Black screen - can't even startup

[yeti_z]

Hi,

I had the same behaviour of xbian on external usb drive. A black screen with a blinking coursor in the left upper corner. I followed your advice and restored the previous btrfs snapshot on xbian-copy partition and it works again - for now.

One thing I noticed, is I had some automatic upgrading going on in background. I remember seeing something like "Silent upgrade" in top a night before. Now, still during a day I know xbian was running cause I received a mail from it, but few hours later the screen was black (I don't think there was a coursor blinking then just yet. The blinking coursor came only after a restart.)

In the last snapshot before it failed I have a package to be updated: xbian-package-usbmount 1.0.5-5 (1.0.5-6). Coincident?

Anyway. There is an option in xbian to disable auto-updating. Probably in my quite customized image that I have it could be a good idea to disable this option and run manual and controllable updates by hand only.

Kind regards,
Yeti_z