XBian 1.0 Beta 1.1 Public testing

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XBian 1.0 Beta 1.1 is an hotfix update for XBian 1.0 Beta 1, you can upgrade to XBian 1.0 Beta 1.1 from XBian 1.0 Alpha 5 or XBian 1.0 Beta 1

in case of issues, please do the also the following: http://forum.xbian.org/thread-1077-post-12374.html#pid12374

NOTE: For advanced users only!

Changelog

• Bumped kernel to 3.9.8
• Fix for getting out of memory while creating the initramfs (was an issue for 256MB pi's)
• Fixed the bootorder issues
• Fixed xbian-config-shell layout issue
• Fix for rpcbind not being started
• Fix for lirc binaries not being executable
• Improved initramfs creation speed
• Fix for usb HDD's not being mounted
• Fixed libtiff4 issue
• Fixed libmad0 issue
• Fixed some xbian-config bugs
  

Under the hood: (expert features)

• there is experimental "partswap" parameter accepted in cmdline.txt which triggers creation of swap partition in the size of 256mb at the end of boot device. then, /var/swapfile as swap device is not used
• /etc/default/xbmc configuration file allows to specify processes, which must be started before xbmc will be launched (by default xbmc waits for all filesystems listed in /etc/fstab to mounted and network has been started
• start of xbmc does not mean, that all services are started. since beta1, the service launch is not controlled by order, but is paralleled and depends on events and conditions
• in case of need to enter recovery shell, there are few possibilities: attached usb keyboard (directly on RPI) and press down and hold shift key. or, rescue/rescue_late parameters in cmdline.txt, which will drop to shell rescue - very early in the boot process or rescue_late - just before /sbin/init will be called from real root partition (with rootfs mounted under /rootfs). also, standard init= parameter works the same way as on other linux distros
• "debug" in cmdline.txt will cause detailed outputs to screen. kernel loading, but service starting process as well as fstab mounting process. finaly, initramfs init script log is saved to /run/initramfs and can be used for further analyze
• root= parameter in cmdline.txt can be a device or LABEL= / UUID= parameter now. this will help in situation where more usb drives are attached to the system and changing /dev/sdx name each reboot.
  

How to get it
Upgrading from XBian 1.0 Alpha 5

Code:

sudo su
service xbmc stop
echo "deb http://dikonist.asuscomm.com:82/XBian/APT/ wheezy main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update
apt-get -u -o  APT::Force-LoopBreak=1 install xbian-update

You will be prompted to type: Yes, do as I say!  Do this and press enter
After some time a blue screen will apear, select "Guess optimal character set" & press enter

Upgrading form XBian 1.0 Beta 1

Code:

sudo su
stop xbmc
echo "deb http://dikonist.asuscomm.com:82/XBian/APT/ wheezy main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xbian-update -y