[raspberry_pd]

This is not completely true. I think the solution might have been reformatting the SD card with:

https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/

before I flashed the image to it. I had not been doing this.

However the issue of root owning sources.xml is still present in the image I successfully installed, i.e. this one:

http://download.brantje.com/xbian/XBian1.0Alpha4.7z

Otherwise my parition sizing nightmares are ok again and things are looking sweet again, except for a random crash while playing back a rar flie. XBMC front end crashed and this appeared on the command line (since I was lucky enough to have SSH running at the time).

Code:

*** glibc detected *** /usr/local/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0xa47026e8 ***