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(26th Sep, 2013 01:40 AM)IriDium Wrote:  Does RPi update still affect Xbian? If not can that line be removed.

definitely yes. it updates firmware & kernel & modules. XBian can boot, but subsystems / services / applications can miss components they count on.

even if it won't hurt - it can not help.

will update the motd.

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(27th Sep, 2013 10:25 PM)IriDium Wrote:  

(27th Sep, 2013 03:28 AM)Smultie Wrote:  As soon as I try to press "Create Bookmark" XBMC exits, black screen with white text appears and XBMC restarts.

Ok - That's confirmed.

Hmm we can't go back, we can't go forward because Gotham has that Picture crash, so it may have to stay. Do you know if it is used much?

because until now there were no prio1 issues with xbmc, i have not updated the 12.2 nightly with backports for a while. one never knows if newer release is better as the previous.

but it is available, Koen is compiling. so I can update XBMC binary package today and let's see.

anyhow the release we are on was quite good. after long time DTS-ES/EX was fixed, FF/RW was working, even playing back and forth on different speeds. anytime we can revert back then.

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(27th Sep, 2013 12:45 PM)darrylb Wrote:  So, how long shoudl this take to upgrade? Mine has been going at it for a few hours.. still says "Preconfiguring packages...".

If this was by accident as well caused by the bug I created? Could be.

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(28th Sep, 2013 04:53 PM)f1vefour Wrote:  Could you at least warn us when your server will be down, it is quite aggrevating to have an update break mid-process!

I took the web down when I realized the problem with update package making system unbootable.

Due to version dependencies between packages your APT won't install packages already downloaded but with unmet dependency (not yet downloaded). Better this with you than 20 more people with broken boot.

Since then I was doing regression and testing over and over again. I can just wait now if anyone confirms it is still existing - or better not. But I could not repeat it for last 8h running auto upgrades & downgrades in a loop.

But I have already been telling how deeply sorry I really am. Have I?

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(28th Sep, 2013 11:04 PM)wind-rider Wrote:  I know that the possibility to boot from usb being developed, but could this also be used to boot from NFS?

I tried it with Beta 1.1 but couldn't get the settings right for fstab and cmdline.txt.

Are there any people who succeeded in doing this?

NFS boot is not such a big success story as it mostly looks reading internet, already CurlyMo's Alpha5 was able to boot NFS with few small mods. Since early Beta development it was a feature and I was using it until switch to btrfs which provided for me similar targets even more.

I will check the actual status with all the changes for past months get back to you.

But as insights general requirement is:
1) kernel with auto ip configuration
2) correct kernel command line options (ip= for kernel auto ip, root=/dev/nfs, nfsroot=10.0.0.10:/path/to/root,nfs_mount_options, bug-free networking scripts - some versions of Debian used to ifdown & ifup already UP network with rootfs mounted on it ... bad bad)
3) with NFS3, nolock is a must as mount option (you don't have rpcbind & statd available during mount) - with NFS4 it's much more straight forward
4) nfs export from server with no_root_squash
5) the NFS should contain simple copy of your system, rsync or even cp -arvd will do just fine

Like I said, will recheck later today and post mini-howto.