[IDEA] Xbian restart in "update mode" (low memory mode)

[chochis]

Sorry for not answering before, did not notice the alert.
Well, dpkg was the uptodate at the momento of the post. (Dont know exactly which one)
So, the other day, xbian broke up the whole system and I had to recover from the beta 2 img.
Disabled the xbmc autostart. Changed the video memory to 32 MB and it all worked like a charm.
Maybe that would be a good option. To have a "not xbmc startup" to update/compile/install other softwares...

Can try to reproduce it again if needed.

(16th Mar, 2014 01:14 PM)mk01 Wrote:  what dpkg and apt-get versions you have ? there is a combination of sysctl settings & gpumem and dpkg version which ends up in OOM for dpkg.

there is critical the first pool of Debian updates (dpkg, apt-get, libapt, etc). xbian-update.

After reaching dpkg 1.16.12 I have not seen this to be reported again. for B2 first update the best option is to run xbian-update first as this will set "better" sysctl parameters (dirty cache, swap operations oage sizes, min kernel memory kept as "free").

after this is being set event the crashing dpkg / apt-get was able to finish installs and new versions.