AppleTV 2 (black) Upgrading from 4.1.1

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automaton Offline
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I have an ATV 2 running 4.1.1

I understand that upgrading past 4.3 would not be good, but I'm not having much luck finding a way to upgrade without going to current.

If somebody could point me in the right direction I'd be very grateful.

I already have root on the ATV 2

Or should I just leave it on 4.1.1 ?
(This post was last modified: 2012-06-23 23:29 by automaton.)
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Memphiz Offline
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your last question tells me that you don't know any reason for updating. With that as an assumption i would say "never change a running system".

AppleTV2/iPhone/iPod: HowTo find debug logs and everything else which the devs like so much: click here
HowTo setup NFS for XBMC: Wiki NFS
HowTo configure avahi (zeroconf): Wiki Avahi
READ THE IOS FAQ!: iOS FAQ
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its not running "perfectly".

I hadn't used it since I managed to get an ATV1, as the video quality was better on my display (720p plasma) using the ATV1 than the ATV2 (this was some time ago), however I upgraded it to Eden yesterday and have experienced some "crashes" where it goes back to the Apple display as per http://wiki.xbmc.org/images/thumb/6/6b/A...ware_4.jpg and wondwered if an upgrade to 4.3 might be an idea.

the crashes have happened when scanning my network shares

I should have put more information in the original question, apologies, it was late, I was tired...
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Ned Scott Offline
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Throw up a debug log and we can tell you if it's something an update would help with (doubtful, but you never know): iOS XBMC.log

You can make easy links to the XBMC wiki using double brackets around words: [[debug log]] = debug log, [[Add-on:YouTube]] = Add-on:YouTube, [[Adding videos to the library]] = Adding videos to the library, [[userdata]] = userdata, etc
(This post was last modified: 2012-06-25 00:12 by Ned Scott.)
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automaton Offline
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I cleaned the library, rebooted, then started a library scan

debug log when it crashed
http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=4086

debug log for next startup after crash
http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=4087
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Ned just fyi ... its the b0rked 11.0-3 crash we have here.

Automaton if you want to try you can maybe fix it by doing the following:

Try exchanging the file /Applications/XBMC.frappliance/Frameworks/libsmbclient.dylib.0 with that one from here:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/30371861/libsmbclient.dylib.0

Then restart your ATV2 and report back if the crash is still there.

AppleTV2/iPhone/iPod: HowTo find debug logs and everything else which the devs like so much: click here
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HowTo configure avahi (zeroconf): Wiki Avahi
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automaton Offline
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Apologies for the delay.

I've renamed the existing as .old, copied the new file in place (scp), rebooted, cleaned the library, and scanned for new content with no errors :-)

Many thanks!

Now I need to get my head around doing it properly with a shared database etc...
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Memphiz Offline
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thx for testing ... we cook something up which will be called 11.0-4 and won't be something special but a clean buildbot build from Eden with iOS 5 support.

AppleTV2/iPhone/iPod: HowTo find debug logs and everything else which the devs like so much: click here
HowTo setup NFS for XBMC: Wiki NFS
HowTo configure avahi (zeroconf): Wiki Avahi
READ THE IOS FAQ!: iOS FAQ
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