Kodi not starting nightly-20201221-84dd16d x86_64

DDuck007 · December 22, 2020 at 10:00 AM

Hello,

I updated my HP Thinclient to LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-9.80-nightly-20201221-84dd16d.tar and Kodi does not start an reports X11-error on black screen.

The Kodi.log and the crashlog files are attached.

Do you know why it can´t start X11-server?

(reverted back to 20201211 and is working ...)

Thank you in advance!

DDuck007

**mglae** · December 22, 2020 at 12:57 PM

Crash log is from version 20201211 and does not help.

Access 20201221 via ssh, use pastekodi and post the URL to collect more information.

**Klojum** · December 22, 2020 at 2:04 PM Official Post

Quote from DDuck007

Do you know why it can´t start X11-server?

ERROR <general>: X11 Error: No Display found

What exact graphics card is in that Thin Client? Those things are not known for their spectacular video graphics.

DDuck007 · December 22, 2020 at 3:12 PM

Ah sorry, took the wrong file (... did not notice that there is also a crash in 20201211).

Here is the link from pastekodi: http://ix.io/2J8Y

Graphics card is a Radeon HD - following info copied from "technical-attributes": AMD GX-212JC 1,2 GHz Dual-Core SOC APU mit AMD Radeon HD Grafikkarte

**Klojum** · December 22, 2020 at 3:42 PM Official Post

2020-12-22 16:07:14.807 T:1307 ERROR <general>: X11 Error: No Display found
2020-12-22 16:07:14.807 T:1307 FATAL <general>: CApplication::CreateGUI - unable to init windowing system

Radeon HD is a couple of generations old already. And AMD support was kind of a lottery in those days: then it worked, then it didn't work...

I think the graphics card in those thin client boxes cannot be replaced with something more recent, but they will now make for an excellent door stop. I suggest you get yourself a simple Raspberry Pi, or a more recent board like a J5005 or J5040, whatever is your preference. Those have much more uptodate graphics engines, and are more than capable for Kodi usage.

DDuck007 · December 22, 2020 at 4:22 PM

ok that would be the easiest way, but to be honest to throw away a system which is more powerful than a RaspberryPI is not the solution

**Klojum** · December 22, 2020 at 7:45 PM Official Post

"More powerful" is one way of looking at it. For HTPC purposes however, your thin client is currently a dead duck floating in the water.

**blueribb** · December 22, 2020 at 8:09 PM

Stay with the version of LE that works or try another Linux distro

DDuck007 · December 22, 2020 at 8:23 PM

Ok let‘s stop discussion - I thought it would be helpful for Developers to get feedback - but those comments do not help at all.

-> just a remark: Not everyone has enough money to buy a new PC if there is a problem, so I really liked the small Libreelec Linux to support not only „actual“ PCs ...

For x86_64 there is only the most actual version available for download - so not much possibility for testing ...

**Da Flex** · December 22, 2020 at 8:35 PM Official Post

Better forget LE on that system. Install a regular Linux and autostart Kodi on it.

**chewitt** · December 23, 2020 at 6:59 AM Official Post

To herd the conversation in a more useful direction, this smells like the same problem Black Screen after Updating - LightDM/Xorg dosnt start / Pacman & Package Upgrade Issues / Arch Linux Forums and this patch may be the fix upgpkg: mesa 20.3.0-3: radeonsi: fix regression on gpus using the rad… · archlinux/svntogit-packages@2a3a08a · GitHub

peram1 · December 23, 2020 at 7:47 AM

for sitiuations like these would be really good having an archive of nightlys ... and not everybody has to keep his "last known good by himself"

... and moreover far more constructive, friendly and helpful than: "get yourself a PI", "install regular linux" ...

what's so difficult in having an archive of nightlys ?

ghtester · December 23, 2020 at 9:09 AM

Quote from peram1

for sitiuations like these would be really good having an archive of nightlys ... and not everybody has to keep his "last known good by himself"
... and moreover far more constructive, friendly and helpful than: "get yourself a PI", "install regular linux" ...
what's so difficult in having an archive of nightlys ?

Do you even understand what "nightly builds" are?

From my point of view, we should be grateful to developers for publishing them at all.
What prevents you from setting up this archive if you think it is needed? In my opinion, however, it would be a waste of space that someone has to pay, because hosting is not free.
Everyone can (and should) keep the previous functional "nightly" version + configuration backup and as you can see in the very first post, it happened here as well.

**mglae** · December 23, 2020 at 9:25 AM

For these Southern and Sea Island GPUs you can switch to the amdgpu kernel driver that is not affected by the bug.

Make /flash writable: mount -o remount,rw /flash.

Edit syslinux configuration: nano /flash/syslinux.cfg and add radeon.si_support=0 amdgpu.si_support=1 to the APPEND line.

DDuck007 · December 23, 2020 at 12:18 PM

Thank you chewitt, mglae and all others for bringing back the discussion to a technical point.

That´s the reason why I use LibreElec since years (and most items can be solved by reading in forum and checking issues in github).

I just tried adding the two lines to the syslinux.cfg but it did not solve it - when Kodi is started I get the same error:

Code

2020-12-23 13:11:37.825 T:1417     INFO <general>: CAESinkALSA::Initialize - Attempting to open device "hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=0"
2020-12-23 13:11:37.833 T:1417     INFO <general>: CAESinkALSA::Initialize - Opened device "hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=0,AES0=0x04,AES1=0x82,AES2=0x00,AES3=0x00"
2020-12-23 13:11:37.834 T:1417     INFO <general>: CAESinkALSA::InitializeHW - Your hardware does not support AE_FMT_FLOAT, trying other formats
2020-12-23 13:11:37.834 T:1417     INFO <general>: CAESinkALSA::InitializeHW - Using data format AE_FMT_S32NE
2020-12-23 13:11:37.850 T:1411     INFO <general>: CKeyboardLayoutManager: loading keyboard layouts from special://xbmc/system/keyboardlayouts...
2020-12-23 13:11:37.877 T:1411    ERROR <general>: X11 Error: No Display found

I think I go back to 20201211 (that´s the last working version I saved to my HDD) and check the github-pull-requests to see when the mesa-update is appied!

**mglae** · December 23, 2020 at 3:43 PM

That surprise me. I've tested 20201221 from USB stick on my Kaveri system, reproduced the issue and solved it by choosing amdgpu.

Please post complete pastekodi log again

**chewitt** · December 23, 2020 at 4:54 PM Official Post

DDuck007 LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-9.80.8.img.gz <= see if this image works, it's current LE master with mesa bumped to v20.3.1 which includes the fix that I flagged earlier.

DDuck007 · December 23, 2020 at 6:06 PM

chewitt: Thank you it works!

mglae: sorry, I did a complete pastekodi, but I missed the link - I double-checked after reboot and the two command were present in /flash/syslinux.cfg.