Posts by milhouse

Seems to be a Python3 regression: Issue 5537: LWPCookieJar cannot handle cookies with expirations of 2038 or greater on 32-bit platforms - Python tracker

I've queried this on the issue.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. The iwlwifi-cc-a0-46.ucode firmware appeared after 5.1-rc7 but before 5.1.0, and we missed it when preparing the 5.1.0 bump (my fault - I didn't sync the firmwares after 5.1-rc7). We'll make sure it's in the next LibreELEC 9.2.x release.

Try testing with a wired Ethernet connection, to rule out WiFi as the problem.

If you've modified /storage/.config/samba.conf while using OpenELEC then delete it and test again with the default LibreELEC Samba server config.

Failing that, a fresh install probably isn't a bad idea.

I assume vpeter is referring to his post in the thread you linked: this post. Without any visibility of the changes you are actually using, I'll let you sort it out with vpeter.

SD cards can become very slow when almost full, but other than that I've not noticed any particular slow-down.

Although 9.0.2 and 9.1.501 are based on the same 4.19.y kernel, there have been many bug fixes between 4.19.36 (used by 9.0.2) and 4.19.66 (9.1.501).

Have you tested LibreELEC when installed to a different SD card (different make/different model)?

Do you get these same timeouts if you install Raspbian on to this 32GB Samsung EVO Class 10 SD card?

This seems to be a fairly rare and difficult issue to resolve, judging by the comments on the github issue.

natumbri your config diff is incomplete, you'll need a few more: http://ix.io/1wyu

shedrock with stock Estuary, if you open the Information page for an episode (while not playing a video - ie. navigate your media library to a tvshow > season > episode) do you see the cast names and thumbnails across the top of the screen, as in the following image:

Strange, Samba compiles fine here. Does it compile successfully without your lib2to3 changes?

Can you paste a link to all of your changes, and the exact command line you are using for your build?

My guess is that the problem is not actually with Samba, but that your changes have introduced a failure elsewhere (in another package) and the Samba package may be a collateral failure. Uploading your plan and history files would also be useful (you can find them in the "build.*/.threads" folder). In fact, zipping up the entire ".threads" folder and then uploading it somewhere would be very helpful as it would enable me to investigate the build failure.

OK sorry, don't know what the issue is then.

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and I imagine there's at least 100MB (?) of data in memory which could just be compressed and left there?

What is this 100MB of data you are referring to - is it the squashfs image? This is already compressed so using zram to compress it again in RAM would not result in any significant benefit, and would in fact use more CPU to perform multiple rounds of uncompress/compress.

LibreELEC is designed to perform well within the memory constraints of the target device, eg. 1GB RAM on RPi3, which (on everything other than RPi0/RPi1) still leaves sufficient spare RAM to run a few background applications/services, so zram/zswap should not be necessary.

However if users choose to load the system to the point where all the available RAM is in use then that's not really a problem I think is worth solving with zram/zswap - the better solution is to partition your services on to dedicated/appropriate hardware so that LibreELEC as an HTPC client is running optimally (not having RAM/CPU intended for Kodi stolen by other background tasks) or continue using a single device but one with more physical RAM and/or faster CPU (4GB RPi4?)

Adding zram may mean more RAM appears to be available to applications, but it will also consume more CPU so what you gain on the one hand you lose on the other - you may have plenty of RAM available with zram but you may then experience stuttering during video playback as you are now CPU bound.

Planning on using any form of swap is a bad idea, particularly if your swap file is stored on SD card - it will be very slow, with or without zswap. Swap should only be used as a last resort.

There are several zram/zswap posts on the Raspberry Pi forum - this is probably one worth taking note of:

swap in Raspbian: More trouble than it is worth? - Raspberry Pi Forums

zram/zswap is a pretty niche requirement and not likely one that 99.99% of users will need. If you (or anyone else) wanted to test zram/zswap then the best option would be to enable the kernel configuration options and build your own custom/community LibreELEC: Compile [LibreELEC.wiki]

Humour me and check on all your clients (LibreELEC & Windows) what scrapers you have installed & enabled in:

Settings > Add-ons > My add-ons > Information providers > TV Information

"The TVDB" scraper is not included/installed by default in LibreELEC so you'll need to install it if you're using a fresh LibreELEC installation. If "The TVDB" scraper is installed but not enabled, then enable it.

If you're seeing cast details for Movies then this might mean you're scraping your Movies with the "The Movie Database" scraper which *is* installed/included as standard in LibreELEC. If you'd scraped your movies on Windows with, say, "Universal Movie Scraper" (UMS) then you'd be missing the cast information when viewing your Movies on LibreELEC clients when those clients do not have UMS installed.

I've only skimmed your various posts but the behaviour can be 100% explained by a missing metadata scraper on your clients when using a centralised MySQL database.

If you haven't installed the same TV information scraper on all your clients as you have on Windows, then you'll only see limited information on the clients that lack the TV scraper - so make sure you've installed the same TV scraper (TVDB?) on your LibreELEC clients, and then the cast info should appear.

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Post your kodi debug log - go into Kodi > Settings > LibreELEC > System, then in the right hand pane scroll to the bottom of the list and click on the "Upload latest Kodi log and configs" item, then paste the link.

Sorry for the delay, forgot about this thread.

SMB2/SMB3 should be working out of the box with Windows 7+ (including Windows 10), there's actually no need to tweak or change any settings, and in fact it is working for pretty much everyone else so I can't really think of a good reason why it's not working for you.

At the moment I can only think there's something you've done (in terms of configuration) which you've forgotten to mention, or there is some other issue with your network (firewall, perhaps?)

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Google translates my viewing of the linked page.

Screenshot last 2 lines.

WeTek have donated thousands of dollars to The XBMC Foundation, thousands of dollars to OpenELEC (all to sraue) but they certainly have not donated thousands of dollars to LibreELEC.

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I'll respond with this forum

Is this someone you know ?

Sorry, my Portuguese is a little rusty but a quick scan didn't reveal any evidence of a $3000 donation, so what's your point?

I know chewitt, and we have been in contact with WeTek management in the past, and we have received hardware donations from WeTek and pretty much every vendor whose hardware we support (that's how development on SBCs works, mostly). And that's not even a secret. Nor is it any evidence of payments from vendors to fund development, as has been claimed. You're barking up the wrong tree, fella.