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Kodi refuses to start - Exnor - 30th Jul, 2018 01:28 AM

Hi to all,

So today after a few months without updating i decided to run an manual apt-get update etc... and everything worked fine, no warning no nothing...
So machine reboots and i got the "starting Kodi" splash screen stuck for a while then it dropped to command line asking for user/pass (not the 1st time it happens so i was not worried), but then i tried "start xbmc" (like i do everytime this happens ) and the splash screen dropped back to CLI after 2 or 3 minutes... Rebooted, tested the file system (no problems found) and again the same thing (tried several times now).

Any ideas on how to solve this?
Pi 1 B , no changes have been made on the config (so OC@ 1Ghz)
Dmesg paste here

Terminal

uname -r
4.14.58+

Terminal

cat /etc/issue
XBian GNU/Linux 9 \n \l

Thank you to all.

RE: Kodi refuses to start - Nachteule - 30th Jul, 2018 03:37 AM

Please remove /var/log/upstart/xbmc.log - reboot - and then post

Kodi's logfile and /var/log/upstart/xbmc.log

RE: Kodi refuses to start - Exnor - 30th Jul, 2018 03:47 AM

(30th Jul, 2018 03:37 AM)Nachteule Wrote: Please remove /var/log/upstart/xbmc.log - reboot - and then post

Kodi's logfile and /var/log/upstart/xbmc.log

Also reboot or shutdown -r command now just shutdowns the unit.... Will post the file in a few minutes.

Thanks.

(30th Jul, 2018 03:37 AM)Nachteule Wrote: Please remove /var/log/upstart/xbmc.log - reboot - and then post

Kodi's logfile and /var/log/upstart/xbmc.log

File content:

Code:

1159 (process ID) old priority 0, new priority 3

1232 (process ID) old priority 0, new priority 3

start: Job failed to start

xbmc stop/post-start, process 1208

    post-start process 1209

RE: Kodi refuses to start - Nachteule - 30th Jul, 2018 04:01 AM

Still missing Kodi's log file

RE: Kodi refuses to start - Exnor - 30th Jul, 2018 04:37 AM

(30th Jul, 2018 04:01 AM)Nachteule Wrote: Still missing Kodi's log file

Sorry. Here it is and is quite small....

Code:

﻿18:47:14.252 153.643967 T:2985961984  NOTICE: special://profile/ is mapped to: special://masterprofile/

47:14.643 154.034897 T:2985961984  NOTICE: -----------------------------------------------------------------------

47:14.992 154.383438 T:2985961984  NOTICE: Starting Kodi (17.6 Git:2017-11-18-433b93a). Platform: Linux ARM 32-bit

47:14.992 154.383774 T:2985961984  NOTICE: Using Release Kodi x32 build (version for Raspberry Pi)

47:14.992 154.384003 T:2985961984  NOTICE: Kodi compiled Nov 19 2017 by GCC 6.3.0 for Linux ARM 32-bit version 4.9.34 (264482)

47:18.267 157.659195 T:2985961984  NOTICE: Running on XBian 1.0 (knockout), kernel: Linux ARM 32-bit version 4.14.58+

47:18.509 157.900269 T:2985961984  NOTICE: FFmpeg version/source: ffmpeg-3.1-kodi

47:18.509 157.900833 T:2985961984  NOTICE: Host CPU: ARMv6-compatible processor rev 7 (v6l), 1 core available

47:18.509 157.901047 T:2985961984  NOTICE: ARM Features: Neon disabled

47:18.646 158.037766 T:2985961984  NOTICE: special://xbmc/ is mapped to: /usr/local/share/kodi

47:18.646 158.038101 T:2985961984  NOTICE: special://xbmcbin/ is mapped to: /usr/local/lib/kodi

47:18.647 158.038300 T:2985961984  NOTICE: special://xbmcbinaddons/ is mapped to: /usr/local/lib/kodi/addons

47:18.647 158.038498 T:2985961984  NOTICE: special://masterprofile/ is mapped to: /home/xbian/.kodi/userdata

