of luck.

[k4ever]

Should never have to make a new profile and Im not aware of any outages. HP support is not trained to deal with circumstances that happen outside their design so its not that they are pulling your leg but just not equipped to deal with outside their design. I heard so much trouble with Arch lately. You said you could not reclaim disk space so the ext3 partition for arch is still there? Best to have the device as stock as possible to restore a profile or errors could happen. Need to delete that new partition, unmount the USB media partition and resize it back to stock, check it, and remount it. Tried the doc again afterwards but this is optional. Reboot the device and then try to login into your profile. Best of luck.

Ok, you got to walk me through what you just said. I doctored the device (completely erasing everything). Now I can't log into my webOS profile, which is required to set-up the device after a doctor. Since I can't log in, how do I get into the device to restore the partition size? The instructions in the Arch readme were crap, btw. I resized the partition in novaterm to what I thought was normal size, but the TouchPad did not read the new size, even after rebooting several times. I thought the doctor would restore everything to normal but now you are telling me that I may not be able to get things right until I fix the partition. I honestly don't know what to do at this point. How do I get back into my TouchPad at this state to fix everything if I can't log in?

[k4ever]

You said you could not reclaim disk space so the ext3 partition for arch is still there? Best to have the device as stock as possible to restore a profile or errors could happen. Need to delete that new partition, unmount the USB media partition and resize it back to stock, check it, and remount it. Tried the doc again afterwards but this is optional. Reboot the device and then try to login into your profile. Best of luck.

I was able to get into the device using some novacom and novaterm tricks along with the boot image from the doctor jar. I checked the /dev/store/media partition and it seems to be close to the right size (27.52 GB). Will someone check the size of their unaltered /dev/store/media partition and let me know if the 27.52GB number is off? I used the command " lvm.static lvdisplay" (without the qoutes). I don't see the partition for Arch Linux anymore. Don't know why it still won't let me log into my webOS profile.

[k4ever]

Will a moderator please change the title of this thread to "Bricked TouchPad and Need Help!"? Maybe I will get someone to look at this then...

[Cantaffordit]

<thread title updated>

[k4ever]

<thread title updated>

Thank you! Your title is way more accurate.

[k4ever]

For those not familiar with the Arch Linux TouchPad build here is some info:

https://github.com/crimsonredmk/ArchLinuxARM-TouchPad

It is really really alpha right now. Unless you want to run into the issues I have, I would wait for it to mature more. Right now I just want to get my TouchPad running right again.

[bluenote]

sorry for your problem, try posting in the tailor thread and see if some of the linux gurus there can help.

[k4ever]

sorry for your problem, try posting in the tailor thread and see if some of the linux gurus there can help.

bluenote, what's a tailor thread?

I'm trying one more thing right now. I did a complete filesystem deletion/creation for my TouchPad using these instructions (at bottom of link webpage):

How To Recover - WebOS Internals

I just got through doctoring it and it is booting up right now. I'm crossing my fingers and toes in hopes that it will work.

[k4ever]

Ok, the device stayed on the HP logo forever (at least 10 minutes) Ended up trying to doctor it again. Now the doctor fails...

[bluenote]

bluenote, what's a tailor thread?

I'm trying one more thing right now. I did a complete filesystem deletion/creation for my TouchPad using these instructions (at bottom of link webpage):

How To Recover - WebOS Internals

I just got through doctoring it and it is booting up right now. I'm crossing my fingers and toes in hopes that it will work.

Rod created an app called Tailor now in the beta feeds for resizing partitions. Link below, perhaps read the whole thread before you post:

http://forums.webosnation.com/webos-...testing-5.html

[k4ever]

Every time I try to doctor now it fails and says "We are unable to reset your device". I've tried this at least ten times (bottom of page) before I doctored:

How To Recover - WebOS Internals

After I run the doctor here is the output error I get:



Jan 19, 2012 5:08:48 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: Loading Ramdisk: leftToWrite 9375353

Jan 19, 2012 5:08:48 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: Loading Ramdisk: leftToWrite 9113209

Jan 19, 2012 5:08:48 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: Loading Ramdisk: leftToWrite 8785529

