[1.0RC3] XBMC keeps restarting

[mk01]

(1st Jan, 2015 07:33 AM)palswim Wrote:  

(31st Dec, 2014 08:59 PM)mk01 Wrote:  Also because never before this happened at MASS scale - we neither users ever considered the looping itself for a BUG. the looping is alone a FEATURE - to auto restart XBMC in case of crash. but if XBMC doesn't start AT ALL (to HOME SCREEN) as part of BOOT and is killed on timeout - it is not logical to try loop it again and again. only today I named as BUG and fixed in xbian-package-xbmc-scripts v1.1.5.
(i have the feeling @palswim challenged that looping few msgs back as well -and clearly - reload AFTER xbmc running & crashing later is the feature we want to havel. useless restarting of XBMC which never make it to display on TV is an attack on user.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean here. Are you saying that you added the XBMC auto-restart as a feature, but I provided an argument as to why a user may not desire that behavior?

1) first of all, this bug in discussion is not related to new function. the way XBMC start / stop / autorestart is handled is there (with no actual workflow / script) since B1. that means almost 2Y. but there was need to some changes on XBMC scripting side due to KODI preparation and with that we introduced this problem.

2) regardless to 1) to answer your question - because this part was NEVER making troubles before, we(and also users) never realised, that the "autorestart" implementation HAS one logical processing issue. and that is that it is trying to start XBMC again and again in never-ending loop not considering XBMC's ability to RUN(to START) at all - as of course it is making no sense to try to start XBMC if it is damaged, missing or missing system libs and others fatal conditions.

but now that missing "exit-loop" condition was added.