2011-08-18, 11:19
I've spent the better part of the last month trying to get the following to work:
SAMBA3: Total Failure
NFS: Total Failure until I installed Lion and then it magically worked
MySQL: Success, but only after hours and hours of trial and error
Postfix: (Not XBMC related, but Lion broke my Postfix installation and I spent most of yesterday getting it running again. I still don't understand why Postfix wants to forward mail intended for my MobileMe email address to the local user "boss". There is no "boss" in any of my Postfix config files.)
So, today is the fist day I'm not going to have to fiddle with stuff. Everything is working. I can sit down and enjoy some videos.
I'm about 15 minutes into my first one when, damn, "buffering"! Why? This is a low bitrate XviD TV show on an N network.
Then all hell breaks loose. XBMC freezes. When I restart the AppleTV it won't connect to the LAN (WiFi). I finally get it to connect, but then XBMC freezes every time I start it. Then the Launcher menu stops working. I try to SSH into the box to look at log files, but:
and then
Try to afp and sftp into the box, but no dice. Restarting doesn't help.
I finally figure that the wireless card in the ATV must be hosed so I grab an old Airport Express and connect it up. It works, but everything else is broken. No ssh, no sftp, no afp, no XBMC, no NitoTV, etc.
So, I end up having to do a software restore on the ATV and reinstall everything. So, my afternoon of video watching turned into yet another day of troubleshooting and installing.
I need a vacation. So, next week I'm off to Koh Tao for a few days of diving.
Thanks for letting me get that off my chest.
SAMBA3: Total Failure
NFS: Total Failure until I installed Lion and then it magically worked
MySQL: Success, but only after hours and hours of trial and error
Postfix: (Not XBMC related, but Lion broke my Postfix installation and I spent most of yesterday getting it running again. I still don't understand why Postfix wants to forward mail intended for my MobileMe email address to the local user "boss". There is no "boss" in any of my Postfix config files.)
So, today is the fist day I'm not going to have to fiddle with stuff. Everything is working. I can sit down and enjoy some videos.
I'm about 15 minutes into my first one when, damn, "buffering"! Why? This is a low bitrate XviD TV show on an N network.
Then all hell breaks loose. XBMC freezes. When I restart the AppleTV it won't connect to the LAN (WiFi). I finally get it to connect, but then XBMC freezes every time I start it. Then the Launcher menu stops working. I try to SSH into the box to look at log files, but:
Code:
bleach:share mnewman$ ssh frontrow@Slurp
frontrow@slurp's password:
Last login: Thu Aug 18 13:51:57 2011
-bash-2.05b$ top
Error opening terminal: xterm-256color.
and then
Code:
bleach:share mnewman$ ssh frontrow@Slurp
ssh: connect to host Slurp port 22: Host is down
Try to afp and sftp into the box, but no dice. Restarting doesn't help.
I finally figure that the wireless card in the ATV must be hosed so I grab an old Airport Express and connect it up. It works, but everything else is broken. No ssh, no sftp, no afp, no XBMC, no NitoTV, etc.
So, I end up having to do a software restore on the ATV and reinstall everything. So, my afternoon of video watching turned into yet another day of troubleshooting and installing.
I need a vacation. So, next week I'm off to Koh Tao for a few days of diving.
Thanks for letting me get that off my chest.