[Freso]

For the last couple of days, XBMC has frozen just after starting up. If I restart the computer, it will run once, and then lock up again and become completely unresponsive to input. It doesn't respond to `kill -15` either, but will shut down with `kill -2`.

64-bit ArchLinux, almost everything at latest package (not sure if the change was caused by a package update), XBMC installed from official repository (version 12.3-14). No Git revision is shown.

Here's debug log output for https://pastee.org/tzntb (No backtrace for now, but if the debug log does not provide any hint, I'll get around to making a backtrace ASAP. Right now, I'm going to bed.)

[fritsch]

You are missing libcec libs.

[Freso]

I've never had libcec libs.

Also, as it turns out, XBMC unfroze last night (the session that log is from) about 10 minutes after posting the above message (before I got around to sending a kill signal), so libcec (or lack thereof) has clearly not been the culprit. (I've had XBMC open for an hour a time or two over the last few days to see if it just needed to process something before becoming responsive, with no luck. No idea what's different this time. Ah well.)

Anyway. Seems to work again for now.

[fritsch]

You are missing them "clearly" anyways:

23:26:56 T:139965760591872 ERROR: Unable to load libcec.so.2, reason: libcec.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
23:26:56 T:139965760591872 ERROR: Initialise - failed to initialise bus cec

[Freso]

If libcec is a requirement to run XBMC, it should be added to the ArchLinux package's dependencies. I've filed a request to do this here: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/40201

In the meantime, I've "manually" installed libcec to get rid of that error. The freezing is back though. Here's a new log, with the DEBUG messages actually working: https://pastee.org/dxjm

[fritsch]

You won't like that, but ARCH also patches out ffmpeg and uses their own libs where possible. We cannot fix that here - as they want it that way.

If you want a vanilla xbmc, please build it from source. Gotham is near to release, so it's time migrating.