[aesalazar]

HI everyone. I am running Frodo on Ubuntu Minimal 12.10 on an SSD inside an Intel NUC i3 with 8 gig of ram. I have it to the point where I think it is stable and usable. But everyone once in a while it or I will do something that will crash XBMC and I need to ssh in to call a restart since the PC is in a media closet on the top shelf.

Is there a way to get it to automatically restart or - better yet - reboot the entire system to start from a clean slate AFTER a crash? I set it up to auto run on boot based on the very nice script put together by Bram77:

https://raw.github.com/Bram77/xbmc-ubunt...all_2_6.sh

I didnt actually run the script, just cherry picked which parts I needed so I can both learn a little and keep things as simple as possible. For the auto start, I used the function "installXbmcInitScript" as a guide which, from my basic understanding of linux, adds the xbmc script file to the list of Services for the OS (update-rc.d):

https://github.com/Bram77/xbmc-ubuntu-mi...nit_script

Thanks
Ernie

[teeedubb]

You can use irexec to map a remote button to restart/reboot xbmc when it crashes.

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...id=1446466

Its instructions for openelec so you will need to change some of the directories/file locations.

[wsnipex]

using the upstart method will give you auto restarts on xbmc crash, but only on real crashes, not lockups.

[aesalazar]

Thanks guys.

I tried the upstart method. After doing it my smb connections stopped working - nothing would connection. I backed out the changes and went back to the orginal init script and all is as it should be. Does that make sense?

teee, I will look into your method. I would still prefer something automatic but that fact that your technique would work on lock ups as well is pretty cool.

Ernie

[wsnipex]

the upstart script might start too fast if you need network to be up first. adding something like "and net-device-up" to the "start on" section will probably help.