Stuck on Starting XBMC

[jhyman]

(14th Feb, 2014 05:16 AM)IriDium Wrote:  All releases are tested prior to being moved from devel to staging and then to stable. However, because of all the different hardware, RPi models and peripherals, it's never possible to test every possible permutation.

I have upgraded three machines now without any issues. The solution (if upgrading everything) is to keep selecting the objects to be upgraded, until you get the message "You are already on the latest release (or something like that).

It was a peculiarity of this upgrade that the full upgrade did not occur in one batch but needed to be applied in doses. Xbian-config handles this.

So if you just run c) and d) you will now be fine.

To be doubly sure, just select one package at a time until you finish on xbian-package-update.

I'm keep getting repeated errors on the xbian-update package related to autofs:

Code:

Setting up autofs (5.0.7-3) ...
[....] Starting automount...^[[?251^[7[[1G[^[[31mFAIL^[[39;49
invoke-rc.d: initscript autofs, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing autofs (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error
Errors were encountered while processing:
autofs

When installing packages one by one, most worked fine. Either the btrfs or dpkg update wound up also installing a lot of the xbian update packages. Once that happened I started getting these errors, but xbian-config stopped listing the packages as needing update. However, the xbian-update package keeps giving this error and showing up in the list of packages needing updating.

apt-get clean and apt-get update don't change anything. Not sure where to go from here, and I'm hesitant to reboot since this cause the system to stop responding in a previous upgrade try.