Black screen - can't even startup
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27th Apr, 2014, 10:10 AM
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Black screen - can't even startup
Hi, didn't know in wich thread I should put this, but today I had a huge crash in my xbian, I was watching something in xbmc and suddenly it stopped and freezed in time. After hard reset I don't get even initiation on screen just black blinking screen. I was using it from my usb harddrive, and to check if rasperry pi is ok I change in cmdline to boot from SD Card and it works pretty well, but I had some major updates on my usb harddrive and a lot of time consuming application (like compiling rtorrent 0.9.3), so I would love to make it work again from usb. Is there any way do fix it? by using f.e. btrfs snapshot?
EDIT: Ok I managed to get it working, I renamed folders @ in my xbian-copy partition to @backup and one of the snapshots I renamed to @. And it seems to work now |
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30th Apr, 2014, 05:36 AM
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RE: Black screen - can't even startup
Hi,
I had the same behaviour of xbian on external usb drive. A black screen with a blinking coursor in the left upper corner. I followed your advice and restored the previous btrfs snapshot on xbian-copy partition and it works again - for now. One thing I noticed, is I had some automatic upgrading going on in background. I remember seeing something like "Silent upgrade" in top a night before. Now, still during a day I know xbian was running cause I received a mail from it, but few hours later the screen was black (I don't think there was a coursor blinking then just yet. The blinking coursor came only after a restart.) In the last snapshot before it failed I have a package to be updated: xbian-package-usbmount 1.0.5-5 (1.0.5-6). Coincident? Anyway. There is an option in xbian to disable auto-updating. Probably in my quite customized image that I have it could be a good idea to disable this option and run manual and controllable updates by hand only. Kind regards, Yeti_z |
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