I was just wondering if anyone might be able to assist me with an issue I’m facing, please?
The other night the Vero 4k+ was stuck trying to play a video, with the circle going round & round. So I used the; “stop, start, restart mediacenter” command.
On boot, a black code screen appeared with the following; “Started Update UTMP about System Runlevel Changes” for a few hours.
After letting the update run, the system no longer responded on the TV, so I followed this post. OSMC Hanging on Boot - #4 by DBMandrake
I think after that I also ran “sudo apt-get -f install” as a last try. Letting that complete, I tried to restart the system the following day (This morning) and now find myself stuck in an infinite loop with the blue sad face.
I have tried to include as much info as I could think of, but if I’m missing something, please do ask. oh and this is a link to the logs; https://paste.osmc.tv/zajasimivu
Before reinstalling, would there be any way for me to backup a few things like;
kodi/system settings, autofs mount media sources, media libraries & watched history, current scrapper settings and anything else that might be appropriate or worthwhile?
Just before I do reinstall, I have simply logged into WinSCP & copied the folder “osmc” within “home” as well as the “etc” folder both onto my PC.
After reinstall I simply “copy and overwrite” again using WinSCP
And doing this would make it exactly how it was before reinstall, is there really nothing else I would have to do?
Just would like to check before hand I’ve not missed anything, just in case.
Watch out .kodi is a hidden folder under /home/osmc so ensure that you have show hidden folders activated in WinSCP.
Also /etc would need root access.
Maybe easier to create tar containers and then just copy those via winSCP.
sudo tar -cvzf "etc_backup_$(date '+%Y%m%d').tgz" /etc
tar -cvzf "home_backup_$(date '+%Y%m%d').tgz" /home/osmc/
before you run the second command check that you have enough space du -h will tell you how much size you need df -h will tell you how much space you have on /
Afterwards just copy the files via WinSCP.
Alternative as you have mapped your NAS via autofs you also can directly write the tar files on the NAS>
Ahh thanks for the tip to unhide!
Yes, I gave myself root just now for the “etc” however, a few files ended up missing after copy, so I will also try the tar containers too.
If copying directly to the NAS, would I simply change “/home/osmc/” to the IP of the NAS?
heyyy,
sorry to keep being a hassle. However, an error code returned while trying to reinstall. Removing vero3-mediacenter-osmc (19.1.0-16) ... Errors were encountered while processing: vero3-device-osmc E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) root@osmc:~# grab-logs -A
I’m just waiting for the logs to generate, but any ideas in the interim?
What do you mean with reinstall? We were referring to full reinstall therefore you did the backup (BTW did you validated your TAR files have all the content?
Sorry yes Full reinstall using the command from the first post “Commandline: /usr/bin/apt-get-real install --reinstall rbp2-mediacenter-osmc”
Should I do a full reinstall using a downloaded image onto an SD card?
ahh ahha I may have skipped that part of validating the TAR files
That would still be the wrong package!!! “rbp2” is the package for Raspberry Pi. You should never use that package on the Vero. The package for the Vero is vero3-mediacenter-osmc but before you reinstall that you would need to remove rbp2-mediacenter-osmc and all its dependencies which might not be possible. Therefore we recommend reinstall from USB/SD Card.
Just open them and check if you see the files inside.
oh it did quite a bit, I suppose that I was a little confused on how to go about it
If I’m extracting the archive using “-xvzf” current directory, does that mean that the file needs to be placed inside the appropriate folder? EG. tgz etc placed inside the “etc” folder
Or can both the “etc” and “osmc” archives be placed inside “home/osmc” while executing the command?
Sorry If I’m not quite picking up on some of the more obvious details. I’m in the process of configuring an older Procurve and bonded trunks.
No, the path (without the leading / was stored in the TGZ therefore we change to / first with cd /.
As mentioned if you install MC you can just look into the TGZ to see the strucutre of the files inside.
You don’t need to copy the TGZ first you just unpack them from the USB stick
oh and this is a link to the logs; https://paste.osmc.tv/zajasimivu
