[x86-64] Update to LE 12.2.1 kills my NiPoGi GK3 Pro Mini PC's

    I have two GK3 Pro mini PC's. They have been running every version of Libreelec from Matrix to Omega 21.2.

    I did an update to 21.3 on one PC and it doesn't like it. It hangs at the splash screen and after a while shows Hard and Soft Lockups. Just in case it had become corrupted, I undated the second PC too. The behaviour was the same. I have downgraded them back to 21.2.

    Does anyone know what might be causing this?


    CPU: Intel Celeron J4125

    GPU: Intel UHD Graphics GPU

    Memory: 8GB

    Storage: 256GB SSD

    Enable SSH and see if you can access the device to run “pastekodi” and share the URL or perhaps just “dmesg > dmesg.log” or “journalctl > system.log” to dump info to disk so that post-downgrade you can do “cat *.log | paste” and share URLs. In short, we need to see some logs to have any idea what the issue might be.

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    Enable SSH and see if you can access the device to run “pastekodi” and share the URL or perhaps just “dmesg > dmesg.log” or “journalctl > system.log” to dump info to disk so that post-downgrade you can do “cat *.log | paste” and share URLs. In short, we need to see some logs to have any idea what the issue might be.

    I don't think it gets as far as connecting to the network. I tried to connect with ssh but not available.

    I will try a clean install rather than upgrade, see what happens

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    Same with Generic-Legacy?

    Haven't tried. Been using Generic up until now. I thought Legacy was for NVidia cards?

    Edited once, last by Glennza: Merged a post created by Glennza into this post. (November 12, 2025 at 1:14 AM).

    Okay, here's what I have discovered:

    Clean install of 21.3 Generic freezes within a minute of booting

    Clean install of 21.3 Generic-Legacy freezes within a minute of booting

    Clean install of 21.3 Generic (latest nightly) freezes within a minute of booting

    Clean install of v13 Generic (latest nightly) seems to be happy (so far)


    The problem I have is that I am using a remote MariaDB. I updated kodi-headless to 21.3 (with the intent of then updating the mini-pc's). It has created a new database. I need to have all Kodi devices running the same version for them to use the same database. I don't seem to be able to upgrade the mini-pc's to 21.3 and I don't seem to be able to downgrade kodi-headless to 21.2 (not available). As v13 has not been released yet, there is no kodi-headless version for it.

    I don't know if the problem is an incompatibility with the Gemini Lake chipset? There doesn't appear to be anyone else having problems with the update, so I guess I'm just unlucky.

    From the descriptions it sounds like a kernel issue, but without some form of log evidence we really have nothing to research. If you remove "quiet" from kernel boot params in syslinux.cfg it will dump the system log onto the screen during boot. Record the screen as a slow-motion movie and as long as your hands are steady it's normally possible to play the resulting movie back and read the text to spot error messages. Upload load the movie to a sharing site somewhere and we can see it too.

    NB: If LE 12.0 works on the boxes (but not LE 12.2) stick on the earlier release until kodi-headless has a K22 release available. The diff between Kodi versions isn't large so it's not a 'must have' update.

    I've reverted back to LE 21.2. I'll stick with that until Kodi v13 appears. If it was affecting other users, it would be worth following up but not just for one device.