LibreELEC boots in Safe Mode (kodi.bin crashes with SIGSEGV)

schlucke · September 8, 2019 at 4:27 PM

Hi there,

I need a little help. Since today my LibreELEC 9.0.2 boots into safe mode every time and I don't know why. LibreELEC is running for years on my self build HTPC until today. As you might expect I didn't change anything, but I'm not alone in my house

Any help would be welcome!

Carsh Log: http://ix.io/1ub8

**Da Flex** · September 9, 2019 at 1:01 AM Official Post

Those errors are typical for broken storage devices. Check your LE installation device (bad blocks etc.).

**Klojum** · September 9, 2019 at 4:06 PM Official Post

Quote from Da Flex

Those errors are typical for broken storage devices.

So... How are incorrect internal memory pointers & segmentation faults exactly causing broken (external) storage devices? It sounds like a big leap to me.

schlucke · September 9, 2019 at 6:52 PM

Sounds strange to me also, but I will try tomorrow when back home.

The same kodi.bin causing the segmentation fault runs fine in Kodi Safe Mode .....!?

**Da Flex** · September 9, 2019 at 7:00 PM Official Post

Quote from Klojum

So... How are incorrect internal memory pointers & segmentation faults exactly causing broken (external) storage devices? It sounds like a big leap to me.

schlucke and me are referencing to this part of the log file:

Code

Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
#0  0x0000000000b0d8f0 in CGLTexture::DestroyTextureObject() ()

My interpretation is that a graphical element (CGL texture) of LE can't be loaded. Because it was loaded many times before, I came to the conclusion above.

**Klojum** · September 9, 2019 at 10:55 PM Official Post

I still can't see a graphics problem resulting into bad blocks on a storage problem. But anything is possible, I guess.

**Da Flex** · September 10, 2019 at 12:07 AM Official Post

Quote from Klojum

I still can't see a graphics problem resulting into bad blocks on a storage problem. But anything is possible, I guess.

When a texture has partially been stored in bad blocks, then the texture can't be loaded by Kodi.

**HiassofT** · September 10, 2019 at 12:34 AM

This has nothing to do with textures or GUI. If you look at the log you'll see that kodi is crashing because it couldn't load the german language file

Code

FATAL: SetLanguage: CLangInfo: failed to load resource.language.de_de language information

Search the forums, this has been reported multiple times (sorry, can't remember the workaround/solution right now).

so long,

Hias

schlucke · September 10, 2019 at 8:57 PM

Quote from HiassofT
This has nothing to do with textures or GUI. If you look at the log you'll see that kodi is crashing because it couldn't load the german language file
Code
FATAL: SetLanguage: CLangInfo: failed to load resource.language.de_de language information
Search the forums, this has been reported multiple times (sorry, can't remember the workaround/solution right now).

so long,

Hias

Thanks, that was the essential hint! Didn't find much on the forums, but what I found was enought to fix it ...

I changed locale.language in guisettings.xml to resource.language.en_gb, after that Kodi comes up without problems in English language
Then I navigated to Addons .. Look and feel -> Languages and noticed that German was disabled. I enabled it ...
And finally switched the regional settings back to German.

Evarything fine now, but didn't really understand why the german language was disabled in my case...

**Da Flex** · September 10, 2019 at 9:27 PM Official Post

Quote from schlucke

Evarything fine now, but didn't really understand why the german language was disabled in my case...

Checking the device for errors still can't hurt. If you haven't changed the settings, there must be a different cause for the error.

schlucke · September 11, 2019 at 7:42 PM

OK. And how should I do that without umounting .....?

fschk, dmesg, ...

**Da Flex** · September 11, 2019 at 11:32 PM Official Post

Use a bootable USB stick with an OS specialized for device checking. Your HTPC can probably boot from stick.

GParted LIve can check and repair partitions. Especially it can leave bad blocks out when reformatting a partition.

Be sure to make an LE backup before you try to repair anything.

ninjafuchs · October 5, 2019 at 7:52 PM

hi guys!

Sorry for hijacking this thread. But my rpi suddenly only boots into safe mode.

I uploaded the logs via the suggested options in that mode here: http://ix.io/1xhr

I really somebody can help me

ninja

**Da Flex** · October 7, 2019 at 1:36 PM Official Post

Quote from ninjafuchs

I uploaded the logs via the suggested options in that mode here: http://ix.io/1xhr

You are using LE 9.0.2 on RPi. This combo is known to run very stable.

Code

2019-10-05 20:35:11.438 T:1936855056   ERROR: CProfileManager: error loading special://masterprofile/profiles.xml, Line 0
                                            Failed to open file
2019-10-05 20:35:11.438 T:1936855056  NOTICE: special://profile/ is mapped to: special://masterprofile/
2019-10-05 20:35:11.438 T:1936855056   FATAL: unable to load profile

My bet is a broken microSD card. Follow my above advice to check or repair the card.

ninjafuchs · October 7, 2019 at 3:40 PM

thank you very much for your help and advice and will check it this week.

LibreELEC boots in Safe Mode (kodi.bin crashes with SIGSEGV)

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