Posts by felichas

Thanks HiassofT for the information. It is something I could not find anywhere else.

I noticed that .kodi/temp has more stuff than just kodi.log, kodi.old.log and crashes.

It has archive_cache and temporary scrapping information. I've never had to go back to any of these in 4 years and thought it would be wise to move them all to ram. And to do it in a way that could be reverted if I ever needed to investigate an issue.

This is what I ended up doing. It works fine for me, but it might be a nicer way to do it.

# cd /storage/.kodi
# mv temp temp_original
# ln -s /var/log temp
# reboot

Upon reboot all the folder structure inside temp gets created. Remember that the initial temp folder was moved to temp_original.

If you need to investigate anything, even by enabling debug, you can still go to /storage/.kodi/temp/kodi.log it will all be there.

The only caveat is that it will dissapear after reboot. But this can be sorted temporarily by undoing the above temporarily:

# cd /storage/.kodi
# mv temp temp_in_ram
# mv temp_original temp

Hi brunetton,

You can find an example here:

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RE: How to mount an external USB HDD in read-only mode?

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I know what files it deleted, because it printed to the screen the name of the corrupted files.

If something works well for you, it doesn't necessary mean that it will work well for everyone else. In my cases there was data corruption and please accept this fact. This topic is not about what suits you or anyone well. I just came here to find a solution to the question asked in the very first post -- I just want to mount the drive read only, that's all.

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morfik

August 23, 2020 at 6:52 PM

Regards,

Hi,

I think your problem is not with LibreELEC, but with the skin itself.

I just got a new RPi4 that is meant to upgrade my actual RPi3+OSMC I have been running for years.
Due to the Kodi 19 situation you mention above, I ended up installing LibreELEC 9.2.6 on it, an it runs great. Faster and with less CPU usage, specially h265, but also the UI.

I read your message and decided to test Aura myself and let you know how it goes in a PRI4 system that has just been built 2 days ago.

And the short answer is: it doesn't.

I followed this instructions to install: Add-on:Aura - Official Kodi Wiki

I did it twice, and it always gets stuck on "Initialising Skin..." If you scape this it moves into "Loading Home menu..." but the home menu is missing items (Movies and TV shows).

When you exit settings, you lose contro and need to reboot LibreELEC via ssh>reboot.

I didn't look any further, but it is clear to me that this skin has problems. MatteN mentioned above it's support has stopped. And things are going to get a lot worse with Kodi 19, as python2 is not supported anymore.

If you do not like Estuary, you will have to find again some other skin your wife likes.

My advice: make sure it doesn't use python2 or at least that they have it in their roadmap. Otherwise you will be in the same situation again when you move to Kodi 19.

I also suggest you stick with 9.2.6 for now, and use a spare SD card to test LibreELEC v10+ before deciding to upgrade.

About your question about the SD cards: I really doubt it will make any difference.

With a fast microSD card, my system boots in 20s and is fast and snappy.

With my slowest microSD card (a card I cannot use for Kali for how slow it is), my system boots in 30s and is fast and snappy.
My understanding is that once booted, LibreELEC loads mostly everything in memory. I personally use my slow card for LibreELEC and save the good one for other tasks on other RPis I have around.

Regards,