Apple TV 2 – XBMC Crashing to FrontRow (including adding an SMB share) Fix

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An issue I have had is that XBMC on ATV2 was very unstable, for example a movie scan, a period of inactivity or adding an SMB folder would crash it to FrontRow. However it seems to be an issue with having ATV Flash Black and XBMC together. Follow the guide below to see if it helps you.

1. Power on ATV device to FrontRow (home screen)

2. Select Maintence

3. Scroll down to Media Player

4. Select and Remove Media Player

4. Reboot ATV2

Hopefully this will fix major instability issues. If it has or hasn’t, please comment and I will try to help.

Apple TV 2 – XBMC Crashes Back to FrontRow Immediately on Start Up Fix

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When loading XBMC from the Apple TV FrontRow it immediately crashes back to FrontRow.

1 – Download and install WinSCP - http://winscp.net/eng/download.php

2. Open WinSCP Put in your details and Press Login
Host Name = ‘YOUR ATV2 IP’ (e.g. 192.168.1.101)
User Name = root
Password = ‘YOUR ATV2 PASSWORD’ (default is ‘alpine’ no quotes)

3.  Navigate to /private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/userdata/Database/

4. Delete all database files (files ending with *.db)

5. Close WinSCP

6. Reboot ATV2

Apple TV 2 – Type ‘.deb’ is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xbmc.list Fix

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E: Type ‘.deb’ is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xbmc.list

After playing around with the Apple TV 2 for a few nights, this error gave me a bit of a headache, and not many people seem to have posted a fix. After playing around I managed to get a fix.

1 – Download and install WinSCP - http://winscp.net/eng/download.php

2. Open WinSCP Put in your details and Press Login
Host Name = ‘YOUR ATV2 IP’ (e.g. 192.168.1.101)
User Name = root
Password = ‘YOUR ATV2 PASSWORD’ (default is ‘alpine’ no quotes)

3.  Navigate to /private/etc/apt/sources.list.d

4. Open xbmc.list

5. Change:
.deb http://mirrors.xbmc.org/apt/atv2 ./.
TO
#echo http://mirrors.xbmc.org/apt/atv2 ./.

6. Save and reboot ATV2

7. If all has gone well this error should now have gone when installing or updating Apps