LE 11.01 Suddenly started booting to safe mode

sunlollyking · April 4, 2023 at 7:38 AM

Hey - here's my log https://paste.kodi.tv/misevoxone.kodi

And the crashlog from the last time it was working https://paste.kodi.tv/ohazonizaf.kodi

I've been running some of the nightly builds and then suddenly i turn on my Intel NUC and find that its booted into safe mode, and there's no way i can get it back to the main install. I haven't changed anything so it feels quite strange as it's been working brilliantly. I downgraded back to 11.01 and i'm still getting the same error.

If anyone can help that'd be much appreciated.

sunlollyking · April 4, 2023 at 3:07 PM

Going to reraise this in general support

**chewitt** · April 4, 2023 at 3:18 PM

Once you're in safe mode you will remain in safe mode unless you manually revert back to the previous Kodi setup. That can be done by stopping Kodi and renaming folders to restore the previous Kodi instance to the right location. That will also restore the crashing though, but in 99/100 cases the reason for repeated crashes is a bad add-on, so watching the logs and seeing which add-on causes the crash; means you can then delete the add-on folder from /storage/.kodi/addons (and the packages folder) to get things running again. The fix of the problem then depends on what the problem was, but some kind of add-on update (new version, etc.) is usually the way forwards.

**chewitt** · April 4, 2023 at 3:20 PM

NB: I've deleted the other thread you started and moved this one.

sunlollyking · April 4, 2023 at 3:21 PM

Awesome i'll give it a shot!

sunlollyking · April 4, 2023 at 3:52 PM

Just removed the .kodi folder - renamed the .kodi_FAILED folder back to .kodi and rebooted and it immediately goes into safe mode without going through the boot loop at all.
When i look into .kodi_FAILED there's no crashlogs that have been created and the .kodi log's last update was from yesterday.
At a bit of a loss as to what to do next.

**mglae** · April 4, 2023 at 4:29 PM

First please read https://wiki.libreelec.tv/configuration/safe-mode (especially https://wiki.libreelec.tv/configuration/…gging-or-fixing)

From crashlog:

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Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
#0  0x0000000000d2732b in CVideoDatabase::GetUseAllExternalAudioForVideo(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&) ()
[Current thread is 1 (Thread 0x7fcf567dc6c0 (LWP 1378))]


2023-04-03 21:18:53.158 T:1312    error <general>: SQL: [MyVideos121.db] SQLite error SQLITE_NOTADB (file is not a database)
                                                   Query: PRAGMA cache_size=4096
                                                    (file is not a database)
2023-04-03 21:18:53.158 T:1312    error <general>: Connect failed with 'SQL: [MyVideos121.db] SQLite error SQLITE_NOTADB (file is not a database)
                                                   Query: PRAGMA cache_size=4096
                                                    (file is not a database)'
2023-04-03 21:18:53.161 T:1312     info <general>: Old database found - updating from version 120 to 121
2023-04-03 21:18:53.161 T:1312    error <general>: SQL: Can't copy database. (26)
2023-04-03 21:18:53.161 T:1312    error <general>: Unable to copy old database MyVideos120 to new version MyVideos121

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Start with:

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rm /storage/.kodi_FAILED/userdata/Database/MyVideos121.db

If Safe Mode remains do:

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rm /storage/.kodi_FAILED/userdata/Database/MyVideos*

sunlollyking · April 4, 2023 at 4:37 PM

Cool, i'll try this. I was hesitant to clear out any of the DB files just because of recovery?
It may boot but i'm guessing my corrupted DB means i'll have to rescrape in some files ?

Ok i tried both of the above one after each other and it still seems to be booting into safe mode.

Are my logs highlighting anything else that could be of note? It does seem that my LE boots into safe mode incredibly quickly so not sure if it's perhaps skipping checks ?
I deleted all of the MyVideos* from the directory listed and then deleted .kodi and renamed my .kodi_FAILED and then rebooted.

Any help is much appreciated

**mglae** · April 4, 2023 at 5:24 PM

The Wiki may be wrong. Try renaming kodi.FAILED yourself.

sunlollyking · April 4, 2023 at 5:39 PM

Sorry i should have clarified - I did rename it myself.

sunlollyking · April 4, 2023 at 10:03 PM

Do I have any options at all or do I have to just fully reinstall?

I've removed the files above and restarted but it doesn't feel like libreelec is trying to get out of safe mode. Happy to provide anything else if it would help

**mglae** · April 4, 2023 at 11:08 PM

You must not rename .kodi_FAILED yourself. The system will boot directly into safe mode again.

Just reboot and safe mode will be disabled.

**HiassofT** · April 5, 2023 at 12:06 AM

Is your storage partition full? That would explain why copying the database doesn't work.

ssh in, run "df -h" and post the output

so long,

Hias

sunlollyking · April 5, 2023 at 8:44 AM

Mglae - Deliberately left everything this time and rebooted 2/3 times and still safe mode

HiassofT here's my output

##############################################

# LibreELEC #

# https://libreelec.tv #

##############################################

LibreELEC (community): nightly-20230403-bb4c561 (Generic.x86_64)

LibreELEC:~ # df -h

Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on

devtmpfs 7.5G 4.0K 7.5G 0% /dev

tmpfs 3.0G 13.8M 3.0G 0% /run

/dev/nvme0n1p1 511.7M 227.0M 284.7M 44% /flash

/dev/loop0 197.0M 197.0M 0 100% /

/dev/nvme0n1p2 456.9G 19.7G 437.2G 4% /storage

tmpfs 7.6G 0 7.6G 0% /dev/shm

tmpfs 7.6G 2.6M 7.6G 0% /var

tmpfs 7.6G 0 7.6G 0% /tmp

/dev/sda 14.4T 9.4T 4.3T 69% /var/media/MEDIA DRIVE 2

/dev/sdb1 14.4T 12.0T 1.7T 87% /var/media/MEDIA DRIVE

LibreELEC:~ #

**HiassofT** · April 5, 2023 at 10:28 AM

Thanks for checking, you have plenty of space free so we can tick that idea off the list.

so long,

Hias

sunlollyking · April 5, 2023 at 11:59 AM

I'm gutted but i think i might have to do a clean install and then try and restore as much as i can because there doesn't seem to be anyway to get out of safe mode.

**mglae** · April 5, 2023 at 3:41 PM

sunlollyking Are new *-FAILED.zip files generated in /storage/logfiles? If yes please post the latest.