beta2 ongoing development

[mk01]

(26th Aug, 2013 02:52 AM)IriDium Wrote:  Card 1.
ipconfig eth0 just hangs. Even on static settings
ipconfig -n xbian eth0; Errors and then just hangs ipconfig: xbian: SIOCGIFINDEX: No such device
DHCP is handled by the router - and has never had any problems before. It works on Windoze, Mac Osx, Ubuntu, Android Phone, Raspbmc, Openelec, and Xbian prior to Beta 1.2

ok, just to clear this up. ipconfig is not a script / toolchain to work with setup. it is just micro tool to set interface according to command line parameters - in the beta2 used for obtaining IP in case of DHCP. a hang is just it is with no timeout waiting for DHCP ack from server. I messed the args, just try this:

ipconfig -i xbian -d eth0 …. if you get no IP up to 10 seconds, we have to revert to either udhcpc, dhclient3 or the big ugly isc-common-client.

I have issues more or less with any of them, only isc-common-client was always ok, but it takes 8s for it to get dhcp addr. with ipconfig 2s, with udhcpc 4s.

so please test the last "form" of ipconfig. if you say no again, I will replace by udhcpc.

btw: the current xbian-updat 1.0-1.2 revision is 27 (/etc/xbian_revision) file.

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(26th Aug, 2013 02:52 AM)IriDium Wrote:  I did have problems with /home as when it was recreated it was owned by root not xbian, so a few bits errored.

Maybe I need to upgrade first to Beta 1.2 then move it to the SD card.

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An upgrade script would be useful but only from Beta 1.1 if there would be issues with Beta 1 and Alpha 4/5.

we did something wrong when we tried to re-create the correct structure. if you don't insist on keeping the 2gb as it is, use the xbian-config option for cloning the card.

(i'm sure it's like that but will ask anyway. by changing LABEL to /dev/sda1 you mean whole LABEL=xbian-root-btrfs so that it will look like

Code:

root=/dev/sda1

and not root=/dev/sda1=xbian-root-btrfs ?

you can correct the home with "sudo chown -Rc xbian:xbian /home/xbian once booted.

mk

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(26th Aug, 2013 02:52 AM)IriDium Wrote:  @mk01

As the development stage is almost over and in preparation to a final release can we start a new thread for all "New" problems.

Probably called "Beta 2 final testing" and close this thread as there is a lot of information that is no longer valid.

I will do as soon as we clear the network tool usage and you confirm you have on other issues.

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IriDIum,

just changed to udhcpc in revision 28 and even found the ISSUE which caused cmdline.txt mess-up.