Installation and Updates
Configuration
Accessing media files
Backup and restore
Expert / Developers
Peripherals
Installation and Updates
Configuration
Accessing media files
Backup and restore
Expert / Developers
Peripherals
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Common update / installation issues
XBian RC 2 not booting
If your fresh install of Xbian 1.0 RC 2 won't boot (only blinking cursor + red light on the pi), follow these steps. Put sdcard back in your PC and edit cmdline.txt:
Replace
root=LABEL=xbian-copy
with
root=/dev/mmcblk0p2
Python upgrade
When upgrading, you can encounter this issue:
The following packages will be upgraded: libpython2.7 python2.7 python2.7-minimal 3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/5,438 kB of archives. After this operation, 1,024 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y Create a snapshot of '/tmp/btrfs-snap/root/@' in '/tmp/btrfs-snap/root/@btrfs-auto-snap_apt-run-2014-04-13-0953' Delete subvolume '/tmp/btrfs-snap/root/@btrfs-auto-snap_apt-run-2014-04-13-0947' @btrfs-auto-snap_apt-run-2014-04-13-0953, 1 created snapshots, 1 destroyed snapshots, 0 warnings. (Reading database ... 32416 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace python2.7-minimal 2.7.3-6 (using .../python2.7-minimal_2.7.3-6+deb7u2_armhf.deb) ... Unpacking replacement python2.7-minimal ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/python2.7-minimal_2.7.3-6+deb7u2_armhf.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/_hashlib.so', which is also in package python2.7 2.7.3-6 dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/python2.7-minimal_2.7.3-6+deb7u2_armhf.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Notice, that this is an issue with the official Raspbian Repository. However, the following fix takes care of it:
sudo sed -i '/_hashlib.so/d' /var/lib/dpkg/info/python2.7.list sudo sed -i '/_ssl.so/d' /var/lib/dpkg/info/python2.7.list
Now continue your upgrade as did before.
AutoFS issues Beta 2
If you are getting autofs errors trying to upgrade from Beta2 to RC1 just reboot and start the update process again.
dpkg errors on 256mb pi
This can happen when running any 'apt-get upgrade' and dpkg gets killed because OOM
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly