There was a failure in a dist-upgrade earlier but I had solved it after performing:
umount /boot
fsck.hfsplus -f /dev/sda1
mount -o force,rw /dev/sda1 /boot
I searched for ‘partially installed kernel’ and found Failed update, now "no updates available" - #4 by DBMandrake which led to the following commands and output:
root@osmc:/home/osmc# dpkg --configure -a
root@osmc:/home/osmc# apt-get -f dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
I checked the output of:
root@osmc:/home/osmc# service avahi status
* avahi.service
Loaded: not-found (Reason: No such file or directory)
Active: inactive (dead)
However I can log into the server with ssh via
ssh osmc@osmc.local