Nop, rootme does not work as passwd. My problem is that also the apt-get refuse to install packages. I lost the root access but, I would like to restore it without reflash all the devise. In fact, I search an hack to inject the command " initctl start sshd " without having root privilege and after I probably could repair the damage file from sftp. My config is the old 1.2 maemo version with some program like gcc g++ javac tclsh vim alarmed (sort of cron planner) gftp and the standard linux command. My N900 is stable except I can not be root to start sshd and set the clock.