I always forget the command for restarting XBMC Live from the shell, so I figured I would post it to my blog. It's a really simple, one-line command:

sudo /etc/init.d/xbmc-live restart

Then enter the password for the root account (typically 'xbmc').

Just to be clear, the benefit of running this command instead of a full reboot (sudo reboot) is the above command only restarts the XBMC Live application. This means if you have any other services or apps running (like SABnzbd+), you can keep those apps running.

The only reason I've ever really needed the xbmc-live restart command is when something gets locked up on XBMC... and that usually only happens when I'm trying out new skins or plugins.

I should also note that on occasion this command will not restart XBMC live. The alternative is to stop, then start XBMC again using the following commands:

sudo /etc/init.d/xbmc-live stop
sudo /etc/init.d/xbmc-live start 

Comments (2)

Lol, recognize your problem

Thanks for posting that online, it was bugging me too :-)

Grtz,

Martin

Martin van Dijken , October 13, 2010

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and another two ways to do it is:

# service xbmc-live restart
# /etc/init.d/xbmc-live restart

#- means that command should be execute from root shell

magzcheg , May 15, 2011

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