[apex82]

Installed to my HDD over windows 7... can type a login when booting up but wont show any characters when trying to type password... therefore it always results in "login incorrect". I would like to go back to windows 7 but I cant because the drives are no longer NTFS format and cant be formatted with win 7 install disk!! I cant find an option to get my HDD back to NTFS through the xbmc live disk.... please help.

[outleradam]

Try formatting to fat32 first.

[apex82]

I am an idiot.... It doent show any characters but you can still type in password and it will work.... I just figured because cursor was not moving with each keypress that something was messed. I also selected the delete drive button on windows 7 install cd and that made it so it could be formatted....

[328iGuy]

I am an idiot.... It doent show any characters but you can still type in password and it will work.... I just figured because cursor was not moving with each keypress that something was messed. I also selected the delete drive button on windows 7 install cd and that made it so it could be formatted....

Obviously not a *nix user

It helps working with it daily for a career hehe!

[erhnam]

boot into safe mode/recovery mode

type sudo vi /etc/hosts

make it look like this

Code:

127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.1.1       XBMCLive.dummy.net      XBMCLive

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

type ave then :quit to save and exit

do happy dance.

I'll create a new livecd version with your suggested fix and see if it's gone!

[dewen]

have the same problem, then
at the XBMCLive login prompt, I type "xbmc" and "xbmc" as ID and password,
then I type "startx"
it will load a simple GUI,
right-click mouse at desktop invoke "flubox" menu,
then choose Application -> shell -> Bash,
it will open a terminal window,
then I type "xbmc", and it works........ but you must do it everytime...

If I boot with 9.0.4 Live CD, it works without any problem.

Hope this will help to find what's wrong with Live CD.

Test Machine :

1. IBM T42 NB with ATI Mobile Radeon 9000, must choose "Intel" and it will use MESA driver.

2. Desktop PC : Intel P4 CPU 2.8G, ATI 9800 ( all-in-wonder ), 2G RAM

[erhnam]

Changing the line from:

Code:

127.0.1.1       XBMCLive

to:

Code:

127.0.1.1       XBMCLive.dummy.net      XBMCLive

Doesn't fix the problem btw. I'll create a ticket for this one!
Ticket is here; http://www.xbmc.org/trac/ticket/8579

[derechteversus]

I experienced the same, dewen did, I am using a 8200 IGP and athlon 235e, 4GB ram, using the fetch=:// , noredir, toram kernel boot options. starting xbmc from within fluxbox works but is very slow, seems like IGP acceleration is missing.

here is what I can find in Xorg.0.log: http://pastebin.com/m7007e318 after doing startx in bash

hope this helps, to fix the bug, outleradams workaround didnt work for me

P.S.:
although I am loading the squashfs file from a server, nvidia.ext3 is still on the same usb stick as grub and the kernel

[derechteversus]

it looks like the nvidia driver isnt loaded, but nv instead

[derechteversus]

I installed xbmc on a usb stick and booted it like a normal hdd, and a xorg.conf was created (working perfectly with the nvidia driver). I did not change the hardware Then I booted the live cd image (filesystem.squashfs) and mentioned, that there was no /etc/X11xorg.conf. I unpacked the filesystem.squashfs and added the xorg.conf to it (not doing anything else) and repacked it. after booting the new filesystem squashfs, xbmc did not start up, neither did fluxbox ( startx did not work) but there was a Xorg.0.log.old (probably created at boot up): http://pastebin.com/m4b66445 and a Xorg.0.log (probably created, when I typed in startx): http://pastebin.com/m23926848 . As far as I can see, the problem is, that the kernel modules are not loaded. But I dont know much about that, I hope someone can help.

[erhnam]

Looks like this is fixed: http://www.xbmc.org/trac/changeset/27161

[derechteversus]

The problem I describe is not directly related to /etc/passwd- to 0600, as it keeps X server from starting, which reveals the message above. Should I create a new Thread?

[derechteversus]

if someone should run into the same problem, I did: I solved it by copying all the files from nvidia.ext3 into filesystem.squashfs

[onemanclapping]

I'm sorry, I failed to understand if this issue was resolved or not. I read the entire thread and my problem seems to be the same, as described here: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=69667

Please help me, the computer is not so old...

[tom101]

Just got this very same error.

Downloaded XBMC live from http://xbmc.org/download/. Burned to a CD. Inserted in an IBM Thinkpad T41. Splashscreen. Error

Did I do something wrong? This is my first attempt at using XBMC

Thanks.

Tom