Noob question: Solving crash problems

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(7th Jun, 2014 04:44 AM)JumbledGrass Wrote:  First can I suggest that the connection error is due to the fact that my XBMC isn't using port 9090?

Did you change it manually? That's strange, you should be getting a connection refused.

Your hosts file and ifconfig seem to be ok.
Please try the netcat commands in my previous post, if that doesn't work also try the following:

Terminal

nc 127.0.0.1 9090 -v
sudo netstat -nlp | grep xbmc.bin

Also ensure JSON-RPC is enabled: http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=JSON-RPC_API#Enabling_JSON-RPC (TCP/localhost applies to you; you may need to increase the settings level to advanced or expert, not sure)