Jan 19, 2012 5:08:48 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: Loading Ramdisk: leftToWrite 8523385

Jan 19, 2012 5:08:48 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: Loading Ramdisk: leftToWrite 8195705

Jan 19, 2012 5:08:48 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: Loading Ramdisk: leftToWrite 7933561

Jan 19, 2012 5:08:48 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: Loading Ramdisk: leftToWrite 7605881

Jan 19, 2012 5:08:48 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: Loading Ramdisk: leftToWrite 7343737

Jan 19, 2012 5:08:48 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: Loading Ramdisk: leftToWrite 7016057

Jan 19, 2012 5:08:49 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: Loading Ramdisk: leftToWrite 6753913

Jan 19, 2012 5:08:49 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: Loading Ramdisk: leftToWrite 6426233

Jan 19, 2012 5:08:49 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: Loading Ramdisk: leftToWrite 6164089

Jan 19, 2012 5:08:49 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: Loading Ramdisk: leftToWrite 5836409

Jan 19, 2012 5:08:49 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: Loading Ramdisk: leftToWrite 5574265

Jan 19, 2012 5:08:49 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: Loading Ramdisk: leftToWrite 5246585

Jan 19, 2012 5:08:49 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: Loading Ramdisk: leftToWrite 4984441

Jan 19, 2012 5:08:49 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: Loading Ramdisk: leftToWrite 4656761

Jan 19, 2012 5:08:49 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: Loading Ramdisk: leftToWrite 4394617

Jan 19, 2012 5:08:49 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: Loading Ramdisk: leftToWrite 4066937

Jan 19, 2012 5:08:49 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: Loading Ramdisk: leftToWrite 3804793

Jan 19, 2012 5:08:50 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: Loading Ramdisk: leftToWrite 3477113

Jan 19, 2012 5:08:50 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: Loading Ramdisk: leftToWrite 3214969

Jan 19, 2012 5:08:50 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: Loading Ramdisk: leftToWrite 2887289

Jan 19, 2012 5:08:50 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: Loading Ramdisk: leftToWrite 2625145

Jan 19, 2012 5:08:50 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: Loading Ramdisk: leftToWrite 2297465

Jan 19, 2012 5:08:50 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: Loading Ramdisk: leftToWrite 2035321

Jan 19, 2012 5:08:50 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: Loading Ramdisk: leftToWrite 1707641

Jan 19, 2012 5:08:50 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: Loading Ramdisk: leftToWrite 1445497

Jan 19, 2012 5:08:50 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: Loading Ramdisk: leftToWrite 1117817

Jan 19, 2012 5:08:50 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: Loading Ramdisk: leftToWrite 855673

Jan 19, 2012 5:08:50 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: Loading Ramdisk: leftToWrite 527993

Jan 19, 2012 5:08:51 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: Loading Ramdisk: leftToWrite 265849

Jan 19, 2012 5:08:51 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: Loading Ramdisk: Booting

Jan 19, 2012 5:08:51 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: update Loading Ramdisk 50

Jan 19, 2012 5:08:51 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: Loading Ramdisk: Waiting for device to come back

Jan 19, 2012 5:09:02 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: Loading Ramdisk: Ramdisk has booted!

Jan 19, 2012 5:09:02 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: Finished: Loading Ramdisk

Jan 19, 2012 5:09:02 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: device is in ramdisk as expected

Jan 19, 2012 5:09:02 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: WARNING - carrier list returned is empty, unless not checking for carrier
in the case of NDI

Jan 19, 2012 5:09:02 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: token returned by get_token() is : EMPTY

Jan 19, 2012 5:09:02 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: token returned by get_token() is :

Jan 19, 2012 5:09:02 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: INFO - the device carrier token is EMPTY ...flashing a WIFI device

Jan 19, 2012 5:09:03 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: token returned by get_token() is : HSTNH-I29C

Jan 19, 2012 5:09:03 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: token returned by get_token() is : HSTNH-I29C

Jan 19, 2012 5:09:03 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: Found device Model match for : hstnh-i29c

