Palm to continue rollout of webOS 1.4.5 with bug intact

By on Jul 15, 2010 at 1:32 PM
General July 15, 2010

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Palm confirmed on Thursday that the rollout of  webOS 1.4.5 has stalled after discovering a programming error that caused some PDK applications to crash. After releasing webOS 1.4.5 to O2 Germany and SFR in France, customers began reporting that their PDK-based applications, mostly games, were crashing. Palm halted the rollout of webOS 1.4.5, investigated the problem, and discovered that webOS 1.4.5 did not update a key system file, “/etc/fstab.” As a result, the “/media/internal drive” is viewed as read-only by PDK applications, a situation which causes the apps to throw an error when they require a storage location that is read and write-enabled, not read-only. Despite the presence of this error, Palm has decided not to delay the update any longer and is going to roll out webOS 1.4.5 in its current state. Palm confirmed that it is working on a fix but it will not be available until the next version of webOS is released. Application developers whose apps are affected by this bug are encouraged to re-write their apps to store game data in another location. Wow.

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  • Bert

    Hi

    I am from Palm. I am sending you this software update so your apps will break. We are hoping the app dev. will fix their app so that it will work- even though most app devs have written us off (and who can blame them). Sucks to be you. Regretting not getting that Android or IPhone yet? Oh well there is always Win Phone 7 just around the corner. Have a nice day.

  • Joseph Watson

    Damn it palm I love you to death, but if you aren’t fixing this until the next WebOS, it better be here soon on some mighty fine Hardware :)

  • Ari

    Bert is correct, its assinine. On a positive note tho someone in the homebrew community already has a patch (take that Droid X) to solve this problem. http://forums.precentral.net/showthread.php?p=2556103

  • The Truth

    So basically this breaks PDK apps that don’t use their own app directory (mandated by 1.4.5 to begin with).

    You mean Palm is telling developers that their apps can no longer just write their files anywhere in the OS?!? And they now have to be sandboxed in their own location???? The shame!

    Seriously Kelly, a little research goes a long way.

  • http://twitter.com/Mrkal_el Kal-El

    Well what’s the biggy? It affected a very small percentage & Palm stated that they could fix it but decided that if they waited aroubd much longer, the US carriers were going to skip this update, Not worth it.
    Plus let’s not forget Homebrew is the best (& Supported by Palm)
    http://www.webosroundup.com/2010/07/webos-1-4-5-delay-and-pdk-apps/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+webosroundup+%28webOSroundup%29
    @MrKal_El

  • Franky j

    Ya should of made that palm sign bigger, it took me three iPhone scrolls just to read the story. Anywho who is palm lmao.

    • Andrew Munchbach

      Better :) ?

  • Rody

    And there you go. The first real proof that HP did indeed purchase Palm. :P

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  • http://UnknowN MrBobby

    Funny thing is…just downloaded this update from 4.0 to my 3GS & I have less bars in places then I had in the past. Seriously, anyone else silly enough to be having this issue?

    I agree with that guy. The comment that we iPhones have to be connected to download an update. Very funny.

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