amyren
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Joined: Tue Jun 12, 2012 10:49 am

problem updating wheezy/xbmc

Sun Dec 16, 2012 8:50 pm

I have wheezy on my sd card, the version from july I think. I have xbmc working on it (tomaz version).
This image have been updated regularly, until the beginning of october.

A few days ago I decided to update it again, and did the usual apt-get update followed by the upgrade.
Restarting the pi and it booted up fine, but if I let it autostart xbmc it starts to load it but gets stuck on the xbmc logo - and the xbmc logo starts to flicker. At this point I must pull the power. If I interupt the startup before xbmc and uses startx it does start up the desktop and works as it should.

I have two sd cards with almost the same setup, so I also tried to upgrade the other card. Also tried to use rpi-update and apt-get dist-upgrade but every time it ended with a flickering xbmc screen.

I then tried to download the latest wheezy version and installed that on the sd card. Then I did try to install xbmc on top of this. But after this the pi does freeze during startup.

I wanted to have an image with both desktop and xbmc available, so my last try was to install xbian. Xbcm worked fine on this until I installed xorg and lxde on it. Then that image failed to start up as well.

Luckily I do have recent backups of my sd cards, so I restored to my old version and have xbmc working again.

Have anyone else encountered any similar problems with recent wheezy versions and xbmc, or xbian and lxde for that matter?
Also any suggestions for how to upgrade my image without loosing xbmc would be welcome.

amyren
Posts: 91
Joined: Tue Jun 12, 2012 10:49 am

Re: problem updating wheezy/xbmc

Tue Dec 18, 2012 9:04 am

update: I found this website that have downloads for pre-compiled versions of xbmc, and full images with wheezy and xbmc preinstalled
http://selfprogramming.bplaced.net/?page=downloads

I did try the latest pre-made image, with wheezy dated 15.oct.
But the pre-installed xbmc did not work for me in that image. The desktop starts, but xbmc fail to launch, complaining about missing open gl hardware drivers.

I then uninstalled xbmc, and reinstalled the tomaz version. And that version did work good.
After this I did try to do a apt-get update/upgrade and after this xbmc fail to start. It just shows the flickering xbmc logo and stays there until I pull the power.

Are there any known incompatibily issues with the newest wheezy versions and xbmc?
Does anyone else have similar problems?

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