Jan 19, 2012 5:09:03 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: Starting: SaveLogsBeforeFlash

Jan 19, 2012 5:09:03 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: SaveLogsBeforeFlash: saving logs before flashing

Jan 19, 2012 5:09:03 PM com.palm.nova.installer.core.MountUtils readCurrentLvmVa
lues
INFO: looking for LVM while in installer mode
Jan 19, 2012 5:09:03 PM com.palm.nova.installer.core.MountUtils readCurrentLvmVa
lues
INFO: got lvm static, running vgscan
Jan 19, 2012 5:09:03 PM com.palm.nova.installer.core.MountUtils readCurrentLvmVa
lues
INFO: vgscan ran, running vgchange
Jan 19, 2012 5:09:03 PM com.palm.nova.installer.core.MountUtils readCurrentLvmVa
lues
INFO: MountUtils: 8 logical volume(s) in volume group "store" now active
Jan 19, 2012 5:09:03 PM com.palm.nova.installer.core.MountUtils readCurrentLvmVa
lues
INFO: lvmGroupName set to store
Jan 19, 2012 5:09:03 PM com.palm.nova.installer.core.MountUtils setLvmValues
INFO: LVM Root Path: /dev/mapper/store-root
Jan 19, 2012 5:09:03 PM com.palm.nova.installer.core.MountUtils setLvmValues
INFO: LVM Var Path: /dev/mapper/store-var
Jan 19, 2012 5:09:03 PM com.palm.nova.installer.core.MountUtils setLvmAllValues
INFO: LVM Log Path: /dev/mapper/store-log
Jan 19, 2012 5:09:03 PM com.palm.nova.installer.core.MountUtils setLvmAllValues
INFO: LVM Media Path: /dev/mapper/store-media
Jan 19, 2012 5:09:04 PM com.palm.nova.installer.core.MountUtils mount
INFO: Mounting /dev/mapper/store-media to: /tmp_media
Jan 19, 2012 5:09:04 PM com.palm.nova.installer.core.MountUtils mount
INFO: Mounting /dev/mapper/store-log to: /tmp_log
Jan 19, 2012 5:09:04 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: SaveLogsBeforeFlash: mounted mediafs and logfs sucessfully

Jan 19, 2012 5:09:04 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: SaveLogsBeforeFlash: media mount exists

Jan 19, 2012 5:09:04 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: SaveLogsBeforeFlash: log mount missing

Jan 19, 2012 5:09:04 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: SaveLogsBeforeFlash: WARNING:: Issue with saving logs

Jan 19, 2012 5:09:04 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController logP
rint
INFO: SaveLogsBeforeFlash: Done with SaveLog stage

Jan 19, 2012 5:09:04 PM com.palm.nova.installer.core.MountUtils umountPart
INFO: Unmounting /dev/mapper/store-media
Jan 19, 2012 5:09:04 PM com.palm.nova.installer.core.MountUtils umountPart
INFO: MountUtils: unmount successful
Jan 19, 2012 5:09:04 PM com.palm.nova.installer.core.MountUtils umountPart
INFO: Unmounting /dev/mapper/store-log
Jan 19, 2012 5:09:04 PM com.palm.nova.installer.core.MountUtils umountPart
WARNING: MountUtils: unmount failed, retrying in 1 second
Jan 19, 2012 5:09:05 PM com.palm.nova.installer.core.MountUtils umountPart
SEVERE: MountUtils: unmount failed: umount: can't umount /dev/mapper/store-log:
No such file or directory