47:18.647 158.038696 T:2985961984  NOTICE: special://envhome/ is mapped to: /home/xbian

47:18.647 158.038879 T:2985961984  NOTICE: special://home/ is mapped to: /home/xbian/.kodi

47:18.647 158.039078 T:2985961984  NOTICE: special://temp/ is mapped to: /home/xbian/.kodi/temp

47:18.648 158.039276 T:2985961984  NOTICE: special://logpath/ is mapped to: /home/xbian/.kodi/temp

47:18.954 158.345810 T:2985961984  NOTICE: The executable running is: /usr/local/lib/kodi/kodi.bin

47:24.004 163.396194 T:2985961984  NOTICE: Local hostname: xbianQuarto

47:26.442 165.833847 T:2985961984  NOTICE: Log File is located: /home/xbian/.kodi/temp//kodi.log

47:27.530 166.921967 T:2985961984  NOTICE: -----------------------------------------------------------------------

47:51.048 190.439819 T:2985961984  NOTICE: load settings...

RE: Kodi refuses to start - Nachteule - 30th Jul, 2018 04:50 AM

Yes, indeed. Never seen such a small log file. And no error there, very strange.

Maybe enabling DEBUG messages brings some light into the dark

Please add

Code:

DEBUG="--debug"

to file /etc/default/xbmc, start Kodi again and look into logfile if some more messages come after load settings...

And, this

Code:

493.122392] kworker/u2:1: page allocation stalls for 12680ms, order:0, mode:0x1400840(GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOFAIL), nodemask=(null)

[ 493.122451] CPU: 0 PID: 76 Comm: kworker/u2:1 Tainted: G C 4.14.58+ #1

[ 493.122458] Hardware name: BCM2835

[ 493.122486] Workqueue: btrfs-endio-write btrfs_endio_write_helper

[ 493.122538] [<c0016920>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c00141a0>] (show_stack+0x20/0x24)

[ 493.122569] [<c00141a0>] (show_stack) from [<c07de694>] (dump_stack+0x20/0x28)

[ 493.122599] [<c07de694>] (dump_stack) from [<c0118b2c>] (warn_alloc+0xb8/0x17c)

does not look nice in dmesg, please keep an eye on dmesg if that appears always after boot

I was updating and rebooting my Pi1 one hour ago, and that does not appear here

RE: Kodi refuses to start - Exnor - 30th Jul, 2018 05:48 AM

(30th Jul, 2018 04:50 AM)Nachteule Wrote: Yes, indeed. Never seen such a small log file. And no error there, very strange.

Maybe enabling DEBUG messages brings some light into the dark

Please add

Code:

DEBUG="--debug"

to file /etc/default/xbmc, start Kodi again and look into logfile if some more messages come after load settings...

And, this
.......
does not look nice in dmesg, please keep an eye on dmesg if that appears always after boot

I was updating and rebooting my Pi1 one hour ago, and that does not appear here

Ok, done that, also ran Badblocks with the following output (i have no idea if it helps but...)

Code:

badblocks  -v -s /dev/mmcblk0p2

Checking blocks 0 to 7440383

Checking for bad blocks (read-only test): done

Pass completed, 0 bad blocks found. (0/0/0 errors)

Reboot now command now just "shutdowns" the pi (the SDCARD LED is not blinking so i assume is off... but it can be crashed...) (also btw yesterday before i ran the update Kodi and everything else were running fine :/ )

So new Dmesg file Here

New xbmc.log:

Code:

1159 (process ID) old priority 0, new priority 3

1232 (process ID) old priority 0, new priority 3

start: Job failed to start

xbmc stop/post-start, process 1208

    post-start process 1209

1160 (process ID) old priority 0, new priority 3

1236 (process ID) old priority 0, new priority 3

start: Job failed to start

xbmc stop/post-start, process 1209

    post-start process 1210

New Kodi.log Here

All other OS functions appear to be working... I do not have anything else installed on this Pi besides vanilla Xbian and the updates.

