2012-01-23, 18:52
I know this is not XBMC specific but it does effect my XBMC install so I thought I'd post here and see where it goes.
After my XBMC install completely dumped me I have decided it's clever to keep a backup in case I have to deal with this again. I am doing this by tarballing my /private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC and saving elsewhere.
This is where the problem lies. In trying to move the tarball the internal "network card" fails. This has been the same with 4.3 and 4.4.4. Very occasionally there's no problem but most of the time I get part way through the download and it just stops. I thought it might be sshd failing but from then on I am unable to ping the ATV2 and while it keeps running and I can navigate menus it's unable to see anything ie Frontrow doesn't load the info about the films it's trying to sell.
On reboot all's good again.
The ATV2 is on a wired connection and the rest of my network is fine when this happens. This happens with both SFTP and SCP when using WinSCP on Win7-64 and Nautilus on Ubuntu32 11.10. It's the same whether XBMC is running or not. Strangely I've just uploaded a file that's far larger that the tarball to the ATV2 without issue, just to see if it would have the same result.
Anyone have any ideas ? This is a major PITA, I'd like to automate this process but it's not possible as it stands.
After my XBMC install completely dumped me I have decided it's clever to keep a backup in case I have to deal with this again. I am doing this by tarballing my /private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC and saving elsewhere.
This is where the problem lies. In trying to move the tarball the internal "network card" fails. This has been the same with 4.3 and 4.4.4. Very occasionally there's no problem but most of the time I get part way through the download and it just stops. I thought it might be sshd failing but from then on I am unable to ping the ATV2 and while it keeps running and I can navigate menus it's unable to see anything ie Frontrow doesn't load the info about the films it's trying to sell.
On reboot all's good again.
The ATV2 is on a wired connection and the rest of my network is fine when this happens. This happens with both SFTP and SCP when using WinSCP on Win7-64 and Nautilus on Ubuntu32 11.10. It's the same whether XBMC is running or not. Strangely I've just uploaded a file that's far larger that the tarball to the ATV2 without issue, just to see if it would have the same result.
Anyone have any ideas ? This is a major PITA, I'd like to automate this process but it's not possible as it stands.