LibreElec 8.1.1 black screen with mouse pointer

km4n · September 22, 2017 at 6:41 PM

Hello,

I have an old Acer 5742 laptop on which I have LibreElec installed. Connected it to an AVR which is connected to a TV.

I initially installed 8.0.0 a few months back and recently upgraded to 8.1.1. I noticed now that I when I restart my computer, there is about 2-3 minutes delay where the mouse is stuck on the black screen before the Kodi splash screen and the application is launched.

I am attaching the dmesg log here: FViE

Hope this helps... Thank you!

**milhouse** · September 23, 2017 at 5:20 AM

Please post the link to your kodi.log with debug logging enabled (enable debug logging, reboot, then post your log once Kodi has started).

Also, the contents of "journalctl -a | pastebinit" would be interesting - please post that link too.

km4n · September 23, 2017 at 5:15 PM

Hello, please see:

kodi.log > 6CXMtcdw

journalctl > dYMV

**milhouse** · September 23, 2017 at 9:11 PM

Thanks, that's interesting. Can you run the following and paste the url:

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ls -la /storage/.cache/cores | pastebinit

km4n · September 24, 2017 at 3:32 PM

Hi Millhouse, thank you! I figured out the issue was in /storage/.cache/cores

There were a lot of :

-rw------- 1 root root 12845056 Sep 23 13:49 core.!storage!.kodi!addons!plugin.audio.spotify!resources!lib!spotty!x86-linux!spotty-x86_64.1506188942.11327

See hYNF

I just deleted the entire folder first using:

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 find . -name '*.spotify*' -print0 | xargs -0 rm

Then just removed the folder

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rm -r /storage/.cache/cores

Startup is back to normal under 5 seconds from black screen to Kodi splash screen.

Thanks once again!

**milhouse** · September 24, 2017 at 4:12 PM

Thanks, can reproduce. Have submitted a fix for the next LE8.2.

**chewitt** · September 25, 2017 at 6:14 PM Official Post

The fix went into 8.1.2