[HOW-TO] Installing XBIAN directly on RASPBIAN IMG

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@nypete20

did you enable STAGING and DEVEL repos as well? as in point 1. opening post? in older packages there was typo providing "fsck,xbian" file instead of "fsck.xbian" (comma instead of dot).

in that shell you are dropped into try

Code:

mv /sbin/fsck,xbian /sbin/fsck.xbian

if this doesn't help (no file found), create dummy fsck as follows:

Code:

cat >/sbin/fsck.xbian <<\EOF
> #!/bin/sh
> exit 0
> EOF

(just type what you see. then exit the shell or reboot. raspbian should boot normally and you can continue with the packages)

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(14th Jan, 2014 07:27 AM)roelofpieter Wrote:  And indeed, the filesystem isn't btrfs so the error isn't that strange, but why isn't anybody else seing this? Am I missing something? I should be able to go through the script on a fresh installed raspbian installation shouldn't I?

I fixed the appearance of the errors - if you retry after apt-get update, it should be ok.

if you still have the semi-configured apt system, do this:

Code:

sudo nano  /var/lib/dpkg/info/xbian-package-config-shell.postinst

go to the end of file and on new line (as last line) put "exit 0". save with ctrl+x, run "dpkg --configure -a". then you can continue.

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(11th Jan, 2014 02:02 AM)IriDium Wrote:  Noticed in final install

status: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused

I also think that a restore of a backup erases the pi home directory!! Just double checked - it does!!

After that xbian user just takes you to a blank lxde screen not XBMC.

the pi user thing would be quite interesting, I have to check. as /home is subvolume and the backup file is nothing else as exported snapshot (image) of this subvolume.

during "backup" and "restore" (export and import) there is no option or tool to manipulate with folders or files. simply it is even not possible to see what is inside. it is pure data/metadata stream.

but I know that your presence always makes something to fall apart