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nekokami · 09-06-2007, 08:33 PM

I've already posted this at the iRex support board, but I thought I'd post here, in case someone has some good advice:

I was on 2.9 and suddenly my shell access stopped working. I had moved some files around on the CF card since the last time I'd used the iLiad, but made no other changes to the system. At first I thought it was just that FBReader had been somehow broken by the CF file move (though FBReader itself was still in the same relative place), but in fact I found I couldn't get any shell scripts to run (so I couldn't just reinstall FBReader, either).

Tonight I upgraded to 2.10.2, after requesting the developer package, and I still have no shell access. I thought the new package request was supposed to be automated? Is there a manual process still?

I did see one error while upgrading, about a corrupt file or package. I tried running through the upgrade again after the first attempt to use a shell script, but didn't get any new files.

Any suggestions? I can still view PDF files, Mobi files, etc., but I really don't like the HTML viewer that ships with the iLiad, and I was in the middle of reading an HTML book with FBReader, so I'd like to get this cleared up as soon as possible.

Thanks!

09-06-2007, 08:33 PM	#1
nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	Lost shell function unexpectedly I've already posted this at the iRex support board, but I thought I'd post here, in case someone has some good advice: I was on 2.9 and suddenly my shell access stopped working. I had moved some files around on the CF card since the last time I'd used the iLiad, but made no other changes to the system. At first I thought it was just that FBReader had been somehow broken by the CF file move (though FBReader itself was still in the same relative place), but in fact I found I couldn't get any shell scripts to run (so I couldn't just reinstall FBReader, either). Tonight I upgraded to 2.10.2, after requesting the developer package, and I still have no shell access. I thought the new package request was supposed to be automated? Is there a manual process still? I did see one error while upgrading, about a corrupt file or package. I tried running through the upgrade again after the first attempt to use a shell script, but didn't get any new files. Any suggestions? I can still view PDF files, Mobi files, etc., but I really don't like the HTML viewer that ships with the iLiad, and I was in the middle of reading an HTML book with FBReader, so I'd like to get this cleared up as soon as possible. Thanks!