Official XBian 1.0 Beta 1.1 thread

[mk01]

(21st Jul, 2013 01:10 PM)Pawlisko Wrote:  I tried to exit from xbmc and I can't get into log-in screen. I just see messages from boot (?)
Staring Openswan IPsec (list of errors)

I think there is something wrong with either L2TP packages or with xBian. Again on a5 worked without any problem.

Unfortunately I have to have both L2TP and OpenVPN for my clients.

if you quits xbmc and see just the "boot messages" (starting services notifications), that means, that not all from /etc/rcS.d and /etc/rc2.d are started - so getty doesn't get started on tty1. tty2 doesn't have this limitation, you can switch to it with keyboard.

you could easily boot into single user mode and remove the links in /etc/rcS.d and /etc/rc2.d and go one by one which is causing this. but this makes no sense as very probably I already spend days pin-pointing this during beta2 preparations.

if you are fine with spending yet more 2h, then reimage the card, remove the xbian.org mirror from sources.list, replace with devel repo, create snapshot, reboot to it and run update including xbian-update (so beta2).

I can't promise your ipsec & l2tp setup will work right away, but all the issues we (you and me) discuss here are solved or processed differently. on top of that, I migrated almost all standard services / scripts from rcS and rc2 to upstart (which makes the boot process & console creation not lineary depended anymore), ntp is fixed, etc etc etc.

i don't have the ipsec installed anymore, reinstalled yesterday during testing beta2 update, but ipsec was running fine (to the extend of started and ready to receive call-ins through ipsec tunneled l2tp (what I didn't try).

encrypted connections are sensitive to very precise timing and synchronized clocks on the side of client and server so the ntp issue can be cause to issues (although you didn't specify them last time).

so please go through opening post here http://forum.xbian.org/thread-1121-post-12801.html#pid12801, I would be even preferring installing it over your non-working beta 1 (1.1).

clean image reinstall is something I can simulate internally, but user's custom installs is something what makes the difference. I would appreciate.

br,
Matus