LE11 from build 20220701 failing to start UI/Kodi

Hi,

since build 20220701 I can't start UI/Kodi with any newer build and it always ends up booting into safe mode after several failed attempts.

I have an onboard Intel graphics card and after searching this forum I assumed problems with the driver used, unfortunately none of the following entries in kodi.cfg helped:

echo 'LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME="i915"' >> /storage/.config/kodi.conf

or

echo 'LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME="i965"' >> /storage/.config/kodi.conf

I don't see any specific error in kodi.log.

Any idea what it could be?

Thanks in advance,

Martin

On the last working build, after typing lspci -v | less I see this:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

DeviceName: Onboard IGD

Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller

Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 28

Memory at f7800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]

Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]

I/O ports at f000 [size=64]

Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [virtual] [disabled] [size=128K]

Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-

Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2

Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features

Kernel driver in use: i915

Any help please? chewitt, or CvH?

Quote from chewitt

In the absense of a boot log to show what the system is doing I have no clue and CvH will be the same. Neither of us are mind readers.

@chewitt>

kodi.log, it can be viewed here: http://ix.io/46Bx

kodi_crash.log, it can be viewed here: http://ix.io/46By

journalctl > all_logs.txt, it can be viewed here: http://ix.io/46Bz

and kodi.log with debug logging enabled, it can be viewed here: http://ix.io/46BD

If I should supply any other log, please let me know which one and I will supply it.

Thanks in advance,

Martin

No, there's no /storage/.config/kodi.conf at all. After discovering that the entry probably had no effect on Kodi, I "cleaned up" after myself and deleted the whole file again.

Quote from JoeAverage

I do for kernel testing usually this in an terminal:

dmesg|grep -iEw 'bad|bug|conflict|corrupt|error|fail|failed|fault|fatal|invalid|Lock|NULL|segfault|stack|trace|warn'

Thank you for your advice. After entering the command you mentioned, I get the following response:

Kodi:~ # dmesg|grep -iEw 'bad|bug|conflict|corrupt|error|fail|failed|fault|fatal|invalid|Lock|NULL|segfault|stack|trace|warn'
[    0.025213] mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off
[    0.141308] PCI: Using host bridge windows from ACPI; if necessary, use "pci=nocrs" and report a bug
[    0.360741] AMD-Vi: AMD IOMMUv2 functionality not available on this system - This is not a bug.
[    0.623547] fail to initialize ptp_kvm
[    1.320556] systemd[1]: Journal Audit Socket was skipped because of a failed condition check (ConditionSecurity=audit).
[    1.321375] systemd[1]: Huge Pages File System was skipped because of a failed condition check (ConditionPathExists=/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages).
[    1.322829] systemd[1]: Mounting Kernel Trace File System...
[    1.337367] systemd[1]: Mounted Kernel Trace File System.
[    1.344014] systemd[1]: Persistent Log Storage was skipped because all trigger condition checks failed.
[    2.014242] USB-compliant keyboard: Invalid code 773 type 1

Looks good to me, don't you think? Or should I address some of the line I found?

Anyway, thanks a lot!

Martin

Quote from mglae

Currently your kodi is crashing in PVR Manager when starting PVR Simple Client.

Follow this post to remove the PVR addon and install the latest version. Please post new crash log if still failing.

It works!

1) I removed the PVR Simpe Client add-on

2) after removing the PVR Simple Client, Kodi loads without any problem

great, but.. as soon as I again downloaded and installed the latest version of PVR IPTV add-on from the official Kodi repo, than just after installing - probably in the moment, when Kodi tried to start PVR IPTV plug-in again, it immediately crash it (Kodi). From that moment, it is impossible to start Kodi again till I manually remove this PVR IPTV Client at all.

mglae> Do you wand to analyse my logs? Just let me know, otherwise, I don't care.

Maybe it would actually be best to report this directly to the creators of the PVR IPTV add-on, but unfortunately I have to admit that I actually have no idea how to do it "right" and make it useful in the end. But if someone points me in the right direction, I'll be happy to do it.

Anyway, once again and many many thanks mglae!

Martin

mglae >

Following your last advice, I simply removed the Simple IPTV PVR addon from my Kodi and that didn't solve the problem, but it did put it to rest. After a few weeks I saw the option to install the updated Sipmple IPTV, even in the latest version 20.6.0. I did the install, but unfortunately from that moment on LE is unable to boot and always ends up in Safe Mode.

Following the instructions, I therefore obtained the appropriate logs:

• http://ix.io/4bf6
• http://ix.io/4bf5

Can I please ask where the problem is?

I tried to go through the logs and discover the problem in them myself, but without success.

Can I ask for help?

Thank you very much in advance,

Martin