Posts by phil369

Quick situation update ... my issue is resolved. Cloning to another SD card did the trick. I think I may have run out of storage space on the old SD card. Go figure ... thank you for your kind help!

Thanks. Tried to mount my clone in windows but raspbian does not detect it.

Oh well, I've now ordered a new SD card.

I will then clone to the new SD and try to reproduce the error using the new SD card.

If the clone is getting the same result I'll proceed to test the fsck command on the clone.

Hopefully fsck will fix the issue and I can get the new sd card booting into kodi.

Fingers crossed.

Thank you. I think you are right. Looks like a file system error.

SSH does not connect. The only way I manage to 'read' the SD card is going through Raspbian desktop.

I thought about cloning the SD card using Win32DiskImager but not sure this will resolve the issue.

Anyway, I have taken a clone for now.

Is there perhaps a file checker in Raspbian that I could use to fix the file system error?

Thank you. Much appreciated.

This said, I have failed on the first hurdle ... I cannot add the new file due to lack of permissions on the SD card.

Permission Denied

I am using raspbian desktop on a vm to read the SD card.

Tried the su - command to login as root ... and used the touch command to add a new file ... this created the file but when I detached the SD card it was gone again.

I also tried to SSH using PuTTY (port 22) from my windows desktop to the Raspberry Pi but no response

However, I was able to decipher an onscreen error in very small print - Error in Mount_storage: mount_common: Could not mount

Any idea what I could do to troubleshoot / resolve this error?

Hi, I am in a bit of a pickle ... my trusted Raspberry Pi with Kodi running on LibreELEC is not booting beyond the Just enough OS for Kodi screen.

I have been able to access the Kodi logs but given the system does not boot into Kodi there are no current error logs.

The most recent Kodi log files are from last week which is not helpful.

Sometime between last week and today the system must have crashed, rebooted and ever since it is stuck on the Just enough OS for Kodi screen.

Any suggestions how I can troubleshoot this?

I assume the system does record boot logs somewhere but I was unable to locate them.

Any idea where I can find them?

Also, is there perhaps a way I can emulate running the USB from within my Raspberry PI desktop test environment?

If yes, what commands do I need to use to emulate the USB?

I think this would help rule out any h/w issue with my Raspberry Pie.

Any ideas? Hope someone can help me.

Thanks

Phil

I ran the command ... total 0

All good!

Once more ... thank you!

Hi Hias, I have run your command ...

ls -l /storage/cache/.cores/ | head -10

... and the return is ... No such file or directory

I think deleting the spotify add-on has resolved my problem.

Thank you all for your great help.

Sorry, missed what you had said in your earlier post ... ls -l /storage/.cache/cores

I've run the command and it turns out it was spotify ... I deleted the add-on and all looks good.

Happy Days

Thank you. Any suggestions how to identify what's writing to cache\cores?

Worked like a charm.

I will keep an eye on the cache\cores directory. It now has 138 MB.

Thank you so much for helping out.

Greatly appreciated!

Sorry, just seen your reply ... thank you! I will give it a shot

Ok, did some Linux research and found out that "du -h" returns storage size in readable format.

Low and behold my cache\cores folder has a whopping 11.4 GB of data.

So far so good but how do I get it purged?

Any ideas?

Addendum ... my entire card seems to have stored 27,026,616 which is almost double the size of the actual storage card.

Could it perhaps be that the du command reads each byte by a factor of 2 when compared to a WINDOWS machine?

Anyway, here are the two directories in comparison ...

2573920 ./.kodi

23811512 ./.cache

I am ok with the size of Kodi but the cache directory seems to have ballooned out of proportion. is there an easy way to purge it?

Hi, I managed to get SSH working; no idea what has changed but bingo; I can PuTTY into my LibreELEC.

Now, running the above du command I have identified the folder ./.cache/cores to have 23,811,216. This seems ludicrously high.

Any idea where I need to go to clear this cache?

Thank you!

Having looked into my SSH issue ... I have found a note that SSH will only work on LibreELEC when turned on during the installation.

Note: SSH has to be enabled at the very first start of LE (installation wizard). Otherwise the SSH service isn't available.

I assume I have missed that boat then. In fact I can turn it on in the LibreELEC configuration tab - it gives me the option - but it seems this is not working.

Any idea how to enable SSH retrospectively in LibreELEC 7.0.2?

Thank you for your response. Greatly appreciated.

Debugging is turned off and the event log contains just few MB. Does not seem to be the issue.

I agree, SSH would help; I have tried everything. Perhaps the problem is with my network router; difficult to say.

Anyway, I have ordered a larger SD card. Once I have the old one cloned I'll mount it to the Raspbian VM to check what the problem is.

And thanks for sending the command - hope to get it working

Hi, I have a strange problem ... my LibreELEC 7.0.2 running on a Raspberry Pi has filled up the 12GB SD card and the system stopped working. So far so good.

I then connected to the box from a windows machine using the IP and I noticed a 2.5 GB backup file on the storage card.

I moved the backup to another network location, freeing up the much needed space and all seemed good.

Now, a day later my SD card is full again but there is no backup file. So I am a bit at a loss what could have taken up the space in a matter of a few hours.

Looking at the LibreELEC SD card from my windows PC I cannot find any sizable data chunks that clog the system.

I assume I really need to read the card from a Linux machine to be able to see what's on it.

So I tried to SSH into the box using PuTTY but this failed (couldn't agree a host key algorithm). SSH is enabled through the LibreELEC config interface.

Now, here are my questions ...

(a) what else can I do to read the contents of my SD card to identify what is clogging it. I do have Raspbian running on a VM but again I am unable to connect to the SD using SSH. Error No matching host key type found.

(b) way back in time I have installed Retrogames and I suspect this might have eaten up a lot of storage space; I have already un-installed the add-on but I am not sure if there is more to remove that may reside outside of LibreELEC.

(c) is there an easy way to read from within LibreELEC what add-on's take up most space?

Anyway, your help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks