Raspberry Pi freezing

[baseline]

I've been having some problems with my raspberry pi and was hoping I could get some help.

I set it up late February as a media center - it's a fairly simple setup, running xbmc, transmission and sickbeard for videos and netatalk, avahi, openssh and svn behind the scenes. I used the method described here http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=32464 to get xbmc booting on startup as a daemon.

I ran few updates until last weekend, and when prompted I looked up and installed the optional dependancies to xbmc including xorg to use the provided systemd service. I removed the script etc which I had been using and enabled the proper service.

Shortly after the -Syu the pi suffered a catastrophic freeze, causing first XBMC, then AFP, SSH and keyboard input to lock up, leaving me with an unresponsive system I had no choice but to pull the plug on. Doing so left my SD card unbootable, even after re-imaging from a known good backup.

I spent Sunday reinstalling from scratch on a 2GB card - thank god I kept notes. It was a breeze to rebuild the system as it was before, but the Pi has been suffering from the same problems - first the clock will freeze on xbmc and my iOS remote will stop working, sometimes I can continue to connect and execute commands via SSH, then eventually all will become unresponsive.

At this point, if I can still connect via SSH, the system will hang trying to execute reboot or systemctl restart commands. Luckily when I have pulled the plug the SD card has remained intact.

As I'm sure many people share a similar set of installed software on their raspberry pis, I was wondering if any of these symptoms are known, or if anyone could help me by pointing out any possible problems. The only lead I have is that xbmc is often the first link in the chain to break, and if anyone could tell me how it previously worked without xorg (was it running on the framebuffer?) it might give me something to investigate. Any other ideas or suggestions as to what's wrong with my Pi would be gratefully received.

[pepedog]

There is a problem with latest xorg
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... 53&t=38568

[baseline]

Thanks pepedog! Glad to know it's not just me. I'm taking an image of the SD now, will chance an episode of Mad Men later and then it's only getting booted to check for updates. <3 bleeding edge, hehe.

[baseline]

I'm still having the same problems after the xorg package updates released in the last day or so.

[pepedog]

You are really running all those things at the same time?
I would think transmission and sickbeard might be a bit too much, transmission alone if you strain to the max could give problems. Can you stop services and find out what's causing grief? I think you are being too ambitious.