[SOLVED] Fresh Install: Not Booting After UPDATE Without Ethernet Connected

[mk01]

@josch

this is not something XBian developed. this is how system was designed for years. maybe this wasn't so visible before with linear sysvinit boot scripts, but is crucial for parallel processing with upstart.

also we were thinking of this possibility and that's why XBian will remove "auto" from eth0 if you configures wlan0 (in xbian-config CLI or XBMC). (eth0 will still be configured if cable is plugged in and there is link even without "auto" - but if it fails, it won't affect the process in any negative way).

another issue there is that due to BUG in debian scripts in previous release, eth0 was always being configured regardless of being or not "auto" what was masking / hiding this standard process with "auto" being important and made users not considering this as misconfiguration.

then with migration to upstart we had to consider somehow if auto should or shouldn't be added (if was missing) by update script as this correction of Debian BUG and not having "auto" on eth0 would hit significantly larger group of installations a leave them without networking.

maybe this happened to you. you configured wlan0, auto was taken from eth0 and all was fine. then auto came back. I will review xbian-update package for this part.

maybe you can in-between just confirm that xbian-update was installed during the update run when you realized after.