Restarting XBMC

[effemmeffe]

I remember that some time ago XBMC was a service and I could restart it with service xbmc restart. Now it seems to me that it's not anymore. So, how do I restart it without restarting the whole system?

[Skywatch]

'Restart' appears to have a problem.

To get around this you need to do a 'sudo service xbmc stop' and then 'sudo service xbmc start'.

Hope this helps.

Skywatch

[effemmeffe]

My question was: is xbmc still a service? Because I use the autocompletion and xbmc doesn't autocomplete after service as, for example, trannsmission or samba. If I write sudo service and then I type two ctrl it lists all the services and xbmc is not there

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I'm still on xbian 1.0RC2 and I don't want to upgrade because I had the non starting xbmc problem.

[menakite]

That is probably because it is an Upstart job rather than a SysVinit service. ("Proper" Upstart commands are shorter though: "sudo stop xbmc", "sudo start xbmc".)

[mk01]

@Skywatch

restart xbmc is rather upstart terminology problem.

"restart" handles special jobs.

"reload" is the term we are looking for. so "reload xbmc".

[effemmeffe]

Thanks, I'm stuck to the old knowledge of debian.
Is there any news about the upgrade from 1.0RC2? Are all the issues solved?

[mk01]

@effemmeffe

re-enable snapshots on apt if disabled, upgrade. if anything wrong, rollback.
what you got to loose? max 1h of RPI cpu cycles (if too many updates ).

[effemmeffe]

I have RC2 without modification, snapshots should be enabled. How do I check it? And how do I rollback? Which command?

[mk01]

(17th Nov, 2014 03:07 AM)effemmeffe Wrote:  I have RC2 without modification, snapshots should be enabled. How do I check it? And how do I rollback? Which command?

@effemmeffe

http://wiki.xbian.org/doku.php/snapshots