ghost context menu, don't know what to look at to troubleshoot anymore...

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    Hi,

    Here is what happened :

    I had a Rpi2 + FLIRC + Logitech Remote with XBMC profile. I was using openelec. I moved to libreelec.

    THEN a while later i got a NUC.

    I backed up my library, and restored it on the NUC, on a clean libreelec install, and moved my FLIRC to it. (Disabled the IR in NUC bios)

    Everything was fine and dandy for a while.

    All of a sudden, i started getting a "ghost" context menu press. If the selected item has a context menu available, if i leave it there for a while (couple of seconds), the context menu appears all by itself. I'm scrolling down my list of file and all of a sudden i get the menu appear out of the blue.

    My troubleshooting steps (after each, i highlighted a video file that could have a context menu to popup) :

    • Took out the Flirc, the context menu still appears
    • Double checked that the IR is disabled in bios, it was off
    • removed the usb dongle for my wireless keyboard + mouse, context menu still appears
    • disabled all control options, via web interfaces, upnp, etc... still have a problem
    • disconnected it from LAN (wifi was disabled too), still going on...

    The only thing that fixed it : install clean. No backup restoration, rescanned all my libraries. No more problem!
    I've been adding my addons one by one, separately, to see if one enabled that "feature" but so far so good! And then, more than a week after touching my configs and installing my last few addons / skin.... that damn ghost context menu popup appeared again...

    I don't know what to do or check to fix this anymore, anybody knows what to do?

    Quote from Klojum


    "All of a sudden" is kinda strange to begin with. Why not start with giving us a debug-enabled kodi.log file? And a screenshot of that 'ghost menu' would be nice. I can't remember the LE team putting that one in.

    It's the context menu you get on certain items. I call it "ghost" because it appears without any keypress from myself, nor network input of any kind.

    I'll take a pic and look into the log file once i wake up properly :)
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    And of course, now that I try to replicate the issue to capture it on video and in the log... it doesn't point it's nose... I'll try to catch it as soon as I see it and i'll come post back once I get it.... Although i'd rather hope it stopped for good cause it's a pain.

    Edited once, last by stefer (July 20, 2016 at 12:55 PM).

    Alright, finally got to see it again and was able to keep it going enough to get debug logging :


    Here is a screenshot of the menu i was talking about :

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    Everytime the menu pops up, i see the line :
    DEBUG: ------ Window Init (DialogContextMenu.xml) ------
    I use the back key to go back. A reboot fixes it for a while but then it seems to come back by itself.