recovery boot console

[gkusiak]

(25th Mar, 2020 12:03 AM)griv Wrote:  Hi,

Running an apt-get upgrade today and I seem to have messed up my rpi.

During the upgrade I had a message that something had failed (apologies I can't remember what) but I needed to run xbian-compress. Which I did however it never seemed to start correctly so when I cancelled it, I didn't select "reboot", but rather "return". After reading this thread: http://forum.xbian.org/thread-4029.html I think I've done something similar where @Nachteule noted "that was a really bad idea".

When I restarted my rpi I am now presented with the xbian recovery screen (attached photo).



I have also attached my cmdline.txt (with line breaks just to make it easier to compare) as that seems to be quite different to the one listed on the FAQ:

https://pastebin.com/1aNCUgiz

Some troubleshooting I have tried:

-I am unable to run apt to change the kernel
-I am unable to run any "xbian" aliases, I only seem to have three options of "reb", "rum" and "rch".
-I copied the default cmdline from the FAQ into my cmdline.txt and restarted but it got stuck on the splash screen at "init: running system"

Thanks in advance for any help.

I had the same issue (with that same version, IIRC).
You'll want to get a more current and correct one here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xbian/files/release/

yes, it means setting up your machine again, but with luck you've a backup snapshot in another place to make it fast/easy.

what I've learned from the exercise is:
1 - BACKUP!!!
2 - only do updates from within xbian. (Check for system updates...I'm afraid of Update_to_date)

add-on developers are still catching up to kodi 18.6, I think...but with the world self-isolating and social distancing, I expect kodi to make significant strides towards v19 over the next few months. The real issue is network admins keeping the data flowing to meet demand: Here in the Eastern Time zone of North America, between ~19:00 and 23:00 slowdowns are quite noticeable.