Reboot loop but no Safe Mode

    Hi there.

    My 12.0.2 installation on a RasPi 4 entered a reboot loop last night for some reason (installed a new weather Kodi-supplied weather app (Open-Meteo) and turned the wifi networking on with the wired network active (something I've done before)). I suspect Open-Meteo. All good so far; these things happen.

    Unfortunately though, no matter how many times it reboots in 900 seconds, it's not entering Safe Mode.

    What options does that leave me? Is there a manual activation of Safe Mode? I haven't tried yet, it's rebooting quickly enough (as soon as it loads Open-Meteo in Kodi, I suspect) I won't have enough time to connect via SSH, let alone delete anything.

    You can disable wifi via device-tree overlay in config.txt to eliminate that although it's unlikely to be an issue unless the PSU is not sufficient. You can also add "textmode" to boot params in cmdline.txt and the OS will boot to a text console instead of Kodi so you can either connect a USB keyboard or SSH in to delete/move the open-meteo addon from /storage/.kodi/addons and look at Kodi crashlogs for clues. Revert the change and reboot and it will boot back into Kodi again.

    I'm so dumb. It only just occurred to me I'm allowed to take the SD card and work on it externally. That'll make it easier than editing a running, crashing system. 😂

    Thank you for the pointers. I'll get that sorted and come back and announce if it's resolved.

    The addon is on the /storage partition which is formatted as EXT4 so will only be readable from another Linux device. Unless you have one lying around the textmode option will be easiest.

    As expected, deleting the Open-Meteo plugin folder seems to have done the trick. (Note to self: don't reinstall Open-Meteo)

    Thank you for your help, and your efforts generally. Top stuff.