Cydia crashing on startup
I was just updating some applications through cydia the other day and my wifi connection went down while update was in progress (damn power outs… yeah, we still have a lot of them in India).
Now, after the incident, whenever I tried to open Cydia, it crashed while loading database. I tried rebooting the device a couple of times with no luck. Still Cydia kept crashing. I googled a bit about cydia startup crashes. Most of them were from much older OS (v1.1 really seems much older compared to v3.0 installed on my iPhone) and remaining solutions didn’t work for me.
Now, having your jailbroken iPhone with Cydia not working is pretty bad. So, I kept searching and I found out that Cydia writes a log file at /tmp/cydia.log. I opened that file using mobile terminal (also can be done via SSH) and there it was. One package was corrupted (Error message being “Unable to parse package file /var/lib/apt/lists/
Hope it helps…
Google officially announced Chrome OS for Netbooks
Google announced Chrome OS on official Google Blog today. There were many rumors of a Google OS in development. After a long waiting period, Google has made this official. The OS is meant to be light and it is targeted at Netbooks. According to the blog post, it will support both x86 and ARM architectures. Google is planning to make Chrome OS available to consumers in “Second half of 2010″.
According to trends, my assumption is Chrome OS will be faster loading OS with offline version of Google Apps Suite and of course, Google Chrome browser. Too bad, we have to wait at least a year for it.