[PROBLEM] Upgraded today, now Kodi won't start!

[Skywatch]

I upgraded a pi2 today and all was well. So I decided to do a pi 1 as well, all is anything but well.

After the upgrade I got no web interface from the pi. I ssh in and see that kodi is not running.

I try

Code:

sudo service kodi start

and it is not recognised. Then I try

Code:

xbian@lounge ~ $ sudo service xbmc start
start: Job failed to start
xbian@lounge ~ $

The last 2 lines in the log file are......

Code:

15:29:52  64.309715 T:3020144640   ERROR: failed to load requested skin 'skin.confluenceforxbian'
15:29:52  64.321068 T:3020144640 WARNING: CSkinInfo: failed to load skin settings

So what is going on here please???

[Exnor]

Can't you edit the .xml file and change the skin to see if that is the problem?

[Nachteule]

Or better, before starting xbmc move /home/xbian/.kodi to a save place

[Nachteule]

I'm not sure but IMO this issue

Quote:15:29:52 64.309715 T:3020144640 ERROR: failed to load requested skin 'skin.confluenceforxbian'

has been fixed a long time ago, but probably this wrong config setting is still present in older installations

[Skywatch]

I can only tell you that it was working well this morning. I applied 5 or 6 upgrades offered today and now I have no kodi running and it won't start manually. The log file has the final entries I posted.

I will roll back if I can and see if it will work again.

[Nachteule]

It's impossible to say how this happens.

How old is your installation?

This special skin was used for RPi1 until January 6, 2015. I never used this skin on my RPi1's and my installations are from October 2013 (probably because I copied the .xbmc folder from another non XBian Linux system ...)

[Skywatch]

This install goes all the way back to Xbian 1 beta 3.

I rolled the install back and all is working again, so I checked the list of available upgrades....

The offending package is ..... xbian-package-xbmc [ 15.2-1449270576 (16.0-1456207666) ]

These other offered upgrades install and all work without issue....
cec-utils
libcec
libcec3
libcec-dev
python-libcec

But why break the installation now? What has changed? How do I upgrade xbian-package-xbmc without this issue?

S.

[Nachteule]

I only can guess.

Get rid of your obsolete skin confluenceforxbian, use the standard confluence skin, make sure that there is no further entry of skin.confluenceforxbian in /home/xbian/.kodi/userdata/guisettings.xml (there should be skin.confluence instead) and then please try again.

[Skywatch]

Hmm.. This is interesting.

I just checked the pi2 which worked OK after the upgrade and the 'confulenceforxbain' entries are all still present in the xml file!

I have changed the pi1 to see if it helps and am at the same time upgrading all packages released today (except xbian-update, which for some bizzare reason kills I2S sound output!).

So I tried it and it didn't work. Still no kodi proc running even after several reboots

As for a manual start, I now get this instead.....

Code:

xbian@lounge ~ $ sudo service xbmc start
[sudo] password for xbian:
xbmc stop/post-start, (post-start) process 1927

S.

[Nachteule]

Hmmm, very strange

Did you found the same error messages in kodi.log?

[Nachteule]

Code:

(except xbian-update, which for some bizzare reason kills I2S sound output!).

Could you show me your /boot/config.txt or are you coderpop on github? Then forget about it

[Skywatch]

@Nachteule

I changed every entry in the xml file to remove 'forxbian' in the skin entries (there's quite a few of them!) using sudo nano /blah/blah then saved with ctrl-o and exited with ctrl-x...and then rebooted.

When Kodi was not showing in 'top' I had a look at the xml file and the 'forxbian' was back! - What black magic is this?

The error this time was.....(more entries included for info)...

Code:

16:44:27  60.434811 T:3020722176 WARNING: CalcSAR: Screen SAR - not usable info
16:44:27  60.435486 T:3020722176  NOTICE: Found resolution 720x480 (720x480) @ 60.00i - Full Screen
16:44:27  60.436214 T:3020722176  NOTICE: Checking resolution 16
16:44:27  60.448528 T:3020722176  NOTICE: GL_VENDOR = Broadcom
16:44:27  60.448883 T:3020722176  NOTICE: GL_RENDERER = VideoCore IV HW
16:44:27  60.449127 T:3020722176  NOTICE: GL_VERSION = OpenGL ES 2.0
16:44:27  60.449371 T:3020722176  NOTICE: GL_SHADING_LANGUAGE_VERSION = OpenGL ES GLSL ES 1.00
16:44:27  60.449673 T:3020722176  NOTICE: GL_EXTENSIONS = GL_OES_compressed_ETC1_RGB8_texture GL_OES_compressed_paletted_texture GL_OES_texture_npot GL_OES_depth24 GL_OES_vertex_half_float GL_OES_EGL_image GL_OES_EGL_image_external GL_EXT_discard_framebuffer GL_OES_rgb8_rgba8 GL_OES_depth32 GL_OES_mapbuffer GL_EXT_texture_format_BGRA8888 GL_APPLE_rgb_422 GL_EXT_debug_marker
16:44:29  62.341717 T:3020722176  NOTICE: Running database version Addons20
16:44:29  62.360905 T:3020722176  NOTICE: Running database version ViewModes6
16:44:29  62.378979 T:3020722176  NOTICE: Running database version Textures13
16:44:29  62.425255 T:3020722176  NOTICE: Running database version MyMusic56
16:44:30  62.504513 T:3020722176  NOTICE: Running database version MyVideos99
16:44:30  62.522888 T:3020722176  NOTICE: Running database version TV29
16:44:30  62.540245 T:3020722176  NOTICE: Running database version Epg11
16:44:30  62.553623 T:3020722176  NOTICE: start dvd mediatype detection
16:44:30  62.877777 T:3020722176 WARNING: CSkinInfo: failed to load skin settings

I have tried this twice now and always the same happens. The pi is headless so I do everything via ssh.

As for your second message, I will forget about it then

S.

[Nachteule]

... a lot of evil ghosts are working on your RPi's

[Skywatch]

....so who put them there? ;-)

[Nachteule]

I have really NO idea