[The-Boxhead]

Okay sorry for prolly not giving enough information but
im new to linux.

Per Olympias guide i manged to download latest svn and build it and it
worked fine. however i messed up some stuff and decided to delete
everything and make a fresh build.

After building wich all seemd to go okay xbmc doesent start anymore.
I get flashing screen.

Could someone explain this:
Trough ssh i see that i have the following directorys
\home\xbmc
\home\.xbmc
\usr\share\xbmc

My startup script seems to load xbmc.bin from \usr\share\xbmc

What folder is really used for xbmc ? i can see that \home\xbmc still
has content from my old install...

So what do i delete to start from completely fresh xbmc ?
is there any logs i can check out to see whats going on now ?

Xorg and all that stuff is okay since it worked perfectly before i built new xbmc from svn...

any help\hint is welcomed

[The-Boxhead]

okay i redid everything and now im closer.

However xbmc doesent start.

My xorg.conf log file seems to be working correctly:
http://pastebin.com/m656619bf

But i bellive there is something wrong with my runXBMC.sh script
http://pastebin.com/me42f75d

Is there some logs i can investigate to debug this or does anyone
see anything wrong with my script ?

[User 34959]

From a linux noob to another.. If you compile XBMC yourself, shouldn't it go to /usr/local/share/xbmc and startup script to /usr/local/bin?
Do you now have 2 XBMC versions installed, one which was compiled by you and one installed from repository (under /usr/share/xbmc)?

\home\xbmc -> propably your svn checkout directory
\home\.xbmc -> your XBMC profile

Check synaptic if you have XBMC installed from a repository and remove it.

[olympia]

How do you come to the conclusion, that your runXBMC.sh get wrong if it worked properly earlier

Code:

cd $home/XBMC
sudo make uninstall
make reallyclean
svn up
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-pulse
make
sudo make install

[The-Boxhead]

what can i say olympia... once again your magic commands saves
my ass again

Typed in your commands and xbmc is up and running !! whoooaa

What would i do without experts like you, thank you thank you sir !

[The-Boxhead]

cd $home/XBMC
sudo make uninstall
make reallyclean
svn up
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-pulse
make
sudo make install

Just a request, could this be added as an appendix to Olympias great wiki
guide about installing linux and xbmc ? This is a nice addition if something
goes wrong and you wanna start from scratch again...

Also in this guide would it be possible to add a section about
different ways to upgrade linux/xbmc system ? I usually just do apt-get update/upgrade but i have seen so many different ways and it's kinda confusing if im updating just xbmx or my linux stuff.

Oh and also where to find the important log files if something goes wrong, i know that xorg.log and xbmc.log is nice to check out but there might be more here ?

As said earlier i really hope someone can keep this exelent wiki guide maintained, as it is extremely valuable to thos new to linux.

i would help out my self but im to dumb when it comes to linux

[The-Boxhead]

Okay bumping this one.