LE 11 Nightly - KODI does not start on RPi 4B after upgrade to 20211007

ghtester · October 11, 2021 at 5:30 PM

I have upgraded LE 11 Nightly from 20211005 to 20211007 but Kodi could not start afterwards. Then I tried to reinstall (by putting the image file to .update folder & reboot) with LE 11 Nightly 20211006 with the same result. Even reinstalling with (previously working) 20211005 did not fix the issue. Yestarday I tried to reinstall with 20211010, Kodi also does not start. After several attempts to start Kodi the LE reboots in Safe mode.

Does anybody know how could I easily make it working again please (hopefully I won't need to revert to a bit older LE release & restore configuration from backup)?

http://ix.io/3Bp4

http://ix.io/3BpJ

**chewitt** · October 11, 2021 at 6:32 PM

"Feedback is welcome via the forum, but please do not expect support"

Thanks for the feedback. No further action required.

ghtester · October 11, 2021 at 7:23 PM

Understood... You are welcome.

Edit - just FYI - 20211012: http://ix.io/3BA2

**mglae** · October 13, 2021 at 10:11 AM

If still not expecting support please do

Code

touch /storage/.config/debug.enhanced

and post new logs

ghtester · October 13, 2021 at 10:49 PM

Thanks a lot, that's exactly what I was looking for - how to enable debug logs from console.

The fresh logs after update to most recent LE 11 Nightly 20211013:

http://ix.io/3BFy

http://ix.io/3BFB

**mglae** · October 14, 2021 at 9:21 AM

Quote from ghtester

how to enable debug logs from console.

This is is how to enable verbose crash logs.

To enable kodi debug logging (without OSD) use

XML: /storage/.kodi/userdata/advancedsettings.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<advancedsettings>
  <loglevel>1</loglevel>
</advancedsettings>

ghtester · October 15, 2021 at 9:43 PM

The same issue with LE 11 Nightly 20211014 and 20211015.

Found a thread discussing the error hdmi-audio-codec hdmi-audio-codec.1.auto: ASoC: error at snd_soc_dai_startup on i2s-hifi: -19

that I am experiencing as well: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/4575

Tried to edit config.txt and cmdline.txt as outlined there but without any positive effect.

cat cmdline.txt

boot=LABEL=System disk=LABEL=Storage quiet video=HDMI-A-1:D

http://ix.io/3BRm

**mglae** · October 16, 2021 at 9:45 AM

Please create a debug crash log with WS-Discovery component logging by creating:

Code: /storage/.kodi/userdata/advancedsettings.xml

<advancedsettings version="1.0">

<loglevel hide="false">1</loglevel> 
<debug>
  <extralogging>true</extralogging>
  <setextraloglevel>8388608</setextraloglevel>
</debug>

</advancedsettings>

ghtester · October 16, 2021 at 11:05 AM

Thanks for an advice, created the file and this is the fresh crashlog:

http://ix.io/3BTW

**mglae** · October 16, 2021 at 4:00 PM

What if you disable ws-discovery by changing advancedsettings.xml to

Code

<advancedsettings version="1.0">

<loglevel hide="false">1</loglevel> 
<debug>
  <extralogging>true</extralogging>
  <setextraloglevel>8388608</setextraloglevel>
</debug>

<setting id="services.wsdiscovery">false</setting>
</advancedsettings>

ghtester · October 16, 2021 at 4:32 PM

Thanks a lot, you made it!!! My LE 11 Nightly is working again.

After updating advancedsettings.xml in accordance with your advice & reboot, Kodi started and displayed announcment that there's no PVR installed. I have confirmed it, then Kodi's GUI appeared and some add-ons were updated automatically. Then Live TV started succesfully and everything seems to be working fine again.

Thanks a lot for your help, mglae !

**mglae** · October 16, 2021 at 5:00 PM

The advice did come from @fuzzard on github.

But why are you the only one seeing the crash? Can you try a fresh installation on a spare card?

ghtester · October 16, 2021 at 5:12 PM

OK, thank you both!

Currently I am going to upgrade LE 11 Nightly 20211005 on another boot media (USB stick) to 20211015 to test if I fell to the same issue or not. I'll put a result here. I could also try a fresh installation later but I believe it will work at first attempt.

I think my configuration is a bit specific - I am using Live TV / PVR with Astrometa DVB-T2 stick, also the i2c LCD display so some add-ons are also more or less a bit specific. Maybe that's why? Some add-on incompatible with fresh Kodi which couldn't be upgraded automatically without the advancedsettings.xml?

Edit - upgrade another LE 11 from 20211005 to 20211015 stopped with new Kodi picture on screen after the bottom line, informing about add-ons migration, disappeared. Kodi log ends with Waiting message (about 25 minutes ago):

http://ix.io/3BVG

I'll try to reboot to see what happens afterwards.

Edit 2 - after reboot Kodi started without issue and Live TV is working.

Perhaps the original issue could be due the fact when LE 11 Nightly 20211007 was released, add-ons were not compiled yet so the add-on migration did not finish properly and it prevented Kodi from further starts?

**mglae** · October 26, 2021 at 5:19 PM

The fix is now in nighties. For testing change the advancedsettings line to

Code

<setting id="services.wsdiscovery">true</setting>

and type systemctl restart kodi.

On success the line can be removed.

ghtester · October 26, 2021 at 10:04 PM

Thanks a lot for an update / fix.

I have removed the advancedsettings file as soon as I was able to start Kodi again (at Oct, 16) and the issue did not happen again. So disabling wsdiscovery just one time was enough to fix the Kodi boot issue.

In the meantime, I have installed several LE 11 Nightly updates without any (similar) issue (currently running 20211025).

Thanks again for your help.

**mglae** · October 26, 2021 at 10:56 PM

Likely WS-Discovery is disabled in guisettings. Check "Settings->Services->SMB Client->Enable WS-Discovery Service"

LE 11 Nightly - KODI does not start on RPi 4B after upgrade to 20211007

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