Official LE13 Test Images for Amlogic (Kodi-22)

    Dusted off my Minix Neo U9-H again to try my kinda-yearly attempt at reviving it again. I tried booting the latest image from your testing share, but it did not boot properly; Kodi did not manage to start. The first boot, it got stuck on repeatedly starting and stopping kodi.service, the second boot, the Kodi splash screen actually showed up, but it just remained there indefinitely.


    I booted into textmode and got the journalctl and dmesg logs.


    journalctl:

    https://paste.libreelec.tv/accurate-hermit.log


    dmesg:

    https://paste.libreelec.tv/joint-magpie.log


    Any idea what might be the problem? The problems are very similar to what I encountered last time I tried LE on this box, and this issue was fixed at some point in the testing shares (although there were still other issues), but seems to have resurfaced.

    Computeraar If the problem is "Kodi won't start" a textmode boot log isn't going to show anything useful because Kodi isn't being started. Create /storage/.kodi/userdata/advancedsettings.xml with this content to put Kodi in debug mode:

    XML
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<advancedsettings version="1.0">
  <loglevel hide="false">1</loglevel>
</advancedsettings>
    • Then touch /storage/.config/safemode.disable to ensure that safe.mode doesn't kick in
    • Then tail -F /storage/.kodi/temp/kodi.log > log_dump with capital F and tail will wait/watch for the file appearing
    • Then systemctl start kodi and allow it to fail a couple of times before stopping the service
    • Then cat log_dump | paste and share the URL
    • Then systemctl | paste and share the URL

    If we're lucky the logs might have some clues on what the problem is ..

    While testing best practice is to disable kodi restart at all. Create (with path):

    Code: /storage/.config/system.d/kodi.service.d/norestart.conf
    [Service]
Restart=no

    then reboot to create fresh logs - kodi is only started once. Finally:

    Bash
    pastekodi
pastecrash

    I was playing around with some custom Android ROMs as well, and am now stuck on some Android 7 ROM from which I can't boot LibreELEC. Also can't seem to flash any other Android ROM with the Amlogic Burning Tool, as I just get an error.


    Will report back here and do as you guys suggested once I (hopefully) manage to solve this and am able to boot LE again