RE: Kodi refuses to start - Nachteule - 30th Jul, 2018 06:01 AM

Hmmm, your system seems incredible slow

20:34:19.453 161.818741 T:2985646592 NOTICE: load settings...

Code:

161.818741 is the uptime, mine system uptime at the same place is 87.689980 seconds

So, the question is, why is your system sooooo sloooooooowww Huh

RE: Kodi refuses to start - Exnor - 30th Jul, 2018 06:03 AM

(30th Jul, 2018 06:01 AM)Nachteule Wrote: Hmmm, your system seems incredible slow

20:34:19.453 161.818741 T:2985646592 NOTICE: load settings...

161.818741 is the uptime, mine system uptime at the same place is 87.689980 seconds

So, the question is, why is your system sooooo sloooooooowww

I have no idea.... did not change anything besides running apt-get update and upgrade... and then puff Kodi was not starting and still does not start Sad

RE: Kodi refuses to start - Nachteule - 30th Jul, 2018 06:12 AM

It seems that Kodi starts so slow, that startup watchdog (2mins) is killing Kodi before Kodi can tell system that I'm up

Can you try revert kernel from 4.14 to 4.9 (I suppose you ran .4.9 before) to see if that makes a difference

And/or, can you comment out dtoverlay=gpio-ir... in /boot/config.txt if you do not need lirc

RE: Kodi refuses to start - Exnor - 30th Jul, 2018 06:16 AM

(30th Jul, 2018 06:12 AM)Nachteule Wrote: It seems that Kodi starts so slow, that startup watchdog (2mins) is killing Kodi before Kodi can tell system that I'm up

Can you try revert kernel from 4.14 to 4.9 (I suppose you ran .4.9 before) to see if that makes a difference

And/or, can you comment out dtoverlay=gpio-ir... in /boot/config.txt if you do not need lirc

Can you help me reverting? I have no idea how to do that :/

Also thanks for the Lirc tip. I don't use any IR hardware.

(30th Jul, 2018 06:12 AM)Nachteule Wrote: It seems that Kodi starts so slow, that startup watchdog (2mins) is killing Kodi before Kodi can tell system that I'm up

Can you try revert kernel from 4.14 to 4.9 (I suppose you ran .4.9 before) to see if that makes a difference

And/or, can you comment out dtoverlay=gpio-ir... in /boot/config.txt if you do not need lirc

Also just found out that i have now 2 boot folders (???)... one /boot and the other /boot.new created today... is this expected?

RE: Kodi refuses to start - Nachteule - 30th Jul, 2018 06:20 AM

Code:

sudo apt-cache policy xbian-package-kernel

gives you a list of available kernel packages

Code:

sudo apt-get install xbian-package-kernel="version you want"

installs desired kernel version

RE: Kodi refuses to start - Exnor - 30th Jul, 2018 06:25 AM

(30th Jul, 2018 06:20 AM)Nachteule Wrote:

Code:

sudo apt-cache policy xbian-package-kernel

gives you a list of available kernel packages

Code:

sudo apt-get install xbian-package-kernel="version you want"

installs desired kernel version

Thanks you Smile

About the /boot.new folder... is that expected? This folder contains only:

RE: Kodi refuses to start - Nachteule - 30th Jul, 2018 06:27 AM

(30th Jul, 2018 06:16 AM)Exnor Wrote: Also just found out that i have now 2 boot folders (???)... one /boot and the other /boot.new created today... is this expected?

That is an indication for firmware package installation (xbian-package-firmware) has been failed or has been interrupted

Is your boot partition full?

RE: Kodi refuses to start - Exnor - 30th Jul, 2018 06:30 AM

(30th Jul, 2018 06:27 AM)Nachteule Wrote:
(30th Jul, 2018 06:16 AM)Exnor Wrote: Also just found out that i have now 2 boot folders (???)... one /boot and the other /boot.new created today... is this expected?

NO

That is an indication for kernel package installation has been failed or has been interrupted

oh that's nice.... and i did no get any warning during the update :/ Now what do i do? :/