Jan 19, 2012 5:09:05 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController post
FlashEvent
WARNING: Flash Failure
err -1 "unmount failed"
at com.palm.nova.installer.core.MountUtils.umountPart(MountUtils.java:32
0)
at com.palm.nova.installer.core.MountUtils.umount(MountUtils.java:335)
at com.palm.nova.installer.core.stages.SaveLogsBeforeFlashStage.run(Save
LogsBeforeFlashStage.java:71)
at com.palm.nova.installer.core.FlasherThread.run(FlasherThread.java:333
)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Jan 19, 2012 5:09:05 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController post
FlashEvent
INFO: Flash End time (Fail) 1327010945983
Jan 19, 2012 5:09:06 PM com.palm.nova.installer.core.RdxUtils saveLogs
INFO: from C:\Users\Kelvin\AppData\Local\Temp\PalmWebOsRecoveryToolLog0.log.2
Jan 19, 2012 5:09:06 PM com.palm.nova.installer.core.RdxUtils saveLogs
INFO: to C:\Users\Kelvin\AppData\Local\Temp\palmInstallerError0.log
Jan 19, 2012 5:09:06 PM com.palm.nova.installer.core.RdxUtils saveLogs
INFO: from C:\Users\Kelvin\AppData\Local\Temp\PalmWebOsRecoveryToolLog0.log.1
Jan 19, 2012 5:09:06 PM com.palm.nova.installer.core.RdxUtils saveLogs
INFO: to C:\Users\Kelvin\AppData\Local\Temp\palmInstallerError1.log
Jan 19, 2012 5:09:08 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController hand
leFailCase
INFO: something failed, query to see if device is plugged in
Jan 19, 2012 5:09:08 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController hand
leFailCase
INFO: exiting handleFailCase()
err -1 "unmount failed"
at com.palm.nova.installer.core.MountUtils.umountPart(MountUtils.java:32
0)
at com.palm.nova.installer.core.MountUtils.umount(MountUtils.java:335)
at com.palm.nova.installer.core.stages.SaveLogsBeforeFlashStage.run(Save
LogsBeforeFlashStage.java:71)
at com.palm.nova.installer.core.FlasherThread.run(FlasherThread.java:333
)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Jan 19, 2012 5:09:09 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.runner.DeviceDiscov
eryRunner$DeviceDiscoveryThread run
INFO: got controller
Jan 19, 2012 5:09:09 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.runner.DeviceDiscov
eryRunner$DeviceDiscoveryThread run
INFO: got devices 1
Jan 19, 2012 5:09:09 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController runn
erFinished
INFO: device runner done
Jan 19, 2012 5:09:09 PM com.palm.nova.installer.recoverytool.CardController runn
erFinished
WARNING: flashing failed, move to failed card

[VPope]

The error seems to relate to a failure to unmount the sdcard from the system, there should be a log file in

C:\Users\Kelvin\AppData\Local\Temp\palmInstallerError1.log

if you can let us have a look at that log we will probably have a better idea, but if i had to take a stab in the dark i would suspect the usb controller in your pc , or a bad usb cable , but that's just a assumption with out seeing the log i relay cant be sire , so try another cable and send me the log

[k4ever]

The error seems to relate to a failure to unmount the sdcard from the system, there should be a log file in

C:\Users\Kelvin\AppData\Local\Temp\palmInstallerError1.log

if you can let us have a look at that log we will probably have a better idea, but if i had to take a stab in the dark i would suspect the usb controller in your pc , or a bad usb cable , but that's just a assumption with out seeing the log i relay cant be sire , so try another cable and send me the log

Changed the extension to .txt. File is attached.

[k4ever]

I just tried another cable on another computer and I get the same error. I don't have a HP cable (it broke). I hope it is not the cable. Here is the error log from the other computer (attached).

[k4ever]

Is there anyone out there who can look at this and give me a hand? ..or has webOSNation turned completely into a bash webOS only forum that no longer helps out it's members? I'm going on 3 days now with limited or no support on this issue. If the problem can be fixed I would like to do that instead of sending my TouchPad back to HP to get another one.

[LizardWiz]

Having never tried to do this with the TP, I can't help. I am replying here to bump this back up to the top. I know that there are a bunch of people here that could probably help. I would try to post in that thread where they are trying to get 2.x to run on the old Pre-. Those are the people that could surely help...

[k4ever]

Having never tried to do this with the TP, I can't help. I am replying here to bump this back up to the top. I know that there are a bunch of people here that could probably help. I would try to post in that thread where they are trying to get 2.x to run on the old Pre-. Those are the people that could surely help...

Thank you for the bump. I just asked for help in the webOS 2.2.4 on Palm Pre thread. Hopefully someone will respond. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.