[1.0RC3] XBMC keeps restarting

[badmonkey]

Many thanks for this information. I had to roll back to a working snapshot (RC2) and haven't had a chance to look at this again until now. I installed all the updates since RC2 to make sure I was on the latest release and the XBMC restarts came back as before. I changed the value to 300 as you suggested but this didn't fix my issue. In frustration I decided to try 900 just to be sure that my problem was completely different, and ... no restarts ... everything solid and running fine. I'm sure that the value doesn't need to be that large, but I required a number bigger than 300.

I'm betting that the XBMC restarts which a number of people are affected by is exactly this issue - I use samba and that's working fine so the on-screen messages appear to be a red herring as previously suggested.

(19th Oct, 2014 12:49 AM)junwin Wrote:  So I experienced the same problem if you continue to experience this problem edit: /etc/init/xbmc-failed-start.conf

This script typically waits 100 seconds running a status check on xbmc, if the status is still pending or not started it forcefully kills xbmc.

To fix simply adjust the line:
exec sleep 100

replace with

exec sleep 300

This will increase the wait time to 300 seconds.

The core issue here is when you start installing plugins. They slow the boot up time of xbmc.