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so i was watching something on xbmc last night - left it running..and came back just now and it was still running hit menu and the atv rebooted twice and showed a progress bar as if it was doing an autoupdate (atv prompted me for an update a day ago and i ignored it) and after the update xbmc and everything that i installed xbmc/boxee etc is missing from the menu

just wanted to see if anyone else experienced this? what do you suggest i do? just reinstall it?

please advise

thanks

to be safe i would do a factory restore by holding menu & - until it restarts then choose factory restore.

if your factory firmware is 2.1 i would leave it as is without updating to 2.2 and repatch with atvusb-creator.

you can disable auto update by typing this in ssh to appletv:

It wasn't showing for me too. I am almost sure that the problem was caused due not enough space available on /dev/disk0s3.

hmm i mean i have plenty of space on all my drives so that prolly not the issue on my end

i just checked itunes and its def running 2.2

so if i do a reset and repatch it - will it go back down to 2.1?

ravidium Wrote:hmm i mean i have plenty of space on all my drives so that prolly not the issue on my end

i just checked itunes and its def running 2.2

so if i do a reset and repatch it - will it go back down to 2.1?

Need to watch where files are stored, OSBoot is /dev/disk0s3 which is only 900.0 MB and Media is symlinked to /mnt. /Users/frontrow is on Media (/dev/disk0s4) so files placed there will be on the largest disk partition. If you do a "sudo ls -l /" you will see the symlink structure.

If your AppleTV came with 2.1, then a factory restore will reset it to r2.1. Otherwise it will go back to the original shipped version. r2.1 dmg is still present on Apple servers, I would grab it now before it vanishes like all the previous versions. The URL is;

For a method to manually update to r2.1 see;

Anytime the AppleTV is updated or factory restored, all custom mods are lost and you have to re-patch using a patchstick. Nature of the beast

ah okay! let me try factory restore and see where that takes me first before i do a manual downgrade

ill keep you posted

docbrown Wrote:to be safe i would do a factory restore by holding menu & - until it restarts then choose factory restore.

if your factory firmware is 2.1 i would leave it as is without updating to 2.2 and repatch with atvusb-creator.

you can disable auto update by typing this in ssh to appletv:

Code:

sudo bash -c 'echo "127.0.0.1       mesu.apple.com" >> /etc/hosts'

okay i just did a factory restore and it reset back to 2.1 which is great

can you please explain maybe step by step how to terminal in and disable the autoupdate

i appreciate it

how do we reverse it then, so we can update once davilla and maestroDD say it's ok?

xeonicxpression Wrote:how do we reverse it then, so we can update once davilla and maestroDD say it's ok?

edit "/etc/hosts" and remove "127.0.0.1 mesu.apple.com"

docbrown Wrote:to be safe i would do a factory restore by holding menu & - until it restarts then choose factory restore.

if your factory firmware is 2.1 i would leave it as is without updating to 2.2 and repatch with atvusb-creator.

you can disable auto update by typing this in ssh to appletv:

Code:

sudo bash -c 'echo "127.0.0.1       mesu.apple.com" >> /etc/hosts'

k just tried it again

I think its cuz i put a space between the brackets and did it as "> >" instead of ">>" ..i did it again and i think it worked - is there anyway to know for sure?

ravidium Wrote:k just tried it again

I think its cuz i put a space between the brackets and did it as "> >" instead of ">>" ..i did it again and i think it worked - is there anyway to know for sure?

">>" is an append, "> >" I think will replace the contents with the quoted text.

You need to list the contents of /etc/hosts to make sure you did not wipe out the original contents which would be the following


It will look like this if you did the command correctly.

whats the command to list that directory

sorry noobie

ravidium Wrote:whats the command to list that directory

sorry noobie

cat /etc/hosts


to edit it (if you also installed binutils)


sudo nano /etc/hosts


control-x to save and exit