I had the same problem???

How did you solve the problem?

Go to the AkwardTV wiki page and download the latest softwaremenu which fixes 
these 
bugs. 

http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/SoftwareMenu

Thank you for your help, although I am having trouble with the ssh section.  
When I open up my terminal and 
put in the information it will not allow me to type the password.  No typing 
appears. 

This is what I am trying to do:

Open the Terminal window and type :

ssh frontrow@(my address)

the password is: frontrow 

I cant type the password, my mac will not let me do it.  How can I overcome 
this?

I DID IT!  
All sorted, wonderful.  I have boxee.
Thank you for all your help.

Any News on when the patchstick creator will be ready ?

I hate answers like this but I have to say:

It will be ready when it's ready.

1. Update yfour AppleTV to 3.01
2. Build a Patchstick using the atvusb-creator and the latest firmware (google:
download atv 3.01 dmg)
3. Reboot AppleTV with attached PatchStick and wait for success message
4. ssh to your apple tv (terminal: ssh frontrow@appletv.local ; password: 
frontrow)
5. use cyberduck (or similar sftp tool) to copy the .run file from
http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/SoftwareMenu to your home directory
6. change owner rights to 755
7. execute .run file from terminal (terminal: SoftwareMenu-1.0b1.run) and 
follow the
output on terminal
8. to install XMBC / Boxee Launcher repeat the steps 5-7 with this file:
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/858897/XBMC/Launcher-3.2.beta3-debug.run

Done

Hi. Sorry to keep beating this same horse, but I have the same 
inaccessible "software menu" issue after successfully updating the ATV w/ 
patchstick.  I am running Vista on the PC and 3.0.1 on the ATV.  Not familiar 
with 
ssh.  I don't know where to input frontrow password deal. Thanks for any help 
on 
this.

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hi, for some reason, after i change the SoftwareMenu-1.0b1.run file to 77 
permissions
and run it, i just get a time out

ah, figured it out, you cant copy and paste the filename into the console :P

hmm, but now it says it needs to be in root, but wont let me type the user-name 
or
password, it just dsiconnects

see here

That's because you will need to enter the password frontrow to run an elevated 
command. Use a different SSH program. I recommend Putty for a good Windows 
console 
program. See more on the SSH Guide here http://code.google.com/p/atvusb-
creator/wiki/atvWindowsGuide

got it to work, thanks, i just didn't want to use a command line ssh program, 
but it
prevailed. My boxee and xbmc doesnt show up still even after doing the 
debug.run file

got boxee to work aswell, needed to go to downloads and update boxee first

Mm. You installed 3.2.1 of XBMCLauncher? There is some commands to wget and 
install 
from your aTV have a search.

Glad it worked for you. You beat me to it.

I have copied both .run files (softwareMenu and launcher-1.2.3) to the apple tv
through ssh but I can't install/execute them in the Termialn window, or through
cyberduck/coda. I get the errors in the Terminal window:

-bash: softwareMenu-1.0b1.run: command not found

or

when I type "exec" befor the file name:

-bash: exec: softwareMenu-1.0b1.run: not found

Can someone please help me install/execute them! All help is apriciated! 

I use a Mac

I figured it out! I missed that you have to put a "/" in front of the .run file 
in
the Terminal window.

For all others like me; I spent a lot of time with logging on to the ATV 
because I
thought I couldn’t type the password because it was not showing. Slow as I am 
it took
a while to realize that it was being typed in even dough it does not show in the
Terminal window.

Glad you got it working.

Showing the password, even when masked is a security risk, as it could reveal 
the 
length of the password.

hey guys i have a problem to eneble the menus  in apple tv 3.0 version there's 
anyone can tell me step by step 
how to fix this issue is so frustrate 

Hey,

All you've got to do is search issue #411. There are instructions for fixing 
Launcher and SoftwareMenu