Problem with 9.0 upgrade

ceejayemm · February 3, 2019 at 9:25 AM

I have been using LibreElec for a number of years on a Raspberry Pi 2/3 in a fairly simply way, very few addons which are all official as far as I am aware. I have been following the release of LE9.0 having applied all the Alpha/Beta/RC releases without any problem. I was therefore surprised when the installation of the 9.0 Release failed and dropped me into Safe Mode. Safe Mode gave me no option to reboot (perhaps I should have pulled the plug ?) and I ended up following the options to reconfigure a clean installation of LE. Is it now too late to recover my broken LE installation from before the upgrade attempt and how might I fix the errors which caused Kodi to crash ?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Chris

**Klojum** · February 3, 2019 at 11:01 AM Official Post

Can you still SSH into your RPi? If so, check the contents of the /storage/.kodi/userdata/profiles.xml file.

If it's empty, try writing a new one via the nano editor.

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<profiles>
    <lastloaded>0</lastloaded>
    <useloginscreen>false</useloginscreen>
    <autologin>-1</autologin>
    <nextIdProfile>1</nextIdProfile>
    <profile>
        <id>0</id>
        <name>Master user</name>
        <directory pathversion="1">special://masterprofile/</directory>
        <thumbnail pathversion="1"></thumbnail>
        <hasdatabases>true</hasdatabases>
        <canwritedatabases>true</canwritedatabases>
        <hassources>true</hassources>
        <canwritesources>true</canwritesources>
        <lockaddonmanager>false</lockaddonmanager>
        <locksettings>0</locksettings>
        <lockfiles>false</lockfiles>
        <lockmusic>false</lockmusic>
        <lockvideo>false</lockvideo>
        <lockpictures>false</lockpictures>
        <lockprograms>false</lockprograms>
        <lockgames>false</lockgames>
        <lockmode>0</lockmode>
        <lockcode></lockcode>
        <lastdate></lastdate>
    </profile>
</profiles>

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ceejayemm · February 3, 2019 at 11:16 AM

I can SSH to the Pi and the /storage/.kodi/userdata/profiles.xml file does exist (but might have been created by new install ?) I have attached that version (renames to profiles.txt for upload) for you to see. There is an empty file of this name now in /storage/.kodi.FAILED/userdata/ Do you want me to replace it with the version in your post above ?

Chris

**chewitt** · February 4, 2019 at 3:46 PM Official Post

Stop Kodi, rename the various .kodi folders out of the way and restart Kodi. Now stop/move/restart and move bits of config back until you either end up with a working system or find the thing that breaks it. It's the kind of issue that doesn't have an easy button.

trimal · September 17, 2019 at 11:05 PM

Quote from Klojum

Can you still SSH into your RPi? If so, check the contents of the /storage/.kodi/userdata/profiles.xml file.

If it's empty, try writing a new one via the nano editor.

Code

<profiles>
    <lastloaded>0</lastloaded>
    <useloginscreen>false</useloginscreen>
    <autologin>-1</autologin>
    <nextIdProfile>1</nextIdProfile>
    <profile>
        <id>0</id>
        <name>Master user</name>
        <directory pathversion="1">special://masterprofile/</directory>
        <thumbnail pathversion="1"></thumbnail>
        <hasdatabases>true</hasdatabases>
        <canwritedatabases>true</canwritedatabases>
        <hassources>true</hassources>
        <canwritesources>true</canwritesources>
        <lockaddonmanager>false</lockaddonmanager>
        <locksettings>0</locksettings>
        <lockfiles>false</lockfiles>
        <lockmusic>false</lockmusic>
        <lockvideo>false</lockvideo>
        <lockpictures>false</lockpictures>
        <lockprograms>false</lockprograms>
        <lockgames>false</lockgames>
        <lockmode>0</lockmode>
        <lockcode></lockcode>
        <lastdate></lastdate>
    </profile>
</profiles>

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Thank you very much for this solution. This is worked for me.

Just inserted config above to my empty config file

My error log was exactly like this:

Code

INFO: loading settings
ERROR: CProfileManager: error loading special://masterprofile/profiles.xml, Line 0                                            Failed to open file
NOTICE: special://profile/ is mapped to: special://masterprofile/
FATAL: unable to load profile

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