[Stephen Young]

Hi,

I recently upgraded from XBMCLive to Eden by doing a dist-upgrade. Since I did this I get dropped into a terminal prompt when I start the machine instead of the XBMC front end. If I run startx XBMC Eden launches successfully.

I have tried the advice given in the following threads:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=123186
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=114069
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=97945

I don't want to do a fresh install as I have Sickbeard, CouchPotato, SABnzB+ and Headphones running on that same box. Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks,
Stephen

[frmudj]

I had the same problem after upgrading from XBMCLive 10.1 to Eden. I tried
service xbmc-live start
without success.

I read about the XBMC-Autostart-Procedure. Look for
/etc/init/xbmc-live.conf
It's a script which gets executed by the Init-Process at startup. It has been exchanged by the upgrade and the new version didn't work for me.
Replace the script with the one from the 10.1-Install. If you don't have a backup, PM me, I'll send it to you.
reboot
And XBMC startet automatically as it should and did before.

Regards, Thomas

[matt77303]

try this...

log in to your xbmc installation via putty

then

sudo nano /etc/init/xbmc.conf

then copy and paste the below in to it

# xbmc-standalone
description "Autostart XBMC"

start on (filesystem and stopped udevtrigger)
stop on runlevel [06]

task
console output
emits starting-x

exec /bin/su xbmc -c "/usr/bin/startx /etc/X11/Xsession /usr/bin/xbmc-standalone"

on the bottom line replace xbmc with your username you use to log into putty.

Matt

[toastboy]

Thank you Matt, that fixed it for me.

Just posting this in case anyone else wonders as I did whether to make a new file called xbmc.conf or paste the magic lines above into the existing xbmc-live.conf. I did the former and it works beautifully.

[matt77303]

Np

Matt