Posts by nevernow

  • Disabling gdb

    Hi,

    I run LibreELEC 9.2.8 on an Rpi3 and it crashes often, usually when starting playback of music or video. I'm fine with the crashes for the time being, the hardware is weak and my library is huge and it's usually a trivial OOM issue.

    My problem is that Kodi takes about half an hour to die, because of gdb, while it only takes about a minute to restart. Now a crash followed by having a fresh, snappy Kodi instance in a minute is not too bad, but a crash that leaves you with an unusable device for 30 minutes gets annoying.

    I read the script that launches Kodi and gdb is always used, even when debugging is disabled. As we all now, the partition where the script resides is read-only, so it can't be changed. I've tried overriding the gdb executable in the path with a dummy script, but it didn't seem to work.

    Now I understand the reasoning behind the gdb thing and how it helps troubleshooting, so I'm not requesting any global change, but is there any workaround that I can use to just run Kodi without gdb?

    Thanks in advance! :)

  • ...a bit more OS? :) locate, PATH, bashrc

    Quote from lrusak


    We don't use bash

    also, path can be amended using add-ons (or you can fudge the path yourself)

    see, LibreELEC.tv/99-kodi.conf at master · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub

    Thanks for your reply!

    About bash, I typed .bashrc by habit, but already now putting some commands in such file and running "# source .bashrc" just works, so it would just be a matter of automating it.

    About the PATH, it looks like it's already done (I'll take another look at your link), so cool. :)

    Any insight about mlocate? :D
    [hr]

    Quote from chewitt


    It should be possible to export any $PATH you like from autostart.sh or ~/.profile ?

    ...right. :blush: The thing is I don't have those files right now and I forgot they could be created and used. I guess this answers my request for path and sourcing custom commands. Thanks!

  • ...a bit more OS? :) locate, PATH, bashrc

    Hi, long time Open- and then LibreELEC user here. I often login via SSH to my Raspberry Pi 3 to sort out stuff: moving, renaming, reSceneing releases... Stuff. :)

    What made me come to post here is that I would find it very useful to have the locate/mlocate program on my Pi, but it's not part of the standard LibreELEC distribution and I couldn't find any addons providing it. Would it be possible to add it, or is there any specific reason why it's not there?

    While I'm here, I have a couple more small requests: adding a user-owned directory in the PATH of executable files, to store custom scripts and the like; sourcing .bashrc on login to be able to use custom command aliases and so on.

    I understand shell usage is not the focus of LibreELEC, but I think these changes would still be useful to some of us and have no negative impact (the path would be empty or not even exist for new users, the same could be done for the .bashrc file, locate could have a default configuration with no watched directories or be off by default).

    Thanks for your attention and for all the great work on LibreELEC!