XBian hangs during boot showing "configuring network"

[ditschi]

Hi

I'm running xbian RC2 on my raspberry pi.

At some point I noticed that even though xbian most of the time started without problems, now and then it hung during boot showing the "configuring network".

Now, I can't boot at all. Xbian stays at "configuring network" splashscreen while boot permanently.(waited several hours)

What i tried:
- removed eth0 auto setting from /etc/network/interfaces (read that in a forum) - seemed to improve reliable boots
- many restarts (with/without LAN, with/without USB Keyboard - and so on)
- ping not successful
- waited very long after several boots

other things i can think about:
- I read something about nfs shares (I have none in fstab - not sure if I added one)
- maybe a problem with tvheadend?! no Idea how to test and fix that.

I really don't want to reinstall my nicely set up xbmc.
OK, I could backup, but I'd like to know the source of the problem, so I know how to fix it when it appears next time. Also I can't see how that could fix the problem because I only installed some plugins to customise a fresh XBian installation (this I would repeat with a new XBian)

someone else had his problem? any ideas how to fix that?

Cheers
Ditschi