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I have a Model B Raspberry Pi revision 2 (512 MB of RAM) that previously ran XBian Release Candidate 2. Perhaps after an automatic upgrade, the unit developed some problems. Two days ago XBMC failed to load a station in the USTV Now add-on. I then tried to run USTV VoD. The system locked up. It would not respond to the USB wired keyboard input nor the Yatse remote through the WiPi connection.

I had to remove the power from the unit to attempt a reboot. The reboots always fail. I see a steady red power LED and two flashes of the green LED. There is no video output, not even a cursor or any characters on the screen.

Then I decided to do a clean install. I downloaded the XBian_1.0_RC_3_Raspberry_Pi.img.xz file. From that I extracted the XBian_1.0_RC_3_Raspberry_Pi.img file. I removed the SD card (apparently an 8 gigabyte class 6 with a Raspberry logo) from the Raspberry Pi and reformatted it in my desktop computer using the SDFormatter version 4.0. (Format options: full overwrite and format size adjustment on.) Then I wrote the XBian Release Candidate 3 image file to the SD card using Win32 Disk Imager version 0.9.5.

(I expected to see some files in the image with a current date but the files have dates such as 7/20/2014 and 7/21/2014 for some reason.)

Using the newly-written SD card, I attempted to boot the Raspberry Pi. Again I see just two green flashes and a steady red power LED. No video. There is also no LED lit on the WiPi wireless module. The power supply has a capacity of 1.8 amperes and the voltage on pin 2 of the GPIO is 4.99 volts DC.

I only have an analog video monitor. Pressing the USB keyboard's 4 key to switch to a composite NTSC video output mode has no effect.

I removed the SD card from the Raspberry Pi and put it back in the card reader attached to a desktop computer. I commented out the "initramfs initramfs.gz 0x1000000 line" in the config.txt file on the SD card. The Raspberry Pi still will not boot.

Any suggestions? What can I do to get the Pi to boot?

(7th Sep, 2014 09:06 PM)CurlyMo Wrote: [ -> ]Please try to down- / upgrade XBMC.

how exactly do you to downgrade.
RC3 was running fine until I did apt-get upgrade now it keeps crashing to and half message on screen about "rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8).

@cmb

I went through this same issue, if you have a wired network cable I believe you should be able to ssh into the Pi and run an update/upgrade.

I'm not sure if it is a kernel or firmware issue (both get updated) but once I updated I commented out the 0x1000000 again (update re-enabled it) and my video was back and all was well.

Are you using HDMI or composite video?

(13th Sep, 2014 10:45 AM)f1vefour Wrote: [ -> ]...if you have a wired network cable...

I only have network access through the WiFi (WiPi) module which, of course, isn't running until I can boot the device and configure it.

Quote:Are you using HDMI or composite video?

I only have a composite video available.

I'm saying that Xbian is actually running just without video.

If you have no way to plug a network cable in I don't know of another way.

(13th Sep, 2014 11:13 AM)f1vefour Wrote: [ -> ]I'm saying that Xbian is actually running just without video.

I unplugged the keyboard, mouse, WiPi module, composite video and audio connectors and walked the Raspberry Pi over to my router. I hardwired the Pi into the router and powered it up.

I see the same two flashes of the ACT LED and a steady red PWR LED. I left the power on for five minutes to give it ample time to boot and bring up the network. The router never saw the device. There is no illumination of the FDX - Full Duplex (LAN) , LNK - Link/Activity and 10M LEDs on the Raspberry Pi (although I don't recall them ever working).

Apparently the device is not booting.

Okay it seems your pi actually isn't booting, my Pi behaved the exact same way. It appeared to not boot but once I plugged the LAN cable I saw the access lights activate.

Come to think of it you used win32diskimager and so did I the first time, wouldn't boot for me either. Maybe it was when I used dd in Linux that my card actually booted and was totally unrelated to any other variable.

If you don't have access to Linux try downloading an older version of win32diskimager, maybe the latest revision has a bug.

(13th Sep, 2014 12:17 PM)f1vefour Wrote: [ -> ]Come to think of it you used win32diskimager and so did I the first time, wouldn't boot for me either. Maybe it was when I used dd in Linux that my card actually booted...

This is why I'm leaving Windows for Linux. I booted into my Linux Mint installation and used the Disk Image Writer to put the XBian Release Candidate 3 on the SD card. Now when I plug it into the router, I see some activity.

Unfortunately, there is still no video when I boot while connected to the TV set. I'll try a few more things.

By the way, the SD card as seen on the Linux computer shows three partitions:
1 xbianboot 36 MB FAT
2 xbian 608 MB Btrfs
free space 7.2 GB

I have always used USBIT on Windows because I bever trusted different versions of win32diskimager out there. Definitely recommend it, never had issues with 6 SD cards and 5 RPis

There's some strangeness going on with Release Candidate 3. I dumped RC3 and wrote the Release Candidate 2 image to my SD card. It booted immediately.

Stick with RC2 for the time being, there are a couple of major problems with the RC3 image.

By default a fresh install of RC3 has no composite video, I'm not sure about HDMI.

Further to my last post, I cannot get the pi to power off from the XBMC menu either! (wouldn't work from SSH the other day too)....

Skywatch

Do you mean streaming via the Tunein app on your phone to the RPi? I tried that with RC2, XBMC does show a "loading" screen but nothing happens and "loading" disappears. Didn't expect it to work, not sure about Tunein app dlna implementation.

