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Heads up - this is how you can break your deck.

peterlopen 25 Jun 2024

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hi,

just an info for anyone, how it is possible to break deck.
I torrented big file, down speed was around 5MB/s. left deck running until its get downloaded. since I have sleep timeout, after some time (10m) it went to sleep mode I assume. after waking up, deck did not reacted to any input.
I restarted and it never booted to UI anymore. booting using boot manager showed that /home could not be mounted and since it is a dependency for everything else, it stopped loading further.
I had no better idea just to clean account data and set up steam from scratch.

Not sure if /home could be repaired somehow, since I can not take out the disk.

regards

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BlackBloodRum 30 Jun 2024

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I wouldn't really call that a device being broken, but rather a software issue. With that said, it sounds like /home unmounted in a dirty way for some reason, though this should have cleaned itself on the next boot.

For future reference though, it's worth noting that the steam deck is basically a small portable computer, so if you plug in a live USB stick, you can boot it up and check your partitions and stuff in the same way you would a desktop/laptop computer.

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peterlopen 2 Jul 2024

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yeah...somehow in a stress and hurry I completely forgot about this option. Thanks for pointing it out.

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