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Hope this thread is in the right place...
Burnt myself a new copy of XBMCbuntu and begun the installation onto my USB drive. I chose to an upgrade of my previous Dharma installation, figuring it would keep all my old settings etc. All was going well, but the process seems to have hung with the progress bar at about 90-95% and "Restoring previously installed packages" at the bottom of the screen. I assume it is trying to restore all my settings and library etc and it has gotten stuck. It's been at that point for about 2 hours now. Should I leave it to go overnight and hope that it keeps going, or pull the plug and start again?
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Same issue here. Has this actually started up again for anyone?
I was able to get to a console window and it doesn't look like the system is doing much.
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I was keen to get moving so I just shutdown and did a clean install instead. I probably would have waited if I knew that it was going to work. Ah well, fresh install is working well. Just need to tweak a few things and I am good to go.
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I did a little more poking around. The last thing in /var/log/syslog seemed to be that 12-setupwakefromusb.sh was waiting for user input. I didn't copy down the full details, but I think it was prompting for the user to overwrite an existing configuration, leave it, etc. I couldn't find the process that was actually running that, and sudo wouldn't accept either the default xbmc password (should be 'xbmc') nor the password for my newly-created user account.
I tried to re-install again and had the same exact problem. I did try to boot from the hard drive after the hung initial attempt, and while the system got stuck on the boot screen (XBMC with the progress indicator moving) I was able to ssh in using the newly created user ID. I've tried uninstalling and re-installing xbmc and xbmc-live using apt-get from the command line, but I suspect that I'm not doing something right and now when I boot after the initial loading screen comes up, the console goes blank. I'm able to ssh into the box (I figured out what DHCP address it was getting) so the system is running, but I'm kind of at a loss at this point.
I'd like to try to keep my existing configuration if I can, but unless someone has an idea shortly I'm going to do a from-scratch install and hope that I wind up OK.
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How long did you leave it for? According to Mr. Zero's link, should be at least 3 hours.
As I said though, I gave up (before there was any replies in this thread). Aborted and did a clean install. Yes, now I have to set everything up again and rebuild my library, but it's not too big a deal.
