[x86-64] [LE 12.0.2] Skin's settings reset after exit...

Nicodeme · April 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM

Hello !

I recently installed LibreElec 12.0.2, which includes Kodi 21.2 on my NUC. I have reinstall AeonMQ9 via AeonMQ9 Mod Omega by latts.

And... I encountered a problem. After installing the skin under the basic 'Master User' profile via latts repo, I created two profiles, 'Parents' and 'Children'. I don't applied configuration and source sharing to them, separating everything and requesting that everything be created from scratch.
Then I went through each profile to configure the display. I systematically deactivated all existing menus (Movies, TV Shows, Games, etc.) except Settings and Exit. Then I create the menus/submenus I need, based on playlists.

I switched skins, just to make sure it saved correctly. No problem switching profiles, I can find my menus again.

I turned off the NUC, just to do a final check upon reboot. I arrived at the page to select the profile, tried 'Parents': the whole configuration was reset !
I tried 'Children', and the same thing happened...

It seems to have something to do with the 'Exit' function...

Is this a known problem and is there a solution?

I retrieved the logs.
Kodi.old.log = my configuration session.
hastebin

Kodi.log = restart and lost my settings.
hastebin

Thanks in advance for your responses.

**chewitt** · April 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM

I won't be suprised if there's a bug in profiles as it's a neglected/unloved and not well maintained part of Kodi's vast codebase. It is known to be imperfect and need work, but until someone volunteers themselves for the task that's how it remains. It's best you post the bug report in Kodi forums as it won't be an LE specific issue and it's not something LE can fix.

Nicodeme · April 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM

OK. But then why, when testing on my Windows 11 PC, with the same version of Kodi and the same version of the skin, don't I encounter the problem?

I still posted on the Kodi forum as you suggested, but I wouldn't be so quick to draw conclusions.

**chewitt** · April 30, 2025 at 11:51 AM

Profiles *should* be a platform neutral capability, but when it comes to saving things you need to interact with the filesystem and that means different platform-specific code paths come into play (Windows filesystems are not the same as Linux ones). It would be useful to test Kodi on another Linux distro and prove it fails the same way.