Official XBian 1.0 Beta 1.1 thread

[obo]

I ran into a number issues with my beta 1 to beta 1.1 upgrade, made using apt-get:

• I had the ifupdown upgrade failure a few other people experienced, though mine was failing due to the urandom service not running rather than rpcbind. Forcing it beyond that fixed the install, though my system got stuck during the reboot and I had to wait until I got home to power cycle it.[/li]
• On restart my MCE remote didn't work, which has been an issue since moving from alpha 5 to beta 1. My workaround has been to manually restart the xbmc service so it's picked up from lirc correctly. However...
• I found the ssh service wasn't running, so I couldn't connect remotely to fix it. So I plugged in a keyboard and manually quit xbmc so I could get at a command prompt. However...
• On exit from xbmc the splash screen never disappeared, so I couldn't get at a command prompt. I managed to work around this by changing the "allow ssh as root" setting in the Xbian section of XBMC, which forced the ssh service to be (re)started to apply the setting. The xbmc process was completely gone, so I don't know why the splash screen was sticking around. I killed it to get drop back to console. However...
• The primary console appeared to be held up late in startup, so I wasn't able to enter any commands. Also, the normal spare console on Alt-F2 wasn't running, so I couldn't use that either.
• Restarting xbmc from an ssh connection did get me back in, but the remote wasn't working as lirc hadn't started either. Starting that and restarting xbmc (using stop+start as restart doesn't work) finally got me back in with a working remote.
  

Certainly not the smoothest of updates for me this time! When I get time I'll try a fresh install of 1.1, as hopefully that'll be better.