[bobmarlone]

Hello, I am using Kodi on a Raspberry PI. I d tried to create a new profile, and start kodi on this new profile. When the rasberry restart, a have a sad smiley. I have this message on kodi logs :

08:34:59 568.784119 T:3024900656 ERROR: CSettings: unable to load settings from special://profile/guisettings.xml, creating new default settings
08:34:59 568.812561 T:3024900656 WARNING: Failed to save the default settings to special://profile/guisettings.xml
08:34:59 568.812927 T:3024900656 FATAL: unable to load settings
08:34:59 568.826355 T:3024900656 NOTICE: special://profile/ is mapped to:

I have'nt find on internet where the special are mapped to physical directory. Any help will be welcome.

[Thof]

Sad smiley? I guess you are using OSMC?

Did you put your system to read-only? I'm getting this problem after making my drive read-only...

[Thof]

For me the problem was ~/.kodi/userdata/guisettings.xml, somehow this wants read and write access for Kodi to start normally.

You could try to delete your entire userdata directory and reboot, Kodi should rebuild all files and start!