Posts by u144175

I tried the command 'touch /storage/ .please_resize_me' then rebooted. Unfortunately, I received the following error "sizing is not permitted - the system has already been initialised." and the partition remained unchanged.

However, I was able to use Gparted via another system to resize the /storage partition on the card and upon plugging back into the RPi4 and rebooting, voilà, everything is working!

Not a completely satisfying resolution as I would have liked to know why the auto-resizing was not taking place upon first boot of the RPi with LibreElec 10.0.0 & 10.0.1 as it was supposed to, but I am very happy to be back in business with the latest version of LibreElec.

Thank you all very much for sharing your knowledge and for your willingness to assist those of us like me that have relatively little knowledge / experience. It really is uplifting to experience this community spirit.

All the best!

Thank you for your response. I have been doing a brand new clean install each and every time. Have formatted the card between installs (I know this should not be necessary since you are then just going to write over the card with an image), and have used two different micro SD cards for each of the installs, one 16GB, the other 32GB. Both cards are SanDisk and both are new. Thus, I do not believe the card(s) (or any of the hardware) is at issue.

As far as I know, I am using the official site to download the LibreElec install file, https://libreelec.tv/downloads/raspberry/. I have located the page showing mirror sites and would be glad to try downloading from the Netherlands, for example, or some other non-US location. However, I now believe this also would not address the issue because...

Based on your comment of the log file indicating the temp file cannot be written to, I went to System Information / Storage, and I see the following:

Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on

/dev/mmcblk0p1 511.7M 141.9M 369.9M 28% /flash

/dev/mmcblk0p2 26.0M 21.4M 3.9M 85% /storage

Given /storage is 85% full, I assume this is why the temp folder cannot be written to. The installation of each skin / service / add-on must be requiring more free space than is available for all the files each pulls for installation. So, the question now becomes, how / why is this happening? It makes no sense to me that the sizes shown above are in MB. The card used this time is the 16 GB card. It was formatted to 16 GB. The Raspberry imager sees it as 16 GB when the LibreELEC-RPi4.arm-10.0.1.img.gz image file is fed to it. Something is causing these partitions to be set too small when the LibreElec image is written to the card. I do not know how to resolve this.

For comparison, on the 32GB card, I presently have loaded LibreElec 9.2.8 / Kodi 18. It shows:

Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on

/dev/mmcblk0p1 511.7M 144.4M 367.3M 28% /flash

/dev/mmcblk0p2 28.3G 168.8M 28.1G 1% /storage

Not apples to apples obviously, but the point of this comparison is that /storage under LibreElec 9.2.8 is using the vast majority of the card's overall space, not a very small portion as I am seeing under LibreElec 10.0.1. This appears to be the issue however I have no idea how to troubleshoot / resolve this. Found some instructions via Google that provided some detail on how to resize partitions but upon attempting, I receive a bunch of messages that such is not allowed under LibreElec for security and stability reasons.

Is there a way to manually force partition sizes during the LibreElec image burn to the card? The only override, if you want to call it that, that I know of is CTRL_SHIFT X which I have used to pervide network credentials, enable SSH, and set time zone as a part of the image burn.

Again, thank you very much you for insight here.

I have double checked the internet connection. Also, the other installations of OSMC and LibreElec 9.2.8/Kodi 18 were done using the same hardwired ether connection and no network settings were changed between the various installs so I am sure that is not it. (Plus, the old RPi2 used this same hardwired connection and no settings on the router, etc have been changed.)

I enabled debug logging and attempted to upload the Kodi log file using the Kodi logfile uploader from the Kodi official repo but, you guessed it, it will not install. So, I manually copied it using file manager and placed in pastebin here. If this tells you anything of interest, please advise as I'd be extremely grateful! Thank you in advance.

I should be able to install skins, correct? I should be able to install subtitles, correct? Add-ons from the official Kodi repo also will not install. Nothing does.

Sorry I should have been more clear. I did a fresh install on all attempts. It does not matter which add-on I try, none will load. Neither will skins, or services such as subtitles. Unknown sources is turned on. It is like any change whatsoever is disallowed. I have never seen anything like it before.

I realize it is a different process but I also attempted to install Kodi 19 on my Windows PC. It was successful and I could install things like the Confluence skin, The Oath add-on, Opensubtitles, etc, etc. Everything just works. Did a fresh install on the RPi4 of the latest version of OSMC and Kodi 19 and it has no problem installing add-ons, skins, services, etc.

With this and all the above in my first post, it makes me think it is something in LibreElec 10.0.1 (and 10.0.0 because I tried a fresh install of it too and it also would not allow installation of anything) which is causing this issue.

Am upgrading my RPi2B 1GB running LibreElec 9.2.6 / Kodi 18 to a new RPi4 8GB. Attempted installation of LibreELEC-RPi4.arm-10.0.1.img.gz; installation went fine however I could get NO addons, skins, anything at all to load once Kodi 19 was running. Every attempt resulted in 'installation failed' error. Messed with various settings to no avail. Eventually tried loading LibreELEC-RPi4.arm-9.2.8.img.gz. This older version LibreElec (w/ Kodi 18) worked flawlessly. Anyone else had this situation? Is there an easy fix? (Go easy on me as I am not well versed in system level programming so step by step instructions would be appreciated . As a part of the troubleshooting steps I took, I downloaded / installed Kodi 19 with a different operating system and everything worked. So, the issue is only with the LE10.0.1 / Kodi 19 combination. Thank you in advance.