beta2

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@IriDium

IriDium Wrote:Priority 1.
1) xbian-copy pop up – I believe nothing can be done about this at the moment.
2) xbian-config – not updating heldback packages.
4) Upgrade resetting cmdline.txt to mmcblk0p1 even if it was sda1
7) USB DVD drive (Unable to test as no H/W)
Priority 2.
3) Profile selecting on load causes crash or XBMC not to start
Priority 3.
1) xbian-config – network wlan change/cancel not selectable
4) Only 15 characters allowed in xbian-config backup to img
Priority 4
1) Remove debug checks where needed.
4) Amber for Xbian not loading
5) Xbian repo - not working

1.1 if I remember correctly the reported problem was backuphome not being displaying anything, just the comment before. week (or even two) ago I added dialog displaying work in progress with final ok / failed
1.2 the process of finding packages to update/upgrade was changed a while back - don't even remember - prerequisite to it is actual xbian-package-config-shell. communication to this was posted few pages back
1.4 that was fixed the same day as bug created and reported by someone. just to be sure re-checked now a is ok.
1.7 I was explaining this already few times and will again. this functionality lacks support from upstream. existing solutions (like in RaspBMC) are using special add-on for this and external player. I tried external player (mplayer) long ago and was able to play DVDs. if someone will write a wiki how / what to install to play DVDs, we will publish it or even merge into standard install.
2.3 this is not related to latest XBMC package. what you are experiencing is not a crash, but controlled termination. there is autoexec.py in profile dir which is loaded after all subsystems within XBMC are started (python tasks, add ons, skin fully loaded etc). code inside it is reporting to system that xbmc has started successfully. profile selection screen makes this never to load and after 100s failsafe script stops xbmc and related processes - as system assumes that xbmc wasn't loaded successfully. in xbian-package-config-xbmc_1.1.3-12 i added python script notification about xbmc loaded - but this is far from ideal as this is started too soon and xbmc can still crash until fully loaded.
3.1 that was confirmed maybe a week ago as working
3.4 this was committed today with many checks like source & dest not being the same, if img, img can't be located inside source partition, check for available space and more.
4.1 these are removed. the one which is still there is not leaving large logs behind as it is create on /run and is not affecting performance. probably it will become part of XBian
4.4 I use XBian modded Amber on all installations at home so probably point 4.5 applies. On top of that the mod was developed by Fred and he has disappeared somehow. I have zero experience creating skins. maybe to say it as it is: if works, works. If now, I can't do anything about. If someone is able to track the issues, fine, the help will be appreciated.
4.5 this is not included in XBian, nor provided as working nor planned for Beta2. idea is good though, that's why I created it. I know you and someone else reported XBMC not accepting the zip (wrong structure), but as I'm using it on 2xrpi 1xatv2 and 3xMacOSX I don't see now a way to fix it. this will require debug logging from all for whom this is not working and this is very time consuming - so not on the schedule right now. maybe I will get back to it when beta2 will be launched and new devel repo created on the same place. (btw: as I see in http logs few XBMCs updating the repo data including Amber Skin, this will be some kind of tricky problem)

x.x xbmc-bridge respawning during profile selection is caused by the fact that XBMC is closing EventServer tcp port before going to profile selection. there is no event generated about this so again solution is not nice. I added 30s sleep when xbmc bridge fails to connect so what will happen is: xbmc starts - xbmc bridge starts - you go into profile selection - xbmc bridge quits - upstart will restart (respawn) it - bridge won't connect - will sleep for 30s before exits. unfortunately this will not solve the respawning circle, just will make it happen less often. instead of 15x/minute just 2x/minute.