LE 13.0-nightly for Exynos Odroid XU4 no longer boots

TuxOhOlic · October 30, 2025 at 7:58 AM

I guess I'm one of the few who occasionally test new nightly images for the xu4, so starting with LibreELEC-Exynos.arm-13.0-nightly-20250730-ecfa284-odroid-xu4 the testserver images no longer boot. The blue led is blinking, but the display stays blank.

Can somebody with an xu4 uart cable check what is happening? This seems to be present in all images I checked since then.

So last one working is LibreELEC-Exynos.arm-13.0-nightly-20250725-f0482de-odroid-xu4. I noticed 4 consecutive missed daily builds in that timespan, could this be related?

**heitbaum** · October 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM

Guessing the kernel update. - 6.15.6 to 6.16

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Is ssh / samba working? Just the display (or all)

TuxOhOlic · October 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM

no, can't even ping the device, so the router did not hand out an ip to conman. Can I just use the previous kernel from 07.25 with it's dtb file and check against a current system squash file?

tetienne · December 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM

Hello,

thanks for info. I'm getting the same issue on XU4Q, as you mentioned, build from 0725 where as latest ones do not boot anymore.

tetienne · December 8, 2025 at 12:28 AM

So... heitbaum was wright, it's due to kernel 6.16 update.

I just got a successful boot with kernel 6.16, I now have to rebase everything and check that everything is working fine with all latest commits.

tetienne · December 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM

At the moment I'm just able to boot and run with kernel 6.16. With kernels 6.16.1 I can boot but kodi crashes right after.

In the end I could add the driver I wanted in kernel 6.16 and it's working like a charm booting from SD. However, booting from EMMC doesn't work, where as I'm able to boot an ubuntu image from EMMC

**heitbaum** · December 16, 2025 at 10:19 AM

tetienne unsure what state you have your Samsung in? What changes were required? Are you saying that an image with 6.16.0 works but 6.16.1 fails? What are the logs? Does 6.18 work? SD is the place to start. You would need to share the uboot uart logs of the emmc boot? What uboot is being used?