[PROBLEM] Xbian update brakes installation

[armf]

Hi,

I had installed the latest version available through the xbian installer. Playing MKV with DTS caused audio drops every few minutes for a few seconds. I thought an update would fix that.
Calling "update all" in the xbian settings dialog started an update sequence. It ended with an error and now xbian doesn't boot up anymore but gets stuck at "starting xbmc"...
Any ideas what to do? I'm sick of reinstalling xbian again and again because it keeps on getting fucked up by the updates...

Thanks

[belese]

Hi
yes there's is a dependency problem,
it was talk a lot of time on forum,
ssh to your pi, and continue upgrade (via ssh xbian config) or sudo apt-get upgrade.

For more info, you can read the rc1 thread

[dharmabm]

(8th Apr, 2014 07:22 PM)belese Wrote:  Hi
yes there's is a dependency problem,
it was talk a lot of time on forum,
ssh to your pi, and continue upgrade (via ssh xbian config) or sudo apt-get upgrade.

For more info, you can read the rc1 thread

or see the wiki article HERE

[armf]

Thank you both for the information! Following the guidelines worked for me.

I just thought, that Beta 2 was the latest version as it is the only image provided...

[NitSuA]

@belese Wouldn't it be a good idea to make a new build including all the latest fixes, and put that version on the frontpage?

It's not very user friendly for all our new-joiners to have a look at the forum before they can proper update their system..

:-)

[belese]

(Quite) everything is a good idea :-)

but don't know if someone actif has access to the website. i've no access.

But everyone can help on XBian! That's the trick :-)
if you think it can help other user(i think so too),Just do it!, you can post a link to an image of a clean RC1 updated (you can use xbian-config clone tool) and post link on forum if you want.

But we shouldn't be so long from stable 1.0 (or maybe not), and surely there will be an image on download page.

[NitSuA]

Hi @belese and @mk01,

I would love to help this community, but since I have limited developement skills (especially debian), I think I can help by making an updated image of XBIAN once in a while.

Just the steps I'm going to take, please confirm:

- I use a clean install of XBIAN beta 1
- Update all the repositories, based on the stable repository.
- Apply the "autofs" fix (http://wiki.xbian.org/Updating)
- Apply the "python fix" (http://wiki.xbian.org/Updating)
- Apply the "services.py fix" (http://forum.xbian.org/thread-2107-post-22246.html#pid22246)
- Will not do the installation wizzard in XBMC
- Will make an image using the xbian-config tool

Post the image on the forum.

@mk01, is this a correct way of making an new xbian image? (is it best to not do the xbmc config, or can I reset everything before making an image?) Can you please confirm my steps, and can you also host the new image on the frontpage if I sent it to you by email?

btw: I'm reading the dutch forum tweakers.net quite a lot, but a lot of people are under the impression that there isn't a lot of progression with XBIAN :-S, that's why I think it's good to have a clean RC1 image on the homepage.

[chochis]

I'm up to date, and seems to me that it is a little bit slower than before. Don't know why...
Fixed the translation.py and so...
Any suggestions?

The url is: http://wiki.xbian.org/Updating [Added a ) at the end]

(28th Apr, 2014 03:41 AM)NitSuA Wrote:  - Apply the "autofs" fix (http://wiki.xbian.org/Updating)

[IriDium]

@chochis

I don't know why this comment is in this thread as it it certainly not about breaking an installation.

If you would like to provide:

Xbian Version, RPi model, SD card or USB class (depending on configuration), N/W config.

Please also give a brief explanation of why you think it is slower.

Output of dmesg, top, and vmstat 5 20 via pastebin would also give us some clues.

[chochis]

@IriDium

I had a problem with the last update and the pi crashed so I had to restart form beta2 again and now everything seems smooth again .

I have a rpiv2 with 256mram and its the first revision. The card its a class10: ScanDisk Extreme U1

The thing that I saw was that btrfs was consuming too much cpu:

Terminal

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
14230 xbian 17 -3 382m 33m 4652 D 32,3 27,4 4:08.32 xbmc.bin
13394 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 13,8 0,0 2:04.07 btrfs-endio-2
9816 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 13,4 0,0 2:15.50 btrfs-endio-2

But now seems ok with the new installation.

Sorry for making you waste time.

Thanks!