LibreELEC freezes while playing movie

elsmore · December 6, 2017 at 7:32 PM

Hi,

Recently I have been getting random freezes when playing movies - sometimes multiple times within the space of 20 minutes. When the system freezes I have to do a hard reboot. I didn't have a problem before, so I'm thinking it's related to a recent release (I have set to update automatically). Can anyone shed some light on this? I have attached the log and system specs.

Version:

LibreELEC (official): 8.2.1, kernel: Linux x86 64-bit version 4.11.12

System:

Jetway JBC311W

Tiny and Fanless Jetway JBC311 Barebones NUC Form Factor PC with Intel N2930 Bay Trail-M processor, 2x Intel 82583V Gigabit LAN, 2x HDMI, 3x USB 2.0, 1x USB 3.0.

I'm using streaming from a Synology NAS over WiFi (also tried powerline adapters with the same result).

Log:

18:50:35.425 T:140038075676352 NOTICE: special://profile/ is mapped to: special - Pastebin.com

I also have another Zotac mini PC that's working fine on the same network (same software version), so it seems to be specifically related to the Jetway box.

Bromandible · December 7, 2017 at 10:22 PM

Baytrail chipsets do have a bug that can cause them to completely lock up. I had the exact same issue. Have a look at my thread that fixed my problem

How to add intel_idle.max_cstate=1 to Libreelec

elsmore · December 8, 2017 at 10:09 PM

Thanks for the tip, I'll give it a go!

For those using Libreelec, the file to update is:

/flash/extlinux.conf

And /flash is read only, so you have to re-mount with:

mount -o remount,rw /flash

**milhouse** · December 9, 2017 at 6:08 AM

Quote from elsmore

For those using Libreelec, the file to update is:

/flash/extlinux.conf

It will depend how old your installation is - yours sounds like it might have originally been an OpenELEC installation so is using /flash/extlinux.conf.

Fresh installs of LibreELEC use a more up-to date version of syslinux which now uses /flash/syslinux.cfg (when booting in legacy BIOS mode) or /flash/EFI/BOOT/syslinux (when booting with UEFI).