[1.1.6.27] Everything just freaks out - Phone unusable! [answered]

asked 2015-07-01 10:36:42 +0200

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updated 2015-07-01 10:50:10 +0200

It all begun with me playing an android game (not for the first time), then rebooting the phone. After the reboot I tried to open the android game again which caused garbage on the screen followed by a reboot (triggered by watchdog?).

So I tried to start the android game again and this time it (the android app, not the phone) wasn't even starting. Tried other android apps but none wanted to start anymore. Restarted android support multiple times: No change. Then I monitored the phone a bit (with top) after bootup (or restarting android support) the system-server needs a few minutes to, well, don't know, waste CPU cycles? Then finally it crashes (out of memory it seems).

Then I thought maybe completely uninstalling might help, so I started the Jolla Store, which showed something about a serious problem in the registry. So I resetted the registry which rebooted the phone but did not remove the error message at store startup. Also now the store shows zero installed app, so how to uninstall a "not installed" android support? How to fix the registry? How to see if even more things are broken?

dmesg also looks bad (I guess/hope all the erros are from trying to restart android support) - http://pastebin.com/yHFSiDAe

Turned the phone off now to prevent more corruption but need it back online ASAP so... Help please!

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Have you checked that your internal storage isn't full? btrfs fi show - What is your software version?

chemist ( 2015-07-01 10:45:03 +0200 )edit

Software is newest (1.1.6.27). Give me a moment to boot phone, woll edit this comment shortly.

//EDIT: Looks a bit full:

# btrfs fi show
ERROR: unable get label Inappropriate ioctl for device
Label: 'sailfish'  uuid: 4b9a7c4f-83c2-49be-b2b7-6fe67cc12eae
        Total devices 1 FS bytes used 10.73GiB
        devid    1 size 13.75GiB used 13.75GiB path /dev/mmcblk0p28

Btrfs v3.16

How to check what exactly is using all the space? I'm using the sd-card as much as I can (linking, bind mounts)...

//EDIT²: After deleting the few "large" files from home:

# btrfs fi show
ERROR: unable get label Inappropriate ioctl for device
Label: 'sailfish'  uuid: 4b9a7c4f-83c2-49be-b2b7-6fe67cc12eae
        Total devices 1 FS bytes used 10.70GiB
        devid    1 size 13.75GiB used 13.75GiB path /dev/mmcblk0p28

Btrfs v3.1

So nothing changed? Help please!

V10lator ( 2015-07-01 10:51:16 +0200 )edit
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@V10lator : you need to run a btrfs balance operation. There should be some stuff in this thread https://together.jolla.com/question/30822/root-and-home-disks-full-and-causing-various-problems/

Philippe De Swert ( 2015-07-01 11:05:31 +0200 )edit

Thanks, I already figured that out. So I removed more files and did btrfs-balancer balance. After rebooting everything seems to work again (android apps start, jolla store shows installed apps).

But still my space is very limited:

# btrfs fi show
ERROR: unable get label Inappropriate ioctl for device
Label: 'sailfish'  uuid: 4b9a7c4f-83c2-49be-b2b7-6fe67cc12eae
        Total devices 1 FS bytes used 10.64GiB
        devid    1 size 13.75GiB used 12.75GiB path /dev/mmcblk0p28

Btrfs v3.16

So the question remains: How to check what's eating all the space?

V10lator ( 2015-07-01 11:14:28 +0200 )edit

Obviously you don't have enough unused internal storage. What about some survey via SSH from your computer? I suggest to use an ftp client (Filezilla for example) with the 192.168.x.x host (check with settings/system/developer mode), "root" user and your root password. I'm pretty sure there is a big garbage in /home/nemo/android_storage/

objectifnul ( 2015-07-01 11:14:55 +0200 )edit