System Hijacked By XBMC

[Ric Moore]

On 09/12/2013 11:35 AM, R Kimber wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 23:34:37 -0700
> Ernest Doub wrote:
>
>> My wifes old HP Media Center PC running Ubuntu 12.10 seems to have been
>> hijacked by XBMC.
>
> I'm not an expert, but you might be able to edit the boot options at the
> grub screen.  Then you could have a look at /etc/default/grub and see if
> there is reference to xbmc in the "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=" line. If so,
> I imagine that removing that would stop it loading on boot. Or if you want
> to get rid of it altogether you could uninstall it, using synaptic perhaps.

I believe he installed the server package. That will take over the 
machine to make a dedicated household entertainment center out of a 
computer. Ric


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