[raspberry_pd]

(27th Jun, 2013 06:35 AM)Fred Wrote:  First, be patient. Like the guide says: 'After the installation some time consuming processes are being executed, please do not power off or unplug!'
If after enough waiting it still does not come up I would recommend a clean install.

My update took a while to do the various changes that have gone wrong for a few people. During the second reboot I also saw some of the boot text normally hidden behind the excellent visual startup screen. However that didn't last long.

I'd say, on a Sandisk Class 10, the conversion to btrfs process took about 10 minutes, but I wasn't monitoring it closely nor sitting around waiting for it with nothing else to do (watched kettle never boils faster factor). Hopefully that gives people some impression of how long they may need to wait.

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(28th Jun, 2013 12:25 AM)CurlyMo Wrote:  Conclusion
This isn't a Beta worthy, it does have a really great potential but is just not useable here. There are just to many things that are broken that did work in Alpha 5.

As hard as I'm sure people have worked on this beta, I'd have to agree. It might be early days but the variety of issues people are having seem to be significant and varied. I understand changing a file system and other choices in this beta are fairly ambitious and this distro is called bleeding edge, but the body can only lose so much blood before it dies

One strange issue for me is that my whole home directory seems to have been corrupted in some form or another. All the files are there such as sources.xml and remote.xml but they are all empty! Therefore most of my setup is now broken in terms of being usable. I guess I should be thankful my update went further than that of some other people and there does seem like some speed improvements might have been made, but that's hard to tell when the system is not actually reading the sources like it did before. Any system can show blank interfaces faster than interfaces that actually display some content

UPDATE:

Ok things are just getting worse/weirder. I'm getting issues from simple stuff like the time fails to update itself to all Add-Ons list is now completely blank. Every other reboot I can see the banner view behind "TV Shows" but about 70% of the thumbnails are missing. Alternatively, every second time I reboot, clicking "TV Shows" just loads a blank listing screen with "Videos" at the top.

Pros (compared to other reports)
- Boots
- Movie listings seem to work fine (including backgrounds)
- Wakes up out of screen saver (dim)
- At least one TV video did play, though playback might not have been as smooth as before
- Boot time seems at least as good as A5
- General skin animations seem faster/smoother
- SSH still works, generally (though I do get this error:

Code:

-bash: [: : integer expression expected

)

Cons
- TV Shows "Title" mode doesn't load properly, sometimes at all
- Add-Ons have vanished
- Home directory seems to be corrupted (custom .bashrc gone; several 0 byte files/folders)
- Recently added thumbnails are not all displaying

Neutral
- I don't care about Airplay so can't say if it's working