Hi all, as the topic says, i’m trying to bring my RPi back to life. I’ve been up and down the forum trying to stuff via PuTTY and OSMC’s direct command line but to no avail.
these two threads have been the closest results i end up getting: especially this one… i can get my IP but OSMC says i have no connection (eth0 no internet) - but swapping the cable to a LAN connection in my router; i can now access it via PuTTY.
and trying the sudo apt-get update just produces these symptoms:
This RPi was sold to us as a complete unit and worked fine around 2017. Our local internet speeds are fairly bad so it got harder and longer to use Kodi, so I eventually just left it to gather dust. But I would like to give it one last try.
Any advice would be great. I’ve enabled logging on my OSMC but still quite raw to it so I’ll try to do the best I can.
cheers!
Matt
Well logs and a copy/paste of what is the output of sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get dist-upgrade might put us into a position to help you.
To get a better understanding of the problem you are experiencing we need more information from you. The best way to get this information is for you to upload logs that demonstrate your problem. You can learn more about how to submit a useful support request here.
Depending on the used skin you have to set the settings-level to standard or higher, in summary:
enable debug logging at settings->system->logging
reboot the OSMC device
reproduce the issue
upload the log set either using the Log Uploader method within the My OSMC menu in the GUI or the ssh method invoking command grab-logs -A
publish the provided URL from the log set upload, here
Thanks for your understanding. We hope that we can help you get up and running again shortly.
Is there anything precious you have on that 2-year-old install? There was a major upgrade at the end of 2017 which may no longer work. If I were you I would install a new image and if you really must copy across the .kodi directory from the old SD card.
Nothing precious at all - we rarely used it except for certain tv shows; one of which has just started back up again…hence why I am giving this another go!
I’ve often thought about this option: just wiping it and starting new. Would it be more effort to do this or can it be easily done?
No effort at all, just download installer from Download - OSMC to write a current image to the SD Card. Only effort is to reconfigure your customization.
Well that Depends on your LAN.
If you have a router that acts as a DHCP server than yo do DHCP else Static.
But currently it seem DHCP that is not working
This is an old source that isn’t available anymore.
So that is the point why a reinstall is recommended.
You could try an upgrade manually but it might get working
so the update went through succesfully - i now have kodi 17.6 (asaik this is the latest version). everything is wiped but i have no problems with that. i can start over. maybe it was just a new router that i needed to help it update?
