Posts by ktiix

Ok - that worked! LE is running and booting fast, and my backup has been restored! Everything is there except for the saved connection to my bluetooth keyboard, but that was easy enough to add back in. I'll call this fully resolved now. Thanks again for the help!

Quote from VLouis

It's many way to do that:

With the same "live linux" method you can access the "Backup" folder and to copy back the backup package (.tar file).

Sorry, when I say the /storage is read-only, I mean that the live linux does not have permission to move files here. Is there a setting in LE that I need to toggle so other OS has permissions to add files here?

Ok, I put a live linux on a usb drive (using Rufus), and booted ubuntu on my windows laptop. Copied the backup file over, then put a new LE install on the SD card. It booted super fast, no errors, and I have reconnected my bluetooth keyboard.

I know that I had pulled the power cable pretty often on the old install - so I am guessing that was most of the cause for corrupted files and the boot problems. I didn't see proper options to power it down before (on 12.0.2), but now that I have 12.2.1 installed, there is a power down option in the power menu.

Now that it is running again, I want to put the backup file I made back on the sd card. But the backup folder (the entire STORAGE drive) is read-only. How can I put my backup file back into this folder? Or should I put it in the LIBREELEC part of the drive, and just locate it from there when restoring it in Kodi?

Thanks for all your help so far, it feels like I am getting close to having a smooth system again!

I did make a backup using the tool in settings on the last boot. I copied all the contents of the sd card to my laptop, but I don't see any file or folder clearly labelled as backup. There are kernel.img, kernel.img.md5, SYSTEM.md5 files... are any of these relevant here?

Or should I be doing a full clone of the drive with usbimager or something like this?

Oh wow. This system has been running for only about 6 months, on a new Samsung A2 EVO sd card. Is there a way to increase the lifespan of the card? That's a hefty price to shell out on this frequent basis if this is normal for a card to die this fast.

My LibreELEC kodi is running on Raspi 5. It is LibreElec 12.0.2.

On the boot screen is reads 30+ errors, starting with:

LibreELEC (official):12.0.2
[FAILED] Failed to start systemd-modules-load.service.
[FAILED] Failed to start systend-hwdb-update.service.
[FAILED] Failed to start rpcbind.service.
[FAILED] Failed to start lwd.service.

The full list here:

It does eventually boot, but takes 70+ minutes to finally get there.

Here is the link generated by pastekodi: https://paste.libreelec.tv/adapted-wombat.log

I haven't found a repair tool inside the kodi interface ... is there an easy way to fix these errors?