recent sorting & go to error

[twobob]

he's right you know.

md5sum does not process arguments. DUH! treat's the argument as a file call. DUH!

[root@kindle root]# md5sum --warn --check /opt/factory/rootfs_md5_list
md5sum: can't open '--warn': No such file or directory
md5sum: can't open '--check': No such file or directory
4655b1d6c0bdb0391a306653ab94350c /opt/factory/rootfs_md5_list

EDIT: Also the same on the 3
(Is there something I don't know about the busybox md5sum build???)

[NiLuJe]

Meh. And I did check that the busybox applet handled it... I just happen to be running a vastly more recent busybox ;-)

[zerolucat]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

Meh. And I did check that the busybox applet handled it... I just happen to be running a vastly more recent busybox ;-)

I'm sorry if I say something stupid, but there is a way to copy the root directory of kindle in pc, for example by the command

sudo scp -r root@192.168.15.244:/ /home/kindleroot/

and use the md5sum of the pc os?

[knc1]

That should do it, but you may want to split that into several commands that does not include the path to user storage.
As written above, it will also copy the user storage area (that 3Gbyte area you see over the USB cable, for books and things).

Note: rsync would probably be a better choice than scp.

[NiLuJe]

+1 for rsync, or, even better, just follow the backup instructions in the wiki, and loop mount the resulting image on your host .

You'll have to tweak the checklist a bit to fix the paths, but that should be trivial with a quick bit of sed magic .

Say, with a dump mounted on /home/niluje/Kindle/K5_ROOT, I'd do:

sed -r -e 's#(^[[:xdigit:]]{32})([[:blank:]]*)(.*?$)#\1\2/home/niluje/Kindle/K5_ROOT\3#g' /home/niluje/Kindle/K5_ROOT/opt/factory/rootfs_md5_list > tweaked_md5_list
md5sum -c tweaked_md5_list

[geekmaster]

Hopefully, that recursive root copy will avoid copying /dev/zero, which could take quite awhile. Copying /dev/urandom would be even slower...

[zerolucat]

scp don't work

...
Too many levels of symbolic links
microvolts                                      0%    0     0.0KB/s - stalled

... I don't know rsync , if I try a "same" command, the output is

sudo rsync -r root@192.168.15.244:/ /home/kindle/
ssh: connect to host 192.168.15.244 port 22: Connection refused
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver]
rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(601) [Receiver=3.0.8]

now I'm, trying

nc -l 31337|dd of=mmcblk0p1.bin

[zerolucat]

Originally Posted by zerolucat

nc -l 31337|dd of=mmcblk0p1.bin

It doesn't work... some suggestion?

[knc1]

Originally Posted by zerolucat

It doesn't work... some suggestion?

Give us some hints -
Such as any error messages,
other messages,
does it just sit there,
does it terminate without any messages, ...

Anything at all more informative than "It doesn't work" please.

[twobob]

Hi.

Your ports are likely not open then.

iptables -L

do you see the ports listed in there for the service you tried to use?
of not... that'll be the issue. perhaps just check the ports are open

[NiLuJe]

Note the comment about the netcat forks, where you need to pass the -p argument.

[zerolucat]

the problem is that there isn't rsync in kindle touch... I try again now and this is the result

zerolucat@zerolucat-PC:~$ sudo rsync -r root@192.168.15.244:/ /home/kindle/
root@192.168.15.244's password: 
sh: rsync: not found
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver]
rsync error: remote command not found (code 127) at io.c(601) [Receiver=3.0.8]

[NiLuJe]

FWIW, it's in USBNet. But GM's comments also applies to rsync (and I can speak from experience), you'll have to use a crapload of settings to avoid pulling pseudo-fs stuff and other fun things. You're better of dumping it with dd.

[zerolucat]

ok, now I make the image of the partition with netcat. I mounted the image but

md5sum -c rootfs_md5_list

give me

... a lot of FAILED open or read ....
/opt/wan/firmware/mt-4/getversion: apertura o lettura NON RIUSCITA
md5sum: /data.tar.gz: File o directory non esistente
/data.tar.gz: apertura o lettura NON RIUSCITA
md5sum: ATTENZIONE: 4675 di 5608 file elencati non possono essere letti
md5sum: ATTENZIONE: 639 di 933 codici di controllo calcolati NON corrispondono

...
I also try (although I have not the faintest idea what to do...)

zerolucat@zerolucat-PC:~$ sed -r -e 's#(^[[:xdigit:]]{32})([[:blank:]]*)(.*?$)#\1\2/home/zerolucat/kindle\3#g' /home/zerolucat/kindle/opt/factory/rootfs_md5_list > tweaked_md5_list
zerolucat@zerolucat-PC:~$

what does this mean ?

[NiLuJe]

Assuming your dump is loop mounted on /home/zerolucat/kindle, that md5sum -c tweaked_md5_list will now actually check the right files.