(17th Jul, 2013 05:47 AM)nsviper Wrote:  Identical error to Iridium i'm afraid mk01

(edit) trying yout fix now...

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ok great snapshot created now:

btrfs-auto-snapshot snapshot --name pre-beta2-snapshot root
Create a snapshot of '/tmp/btrfs-snap/root/@' in '/tmp/btrfs-snap/root/@pre-beta2-snapshot'
@pre-beta2-snapshot, 1 created snapshots, 0 destroyed snapshots, 0 warnings.

(17th Jul, 2013 06:04 AM)mk01 Wrote:  perfect. so now you can work with the updates as it would be normal life time of xbian, with the difference you have direct access to my development.

you also already have a solid point to return if issues.

what is currently available are general fixes as were reported / solved on the forums (not config xbmc, not my cup of tea).

but xbian-update version 1.0-1.2 is complete rewrite of all system service scripts. after installing, all should go through parallel events from /etc/init/, rcS.d should be empty, rc2.d with few not core scripts.

there is lot of dependencies (even cross dependencies between events and services statuses and even more debug logging to files /run/upstart*, /run/mountall*).

at http://ivka57.dyndns-ip.com/a.sh is script, which is gathering this info together with relevant directories from /etc/, so if you hit a strange things going on, run the script and send /tmp/setup.xbian.tar.gz directly to my email matuskral @ me. com.

for myself, once see that files is what I need and what is relevant. I was developing the scripts and logging for almost two weeks - and 1.5 week it wanted work at all - until I started with the debugging.

have a nice evening and thanks for help.

(don't forget to remove the # from snapshot trigger in /etc/apt/.....)

(17th Jul, 2013 06:25 AM)IriDium Wrote:  Performed the upgrade and all seemed to go well. Rebooted - and alas - Nothing. Just a cursor on the top left of the screen. RPi shows only steady RED light. Oh well. Will give it another go later.

(17th Jul, 2013 06:47 AM)mk01 Wrote:  

(17th Jul, 2013 06:25 AM)IriDium Wrote:  Performed the upgrade and all seemed to go well. Rebooted - and alas - Nothing. Just a cursor on the top left of the screen. RPi shows only steady RED light. Oh well. Will give it another go later.

iridium, don't complicate things for yourself if you see like this, you don't have waste time with ref-lashing starting from scratch.

the probable reason for that is
- kernel is loaded
- initramfs is not

recently I changed initramfs to be compressed with gzip instead of xz. older version of kernel could decompress xz only.

did you upgrade all packages, including initramfs package & kernel ? or you upgraded initramfs, it recreated initramfs at boot with older kernel, not able to decompress gzip?

there is always one backup copy of initreamfs at /boot, ju try rename initramfs.gz.old to initramfs.gz

worst case, just take http://ivka57.dyndns-ip.com/boot.tar.gz and unpack to /boot. it should boot and provide usual tasks.

if not yet, install the kernel package. corresponding initramfs will be created automatically.

(17th Jul, 2013 11:47 PM)nsviper Wrote:  yep, will test tonight when back from work I'm at the same stage as Iridium (cursor top left after reboot), so will SSH in and redo apt-get's...

(edit) actually, no - its bricked.

Can't SSH in, there's no IP, and no way to to login prompt, so will reimage and reupgrade later.

(18th Jul, 2013 04:21 AM)mk01 Wrote:  

(17th Jul, 2013 11:47 PM)nsviper Wrote:  yep, will test tonight when back from work I'm at the same stage as Iridium (cursor top left after reboot), so will SSH in and redo apt-get's...

(edit) actually, no - its bricked.

Can't SSH in, there's no IP, and no way to to login prompt, so will reimage and reupgrade later.

hmm. and you also just upgraded what was available, so kernel installed as well with the initramfs-package ?

I would like to find the reason, grab kernel.img, initramfs.gz, system.* from /boot and /etc/xbian-initramfs/update-initramfs.sh archive it into file and send it to my email ? (before you try the kernel.img and initramfs.gz from package for booting into RPI I provided or re-imaging. but mostly (if no filesystem corruption) re-imaging makes no sense, takes too long comparing to change two files in /boot). but it is up to you.

and if you boot with the images i provided, please send me "dpkg --get-selections xbian\* | awk '{print $1}' | xargs -L1 apt-cache policy"

i would appretiate.

(18th Jul, 2013 04:51 AM)nsviper Wrote:  Thats the problem. there was no way to get onto the Pi at all - no network connectivity, couldnt do anything with keyboard in (via USB hub) - no activity at all

I've reset SD card to a5 install and upgraded - will see how that goes.

(18th Jul, 2013 11:00 PM)IriDium Wrote:  Failed to fetch http://ivka57.dyndns-ip.com/pool/main/x/xbian-package-xbmc/xbian-package-xbmc_2.3-0.7_armhf.deb Size mismatch
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

(20th Jul, 2013 11:00 AM)5ft24 Wrote:  I've followed everything, copy/paste etc, and I get:

root@xbian:~# btrfs-auto-snapshot snapshot -name 'beta2' root
getopt: invalid option -- 'a'