beta2

[mk01]

(2nd Oct, 2013 09:23 AM)Dave400 Wrote:  

Code:

apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  xbian-package-config-shell xbian-package-config-xbmc xbian-package-xbmc
  xbian-update
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.

ah, kept back packages. when you do apt-get install xbian-package-config-shell, you get version which fixes the problem not providing kept back packages for further updates.

then you can just update with xbian-config (shell or XBMC) and all will be fine for future, but the new config-shell is essential to this.

newly upgraded systems (from beta1X or A5) will be fine as upgrading via apt-get install xbian-update (as in the instruction in opening post) will install the correct config-shell automatically, but you was upgrading to beta2 before that fix - that's why it stuck. apt-get install xbian-update would help as well, but if you do just config-shell and then using it (to avoid anymore hacking on command line) would confirm the fix. thanks in advance.

probably I should write a communiqué about this because other users with earlier update to B2 are for sure stuck as well.

Matus

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(2nd Oct, 2013 09:33 AM)Dave400 Wrote:  

Code:

753 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/local/sbin/lircd --driver=default

seems to be missing the 'device' string...

yes, i see that. this could be because the mceusb module is creating different device and this is not fetched correctly from dmesg and probably code inside /etc/lirc/hardware.conf.

I was going through your posts (even in other threads) but could not find actual "dmesg". "lsmod" i found, but please send your dmesg. I will hack this to my system and will debug the process with "simulating" your environment.

then I will recheck the accepted commit on git, maybe wasn't si good after all but this is only assumption. by any chance do you know what was the last time, xbian ver when it was working ?

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just some general info for all on of you

1) I would like to ask all of you testing/running Beta2. check actual status of "apt-get update; apt-get -s upgrade".

if any packages are being listed as "Kept Back", do

Code:

sudo apt-get install xbian-package-config-shell

this will install fix and upgradeable packages will never be kept back again. this is quite significant as depending on time when you upgraded to Beta2, the list of kept packages and not being updated as needed can be long and even with some bugs being fixed, posted to repo you won't get them

2) as I was communicating two days ago, today new XBMC FRODO 12.2 was compiled and pushed to repo. So if by accident something stop working don't hesitate and report. I would appreciate also comments whether the few bugs (i remember for instance XBMC crashing on creating bookmark in video) reported are still open or fixed

3) there is also a brand new firmware (dated Oct-1). With firmwares the quality was changing like weather - and even already fixed bugs were appearing again after some time (not very pleasant)
Because of this I have not pushed it into updates, but for those willing to try you can install it with

Code:

sudo -i
cd /tmp
wget http://ivka57.dyndns-ip.com/others/xbian-package-firmware1.4-7.deb
dpkg -i xbian-package-firmware1.4-7.deb
reboot

if there are issues, please report back and reinstall back simply by

Code:

apt-get install —reinstall xbian-package-firmware

thanks for reading this!