[PROBLEM] seeking buged ?

[mk01]

(28th Sep, 2013 09:10 PM)syco Wrote:  3. After another update it went to hell and I could not boot into it again.

this I have to confirm. definitely I must have done something very very wrong a week ago - did some (at least I was thinking) insignificant changes in the code of xbian-update installation - posted to repo and went for business trip. returned after one week and both my RPI frozen (I have autoupdates turned on).

since Friday I'm not able to pinpoint the exact cause - I even tried to revert to versions 2w ago but still struggling. xbian-update starts installing - sooner or later hard freeze. data & system is intact, but cmdline.txt is missing, chance of initramfs.gz being not correctly saved.

solution is easy when told, beta2 can boot without initramfs.gz so can be deleted from /boot/config.txt (or backup from initramfs.gz.old can be copied over) and for cmdline.txt there is template /boot/cmdline.default which for 99% is ok, so just rename to /boot/cmdline.txt but this doesn't helps much if on next installation of xbian-update the same happens again.

to me it looks like init collapse during massive services .conf files update (it watches for .conf file changes and is reloading configurations & whole events tree constantly), but is only assumption.

i slowed it down and changed from mass update to one-by-one service update, then with a script let both RPIs update kernel pkg, update pkg, initramfs pkg, xbmc pkg in loop over and over again like - update - reboot - start - update again and this for 8h and finally didn't repeat this crash, but still I'm not fully convinced.

others have to report whether it is fine now.

but back to your topic, 446 is ugly youtube add-on version and while combined with using login/pass nobody reported much success. it's install is probably triggered with never xbmc version (contained on Beta1/2), otherwise it would be installed on Alpha5 as well.