Mediacenter appears to be restarting, blue screen frownie face

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So basically, after the november update the mediacenter.

I’m not sure if I’m facing similar technical problems as November update: Unhappy face loop at boot , but these are the steps that I’ve tried:

press ‘esc’ on frownieface, gained shell → logged in:

  • mount -o rw /boot
  • nano /boot/cmdline.txt
  • appended init=/bin/bash to file mentioned above
  • rebooted, directly went into shell
  • fsck’ed mmcblk0p2, all seemed good
  • fsck’ed mmcblk0p1, removed sticky/dirty bit (can’t remember, think it’s sticky)
  • mount -o rw /boot
  • nano /boot/cmdline.txt
  • removed the init=/bin/bash part
  • echo s >/proc/sysrq-trigger
  • echo u >/proc/sysrq-trigger
  • echo b >/proc/sysrq-trigger
  • system booted, still had crashing mediacenter
  • noticed while starting up that transmission had failed to load
  • sudo systemctl disable mediacenter
  • sudo systemctl disable transmission
  • sudo reboot
  • system booting, halted at:
    [TIME] Timed out waiting for device dev-disk-by …randomidblabla
    [DEPEND] Dependency failed for /mnt/TOSHIBA
    [DEPEND]Dependency failed for File System Check on /dev/disk…differentidthanabove

now it’s just sitting there. Any clue how to at least get me back in to a shell, and even better - fix the mediacenter crashing? I’m aware of the paste-log command, just need to get into a shell first :stuck_out_tongue:

p.s. re-installing is not an option, unfortunately

edit:

  • put SD card in pc, added init=/bin/bash manually
  • put back in raspberry
  • mount -o rw /
  • systemctl enable mediacenter
  • mount -o rw /boot
  • nano /boot/cmdline.txt
  • removed init=/bin/bash
  • echo s >/proc/sysrq-trigger
  • echo u >/proc/sysrq-trigger
  • echo b >/proc/sysrq-trigger
  • booted into mediacenter again, still crashing
  • sudo journalctl | paste-log = “contained link, not relevant anymore”
  • paste-log /home/osmc/.kodi/temp/kodi.log = “contained link, not relevant anymore”

this seems relevant:

Dec 11 23:29:16 OSMC mediacenter[338]: Could not init logging classes. Permission errors on ~/.kodi (/home/osmc/.kodi/temp/)
Dec 11 23:29:16 OSMC mediacenter[338]: ERROR: Unable to create application. Exiting
Dec 11 23:29:16 OSMC sudo[401]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user osmc
Dec 11 23:29:16 OSMC mediacenter[338]: Kodi exited with return code 255 after 0 hours, 0 minutes and 4 seconds

fixed. For some reason I probably entered a wrong command, but my whole /home/osmc/ folder was owned by www-data. Such Linux pro, much wow.

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fixed