great news, i finally got it to work. Took me forever to correct the missing dependencies when installing boxee, but got it up and running none the less. Many thanks to prupert for his time and patience.
There is however one problem that i encountered installing the latest installer script that wasn't there with the original.
When I exit out of xbmc it no longer takes me to the command prompt as before, but takes me to what i assume is the window manager. What i'm looking at when i exit is a black screen with an X in the middle. I am able to move the X cursor around with my mouse, but after about five seconds or so it reboots back into xbmc. It does this no matter which option i choose from the shutdown menu(ie. exit, shutdown, restart). They all lead me back to the same screen, followed by a reboot back into xbmc. The irexec files also does not get called up when this is happening as well.
However when i changed this file:
/usr/local/bin/xbmc-session
to this:
Code:
!/bin/bash
trap "xbmc --standalone" SIGINT SIGHUP EXIT SIGTERM QUIT SIGSEGV
while true
do
#xbmc
#sleep 10
done
essentially commenting out the
xbmc and
sleep 10 from the script.
When i do this everything works perfectly. I get a window manager with an arrow rather than an X, im able to click and open a terminal, and most importantly both buttons call the things that they were programed to do(start xbmc and boxee). I'm assuming it has to be something in the new script that it is doing it, because it wasn't happening in the first version.
Now dont get me wrong, i'm extremely happy that i finally got this thing running right and I really appreciate the help immensely. However, i'd like to be able to shutdown the computer from xbmc rather than getting up and having to hold down the power button to get the damn thing to turn off.
I dont if you had this problem or not when you did your install prupert, but i figured i'd ask if you know anything since you've been the man so far.
Anyways, once again thanks for all the help and hope to hear from you soon,
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