Jennero Wrote:Fixed my sharing problem by rebooting. Do settings not save when rebooting? Also how I can get XBMC in suspend mode. It doesn't seem to want to when I click on that icon. I have crystalhd installed and not getting very good performance. What playback settings should I have?

frumpy_uk Wrote:I might be an idiot. You mean this? http://pastebin.com/AjkWHWAG

Otherwise, maybe you're looking for a backtrace? I'm following the instructions on the linux help sticky but I'm getting

Code:

xbmc@AppleTV:~$ ls
afp2  backgrounds  nfs  xbmc_crashlog-20100615_145047.log
xbmc@AppleTV:~$ gdb
xbmc@AppleTV:~$ gdb /usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin ~/xbmc_crashlog-20100615_145047.log
GNU gdb 6.8-debian
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...
(no debugging symbols found)
"/home/xbmc/xbmc_crashlog-20100615_145047.log" is not a core dump: File format not recognized
(gdb) thread apply all bt
No registers.
(gdb)

Wanyika Wrote:@Sam, as you requested. Hope the log info is good enough:

XBMC log selection: http://pastebin.com/7PViTH4b
Movie details: http://pastebin.com/nJGHPYY3

davilla Wrote:AppleTV does not suspend or hibernate, this has been covered many, many times. The internal PS does not support it.

Jennero Wrote:Thanks! Is there some reason why some of my .mkv files restart XBMC? Some Don't and some do. I'm guessing there are corrupted, but play fine on my pc.

davilla Wrote:you would have to include some real info, I don't guess. xbmc.log or crashlog is it crashes.

davilla Wrote:Grrr, xbmc_crashlog is no help

next thing to do would be to launch xbmc under gdb and see if it can catch it, then gen a bt to see what was going on that caused the crash.

Jennero Wrote:I am new to the whole xbmc on atv. Do I need putty to access. Could you point me to the right guide and so I could post the info.

frumpy_uk Wrote:So do I understand correctly that the steps are
1. Open terminal
2. Run "ulimit -c unlimited" (You only need to do this if no core file is created automatically)
3. Run "xbmc"

I'm still not really having any luck with this.... First of all I quit xbmc from within xbmc. xbmc shutdown and the screen dropped to the text boot screen. Then I did the following :

Code:

xbmc@AppleTV:~$ ulimit -c unlimited
xbmc@AppleTV:~$ /usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin
Can't open display
ERROR: Unable to create application. Exiting
CRITSEC[0x8cbe504]: Trying to enter destroyed section.
CRITSEC[0x8cbe504]: Trying to leave destroyed section.

xbmc did not start. I still don't see a core dump anywhere.

dietcokefiend Wrote:Just wanted to say THANK YOU SO FREAKING MUCH to the OP. This has done what XBMC over OSX has never been able to do (play my 720p and 1080p media files consistently).

Just one question for now. Is the internal hard drive needed at this point in the process if I am using a USB stick to load the Ubuntu disc image? It doesnt appear to be mounted and for all I care it is just wasting power being plugged in. On the flip side could I just DD the image to my hard drive and use it as is?

Sam.Nazarko Wrote:@dietcokefiend: Thanks for the kind comments. Note that if you unplug the internal drive, the USB will no longer be /dev/sdb, and will be located at /dev/sda. You will therefore need to update com.apple.boot.plist on /dev/sdb1 and change the reference to /dev/sdb to /dev/sda for the mach kernel startup flags.