(14th Sep, 2014 08:01 PM)zilexa Wrote: [ -> ]Do you mean streaming via the Tunein app on your phone to the RPi? I tried that with RC2, XBMC does show a "loading" screen but nothing happens and "loading" disappears. Didn't expect it to work, not sure about Tunein app dlna implementation.

Hi Zilexa,

I mean streaming to the pi with XBMC plugins installed.

A couple of reboots and Xbian is again playing system sounds and working with tunein streaming, but only stations in the 'recents' list. Anything I have tried in the 'browse' for station won't work? SR plugin still won't respond with any sound yet I can get the stream via the above method! - Strange...

I am selecting all via Yatse, but have also tried via the mouse/monitor with similar behaviour.

skywatch

Here are some of the errors in the XBMC.log file....... I hope this might help....
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10:33:23 T:3038248960 ERROR: DBus: Error org.freedesktop.UDisks.Error.Failed - Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
mount: according to mtab, /dev/mmcblk0p2 is already mounted on /home
mount failed
10:33:23 T:3038248960 ERROR: DBus: Error org.freedesktop.UDisks.Error.Failed - Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
mount: only root can mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 on /boot
10:33:23 T:3038248960 NOTICE: Raspberry PI firmware version: Jul 20 2014 16:03:57
Copyright © 2012 Broadcom
version d8cfa5ccd979ca458fef97e87c14eb804c93762b (clean) (release)
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And then a little later in the log I get.....

----------------------2:18:32 T:2787382336 NOTICE: ES: Client from 192.168.1.4 timed out
12:20:31 T:2871268416 NOTICE: XBian : on saver
12:20:31 T:2871268416 NOTICE: XBian : on saver END
12:20:32 T:3028288576 NOTICE: CAESinkPi:AddPackets Underrun (delay:0.00 frames:4800)
12:22:20 T:2715804736 ERROR: CCurlFile::FillBuffer - Failed: Timeout was reached(28)
12:22:20 T:2715804736 NOTICE: CCurlFile::FillBuffer - Reconnect, (re)try 1
12:22:40 T:2715804736 ERROR: CCurlFile::FillBuffer - Failed: Couldn't resolve host name(6)
12:23:11 T:2657084480 NOTICE: Thread JobWorker start, auto delete: true
12:23:21 T:2657084480 ERROR: Unable to lookup host: 'sverigesradio.se'
12:23:21 T:2657084480 ERROR: CAudioDecoder: Unable to Init Codec while loading file http://sverigesradio.se/topsy/direkt/132-aac.m3u
12:23:21 T:2657084480 WARNING: PAPlayer::QueueNextFileEx - Failed to create the decoder
12:23:21 T:2715804736 NOTICE: Thread JobWorker start, auto delete: true
12:23:22 T:2657084480 NOTICE: Previous line repeats 1 times.
12:23:22 T:2657084480 ERROR: Unable to lookup host: 'sverigesradio.se'
12:23:22 T:2657084480 ERROR: CAudioDecoder: Unable to Init Codec while loading file http://sverigesradio.se/topsy/direkt/132-hi-mp3.m3u
12:23:22 T:2657084480 WARNING: PAPlayer::QueueNextFileEx - Failed to create the decoder
12:23:22 T:3028288576 NOTICE: CAESinkPi:AddPackets Underrun (delay:0.00 frames:4410)
12:23:23 T:2750411840 NOTICE: Previous line repeats 1 times.
12:23:23 T:2750411840 ERROR: Unable to lookup host: 'sverigesradio.se'
12:23:23 T:2750411840 ERROR: CAudioDecoder: Unable to Init Codec while loading file http://sverigesradio.se/topsy/direkt/132-lo-mp3.m3u
12:23:23 T:2750411840 WARNING: PAPlayer::QueueNextFileEx - Failed to create the decoder
12:23:23 T:3028288576 NOTICE: CAESinkPi:AddPackets Underrun (delay:0.00 frames:4410)
12:23:24 T:2715804736 ERROR: Unable to lookup host: 'sverigesradio.se'
12:23:24 T:2715804736 ERROR: CAudioDecoder: Unable to Init Codec while loading file http://sverigesradio.se/topsy/direkt/132-lo-aac.m3u
12:23:24 T:2715804736 WARNING: PAPlayer::QueueNextFileEx - Failed to create the decoder
12:23:25 T:3028288576 NOTICE: CAESinkPi:AddPackets Underrun (delay:0.00 frames:4410)
12:27:34 T:2690638912 NOTICE: Thread JobWorker start, auto delete: true
12:27:34 T:2690638912 ERROR: CCurlFile::Exists - Failed: Couldn't resolve host name(6) for http://www.google.com/
12:27:59 T:2715804736 NOTICE: Thread LanguageInvoker start, auto delete: false
12:28:00 T:2715804736 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
12:28:06 T:2690638912 ERROR: CCurlFile::Exists - Failed: Couldn't resolve host name(6) for http://www.google.com/
12:28:11 T:2724193344 NOTICE: Thread LanguageInvoker start, auto delete: false
12:28:12 T:2724193344 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
12:28:23 T:2657084480 NOTICE: Thread LanguageInvoker start, auto delete: false
12:28:23 T:2871268416 NOTICE: XBian : on saver deactivated
12:28:23 T:2871268416 NOTICE: XBian : on saver deactivated END
12:28:25 T:2657084480 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
12:28:31 T:2690638912 ERROR: CCurlFile::Exists - Failed: Couldn't resolve host name(6) for http://www.google.com/
12:31:23 T:2871268416 NOTICE: XBian : on saver
12:31:23 T:2871268416 NOTICE: XBian : on saver END

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Not sure why it's trying to resolve google? Any ideas?

Skywatch...