2010-11-11, 22:16
BUG REPORT ?
Just did a fresh from-scratch of XBMC Live 'Dharma' beta4 from CD to a Dell Optiplex 280 (P4 cpu, Intel GPU, 40 GB SATA). The disk booted fine in 'LiveCD' mode but when I installed to disk (and choose Use Entire Disk) it failed to boot-up completely. Instead, I got a command-line login and a flashing screen.
I booted from an Ubuntu LiveCD and reviewed the hard-drive's contents. The default user's home directory had an '.xsession-errors' full of warnings about "unable to access ~/.xbmc -- wrong access rights?" Sure enough, this hidden folder was set with 'root' as owner instead of the user account.
I booted from the HD again and -- in between screen flashings -- I was able to login as the user-acct, then do the following command-line:
> sudo chown user:user -R .xbmc
et voila! the XBMC app immediately loaded, without any other intervention on my part.
can anyone else reproduce this error?
P.S. the actual end-user account I created was called 'owner'
Just did a fresh from-scratch of XBMC Live 'Dharma' beta4 from CD to a Dell Optiplex 280 (P4 cpu, Intel GPU, 40 GB SATA). The disk booted fine in 'LiveCD' mode but when I installed to disk (and choose Use Entire Disk) it failed to boot-up completely. Instead, I got a command-line login and a flashing screen.
I booted from an Ubuntu LiveCD and reviewed the hard-drive's contents. The default user's home directory had an '.xsession-errors' full of warnings about "unable to access ~/.xbmc -- wrong access rights?" Sure enough, this hidden folder was set with 'root' as owner instead of the user account.
I booted from the HD again and -- in between screen flashings -- I was able to login as the user-acct, then do the following command-line:
> sudo chown user:user -R .xbmc
et voila! the XBMC app immediately loaded, without any other intervention on my part.
can anyone else reproduce this error?
P.S. the actual end-user account I created was called 'owner'