21st Jan, 2014, 08:16 AM
I, too, am trying to get xbian to run from USB, and I'm having problems with the first step: Copying the files via the copier. It seems this problem is known, but upon reading through the thread, I didn't find the solution. Here's the post that refers to exactly my problem:
At this point, the pi seems to freeze: I cannot access it via ssh anymore, I cannot ctrl-c the process, and even the LED on my usb stick stops blinking. What have I done leading up to this? From memory: Installed the Beta 2, configured some xbmc settings, did an apt-get upgrade, installed autofs and vim. The usb stick in question has one newly created partition (via shell or kde part man), formatted in ext4 or fat32 (makes no difference, error remains the same), and has been umounted prior to starting the copier.
My next idea was to use the backup function in xbian-config, then do a fresh install of the beta 2 and move that to usb before doing anything else. But it seems that the apt-get upgrade breaks something elemental, as the backup process hangs as well.
So the only route I see now is to start afresh, with a virgin beta 2 install. I can certainly try that, but I'd much prefer not having to do the whole xbmc setup thing (and vim, and autofs, and some other stuff) once again. Any ideas, hints, any logs or anything I could/should post to make my situation more clear?
Thanks all for your help in advance!
(22nd Nov, 2013 02:02 AM)IriDium Wrote: [ -> ]@Rubman I seem to be having similar problems with the copier. Mine is with creating a .img file.
It get's so far and either hangs - kills the terminal session or other stange things.
Have you upgraded to the latest packages? As I think this might be the issue.
I'd wait for a bit as I think something has gone wrong. This WAS working at release.
Just happened again:
XBian 1.0Beta2
│ Delete subvolume '/tmp/btrfs-dest/home/@.ro' │
│ Create subvolume '/tmp/btrfs-dest/modules' │
[...deleted some messages...]
│ receiving subvol @.ro uuid=a4ea9fdb-6d88-7a48-8ecc-7c32766c2497, stransid= │
At this point, the pi seems to freeze: I cannot access it via ssh anymore, I cannot ctrl-c the process, and even the LED on my usb stick stops blinking. What have I done leading up to this? From memory: Installed the Beta 2, configured some xbmc settings, did an apt-get upgrade, installed autofs and vim. The usb stick in question has one newly created partition (via shell or kde part man), formatted in ext4 or fat32 (makes no difference, error remains the same), and has been umounted prior to starting the copier.
My next idea was to use the backup function in xbian-config, then do a fresh install of the beta 2 and move that to usb before doing anything else. But it seems that the apt-get upgrade breaks something elemental, as the backup process hangs as well.
So the only route I see now is to start afresh, with a virgin beta 2 install. I can certainly try that, but I'd much prefer not having to do the whole xbmc setup thing (and vim, and autofs, and some other stuff) once again. Any ideas, hints, any logs or anything I could/should post to make my situation more clear?
Thanks all for your help in advance!
Finally xbian on my USB.
