A600GS blank screen (fixed!)

[broadblues]

@TribbleSmasher

why would you need BT for a working system?

Well you don't in theory and we offered the option to disable bluetooth service completely for those that would never need it, to speed up booting etc.

but...

Initially the bluetooth stack was accessed only with external tools an all was fine. Later I added some additional functionality to scan the currently available bluetooth devices dynamically, this required direct calls to the BlueZ bluetooth stack via DBUS using libdbus. Here is where the issue comes because when the BlueZ service was not running (disabled or stopped) libdbus triggered an Abort() rather than returning some kind of service not available  error code. Unfortunately raising a SIGABRT promptly caused our front end to do just that every boot resulting in the black screen issue.

I've worked through and ensured that no dbus calls are made if the bluetooth stack is unavailable and the update will come out very soon. Still needs further testing.

In the meantime, work around is don't disable bluetooth.

[RobertB]

In the meantime, work around is don't disable bluetooth.

     Yes, I discovered the problem after I had a black screen after the progress screen.
     Way back in early August, I took the advice of the manual and turned off my Bluetooth.  When I restarted through the menu, the black screen appeared and it seemed that the internal microSD card had been trashed.  I patiently waited for another A600GS image to be sent, and I re-imaged the microSD card successfully.  Then I went to the settings to turn off the Bluetooth and restarted ... big mistake... the microSD card was trashed again.  I re-imaged again.  I turned off the Bluetooth, restarted, card trashed... I finally figured out that turning off the Bluetooth was the culprit!  I re-imaged, and I haven't touched the default Bluetooth setting of being on.  No more start-up problems with the microSD card!

          That Bluetooth change was a booby trap,
          Robert Bernardo
          Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
          Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

[notel98]

When you say, “waited for an image to be sent” do you mean via post or a download? Surely a default recovery image can be made available online or am I missing something.

[TribbleSmasher]

i just opened mine in advance and made a copy before i even switched it on the first time.