Posts by Bedford

Have you tried to assess the pure network speed using tools like iperf3?

Currently I'm not using a RPi+USB+SMB, but I remember the RPi was a bit picky about the power supply, so you may want to check the logs about any related error or warning messages. Does the external HDD have an own power supply?

Hi,

have you checked the settings for the CEC-adapter? System -> Settings -> Input, there's an entry where you can select which device to power on during startup.

Regards,

Oliver

Hi,

I'm also running LE 12.0.1 on a RPi 400. Recently I've noticed some weird, random problems with CEC. Everything is working fine and than at some point CEC is no longer working with Kodi (can't use the remote control to interact with Kodi, everything else is working: controlthe TV, AV receiver; LE is still alive, ssh working etc.). After rebooting LE everything is fine again.

Checking the config, I've also noticed the two libCEC adapters. May this be the source of my problems or should I look elsewhere?

TIA!

Regards,

Oliver

Sorry, I wasn't watching this thread anymore.

I'm currently using LE on a RPi 400 - no more issues regarding crashes due to low memory, picture cache overflow, SMB errors etc. So I think your problem is unrelated.

I occasionally get the a.m. error message - which in my case is correct, the file Kodi tries to open is a directory in reality (and contains the backup of a DVD).

Regards,

Oliver

Hi,

I finally got a RPi 400 (DE) for 79,90 € from the shop CvH mentioned. Fast delivery, good price, KODI seems to be working fine, so I'm quite happy.

Regards,

Oliver

Hi Guys,

many thanks for the valuable input.

I think I'll stick to the RaspPi 400. I wasn't aware that at the current price of 79,- € it is quite a bargain, compared to the alternatives (no need for case and new power supply). I'm not sure I can use the keyboard, though (I have to hide my RPi in a sideboard from my two toddlers, they've already killed my subwoofer...).

Regards,

Oliver

PS: That's getting really annoying. 5 min ago the RPi 400 was available for 79,90 incl. shipping. But no longer. The best current offer is >90,- € or the kit for 115,-

Ok,

what seems available for less than 100 € (4 GB configuration; only the board) here in Germany:

Odroid C4

Rock Pi 3 A

Banana PI BPI-M5

Regards,

Oliver

Hi,

currently I'm using LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 3 B (no media attached, everything fetched over the network; connected to normal TV via Receiver; HDMI-CEC would be vital). Overall I'm happy with the setup, but I run into more and more issues which seem to be hardware limitations of the RPi 3 (memory, ability to play H.265 Full-HD, ...).

The logical upgrade path would be a RPi 4, but currently it is not really available.

So what other choices are there? My budget is around 100,- €.

Odroid C4? Banana, Orange, Rock Pi? Is LE the best choice for these devices or should I look elsewhere? Currently, 4K is not relevant, but of course will be become in the future...

Regards,

Oliver

With cma-512 the issue is gone (almost). I succeeded in crashing Kodi once, but failed to reproduce it (scrolling pictures, album covers, artist images).

Da Flex: changing to NFS didn't make a difference.

I'll change my standard installation to cma-512, too and will report if the situation has resolved.

Regards,

Oliver

Hi,

do you need the debug output in the crash log? I seems I'm getting to the sizelimit of pastecrash - no URL is created, although with 'pastecrash -c' I see the whole log (around 1.6M). ('echo Hello world. | curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io' works too)

Regards,

Oliver

Pastecrash (new crash):

http://ix.io/41rO

Interestingly, this time it was a bit harder to provoke a crash & reboot.

Regards,

Oliver

Using LibreELEC-RPi2.arm-11.0-nightly-20220701-10d897b.img I can provoke a crash by accessing my picture folder (I haven't tested scrolling through my album covers as populating the database is a bit time consuming).

Logs: http://ix.io/41od

I've overwritten my spare SD card with "dd". Is this what you meant with "different" SD card, or do you really mean a physically different one?

Regards,

Oliver

Rebooted into a clean LE 10 install. Attached my Music-SMB share, populated the database and scrolled my Albums: no crash.

Connected the image folder (s. above): crash after scrolling a few pictures.

I'll try to get a full log, but Kodi is heavily used in the evenings...

Oliver

The easy part: After increasing cma size to 448 I can scroll all of my album covers (>1600) without crash.

LE still crashes, when trying to access photos on my NAS (to be precise: directory with 178 photos@24 MPixel, each jpg around 4 MB)

I'll try to find a spare micro SD...

Oliver

This was my advancedsettings.xml:

<advancedsettings version="1.0">
  <cache>
    <!--- Settings to improve drop-out behavviour during audio playback -->
    <buffermode>0</buffermode> <!-- perhaps only relevant to video? -->
    <memorysize>60000000</memorysize> <!-- approx. default * 2 -->
  </cache>
  <samba>
    <doscodepage></doscodepage>
    <clienttimeout>10</clienttimeout>
    <statfiles>false</statfiles>
  </samba> 

</advancedsettings>

Removed it, rebooted. Trying to scroll through my albums: crash after entry 76...

Regards,

Oliver

To repeat the already stated facts: meddling with the a.m. values was a result of crashes with the stock configuration - not the other way around. Reverting to original values makes the situation worse, KODI crashes after shorter times/less entries scrolled.

Here is the current journal.log:

Here the altered config.txt:

Oliver

Quote from Da Flex

If you provide a log, then we could get a proof for bad caching implementation, and Kodi team hopefully reacts:

I think this behaviour has already been documented by other people on the web.

Anyway, while trying to paste the log I noticed that "pastekodi" does not produce any link. "pastekodi -c" does indeed show the crash log incl. segfault. Pasting the logs from the GUI failed, too.

I can't paste KODI.log manually, as it exceeds the size limit of pastebin.com with 3.2 MB

Here's the journal log with the segfault:

Regards,

Oliver

Hi,

I'm running LibreELEC 10 on a Raspberry Pi 3 B. When scrolling through a big picture collection (e.g. Album covers in the Music folder), LE hangs and then crashes/reboots.

After some web search I've meddled with the parameters "gpu_mem=192" and "dtoverlay=cma,cma-384" in /flash/config.txt, which seems to improve the situation, but does not solve the issue completely.

As I don't have a clue what I'm doing here: what are the "correct" values?

TIA,

Oliver