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cubemike99 · 07-19-2013, 12:22 AM

I have a jailbroken paperwhite on 5.3.3. It has usbnetworking installed with ssh enabled. I am using backdoorlock to prevent updates. Every so often (from 10 minutes to a few hours since the last time) my kindle crashes and starts rebooting from the boy under tree screen with horizontal progress bar. After it gets to the home screen, usually within 30 seconds it reboots again the same way. After this episode, it is fine for another 10 minutes to a few hours until the same thing happens again. The last time it happened, I managed to sneak a peak at /var/log/messages. One line mentioned a crash, but that the crash report was being written to /dev/null. I activated debug logging with /usr/bin/debugOn.sh and am since waiting until the next crash to see if detailed info is available. Anybody have a similar experience?

P.S.: This crashing truly is random. It even happened a few times while the kindle was on its screensaver with me not logged in with ssh.

SOLVED: Everything seems to point to the indexer having problems with certain books. No real way to prevent it except to deal with a few possible reboots after uploading new books.

07-19-2013, 12:22 AM	#1
cubemike99 Enthusiast Posts: 37 Karma: 260446 Join Date: Feb 2013 Device: Kindle Paperwhite	[Solved] Not so strange random crashing I have a jailbroken paperwhite on 5.3.3. It has usbnetworking installed with ssh enabled. I am using backdoorlock to prevent updates. Every so often (from 10 minutes to a few hours since the last time) my kindle crashes and starts rebooting from the boy under tree screen with horizontal progress bar. After it gets to the home screen, usually within 30 seconds it reboots again the same way. After this episode, it is fine for another 10 minutes to a few hours until the same thing happens again. The last time it happened, I managed to sneak a peak at /var/log/messages. One line mentioned a crash, but that the crash report was being written to /dev/null. I activated debug logging with /usr/bin/debugOn.sh and am since waiting until the next crash to see if detailed info is available. Anybody have a similar experience? P.S.: This crashing truly is random. It even happened a few times while the kindle was on its screensaver with me not logged in with ssh. SOLVED: Everything seems to point to the indexer having problems with certain books. No real way to prevent it except to deal with a few possible reboots after uploading new books. Last edited by cubemike99; 07-24-2013 at 05:42 PM.