[George]

When I try to install the xbmc-live package from SVN on my Lucid machine the setup exits with this error:

Setting up xbmc-live (1:10.08~svn32246-lucid1) ...
update-rc.d: warning: /etc/init.d/xbmc-live missing LSB information
update-rc.d: see <http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts>
start: Unknown job: xbmc-live
invoke-rc.d: initscript xbmc-live, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing xbmc-live (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
xbmc-live
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I searched the forums and Google but I assume I must be blind since I cannot find the solution anywhere. Does anyone have a clue about how to fix this?

[Vankwish]

What method are you using to install?

[George]

the "sudo apt-get install xbmc-live" method.

[divingmule]

XBMC "Live" is to be installed from a bootable CD,USB http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=XBMC_Live

I think what your looking for is

Code:

sudo apt-get install xbmc

[George]

That I know, of course. What I was looking for (and had installed on my 9.04 box) was an autostarting Ubuntu box, just like a settopbox. And I had it running, the xbmc-live package but after the last updates it just won't install anymore.

When I delete the symbolic link xbmc-live in /etc/init.d which points to upstart.d and make a new symbolic link called xbmc-live pointing to xbmc-live.dpkg-new it works rather well, combined with the usual grub settings. But when I do an sudo apt-get upgrade the xbmc-live package keeps on blocking the rest of the updates...

[BurningSky]

Do not create a new symbolic link, just remove xbmc-live and xbmc-live.dpkg in /etc/init.d/

Code:

sudo rm /etc/init.d/xbmc-live*

Now install xbmc-live:

Code:

sudo apt-get install xbmc-live

This works for me.

[George]

Thanks for your help but I did that, but still the same error.


xbmc@darthvader:/etc/init.d$ sudo apt-get install xbmc-live
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
xbmc-live is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
launchpad-integration liblaunchpad-integration1
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up xbmc-live (1:10.08~svn32246-lucid1) ...
update-rc.d: warning: /etc/init.d/xbmc-live missing LSB information
update-rc.d: see <http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts>
start: Unknown job: xbmc-live
invoke-rc.d: initscript xbmc-live, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing xbmc-live (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
xbmc-live
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[George]

For future reference, this did the trick:

Code:

sudo apt-get purge xbmc-live
sudo rm /etc/init.d/xbmc*
sudo apt-get install xbmc-live

And after that I had to manually remove this:

Code:

sudo rm /var/lib/update-rc.d/xbmc-live

Many thanks for helping, everyone.

[slashr]

i also had this issue when i resintalled yesterday , and i guess it's an issue with the nightly build or so .

Anyway xbmc starts up fine but before it launches there's an error message saying :

(process : 315): GLib-WARNING : getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id (0)

do you also get that message and any known fix ? only started happening since i got the xbmc error at install about :

update-rc.d: warning: /etc/init.d/xbmc-live missing LSB information
update-rc.d: see <http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts>

thanks

weird thing is that even tho mine gave those errors it still installed fine and auto started , just the error message on every boot is annoying me now , gah

[George]

i also had this issue when i resintalled yesterday , and i guess it's an issue with the nightly build or so .

Anyway xbmc starts up fine but before it launches there's an error message saying :

(process : 315): GLib-WARNING : getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id (0)

do you also get that message and any known fix ? only started happening since i got the xbmc error at install about :

update-rc.d: warning: /etc/init.d/xbmc-live missing LSB information
update-rc.d: see <http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts>

I think this has something to do with the conversion from init.d jobs to upstart jobs. Don't know what to do about it though but as long as it works...