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(6th Feb, 2015 07:19 AM)Vader Wrote:  

(6th Feb, 2015 06:22 AM)Gyuunduh Wrote:  When trying to update the firmware I get an error:

Code:

Preparing to replace xbian-package-firmware 1.9.0 (using .../xbian-package-firmware_2.0.0_armhf.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement xbian-package-firmware ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xbian-package-firmware_2.0.0_armhf.deb (--unpack):
unable to make backup link of `./boot/LICENCE.broadcom' before installing new version: Operation not permitted
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/xbian-package-firmware_2.0.0_armhf.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

same problem here. unfortunately i've done a restart afterwards, now it's not even booting up again

I have the same problem here, including the failure to boot. The boot problem is since the new package (xbian-package-firmware_2.0.0) seems to append .xbian to a number of files in /boot, including bootcode.bin. I managed to get my system booting again with the following steps:

1. put the sd card in another machine and mount the boot partition
2. rename bootcode.bin.xbian to bootcode.bin, fixup.dat.xbian to fixup.dat, and start.elf.xbian to start.elf
3. unmount the sd card and put it back into your RPi

Since the partition is FAT, I guess you can do this on either Windows or Linux (I used the latter).

Edit: I checked the package source and I believe that the .xbian files are meant as temporary backups while the new files are written. Since the installation fails in the middle, the new files are never written. Unfortunately, the backup files are not rolled back either, thus leaving the system in this unbootable state.