Using Linux, Kodi / XBMC keeps crashing at startup
#1
I have a "Mirus" PC with a 2.66G processor, and 1GB RAM. I've installed many different versions of Linux on it. Every time I install Kodi or XBMC, the app crashes at start up. This is an older computer, originally came with Windows XP.

I click on the launcher, then it starts up with the usual intro screen, then shuts off and I'm back to the desktop.

I've installed Kodi with sudo commands from the WiKi website, and also from the Software Center built-in.

Anyone know what's wrong?
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#2
Your oldish gpu. But without a Debug Log no one can tell.
First decide what functions / features you expect from a system. Then decide for the hardware. Don't waste your money on crap.
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#3
(2016-08-04, 07:41)fritsch Wrote: Your oldish gpu. But without a Debug Log no one can tell.

Hi,

I'm not sure how to do this. I can't get Kodi to stay open, it crashes immediately after I start it. I'm supposed to get the debug log within Kodi, right?
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#4
Just post your kodi.log - it will tell us the GPU in use.
First decide what functions / features you expect from a system. Then decide for the hardware. Don't waste your money on crap.
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(2016-08-04, 20:28)fritsch Wrote: Just post your kodi.log - it will tell us the GPU in use.


11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: -----------------------------------------------------------------------
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: Starting XBMC from Debian (12.3 Debian package version:2:12.3+dfsg1-3ubuntu1), Platform: Linux (Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS, 3.16.0-77-generic i686). Built on Jan 7 2014
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: special://xbmc/ is mapped to: /usr/share/xbmc
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: special://xbmcbin/ is mapped to: /usr/lib/xbmc
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: special://masterprofile/ is mapped to: /home/mirus/.xbmc/userdata
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: special://home/ is mapped to: /home/mirus/.xbmc
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: special://temp/ is mapped to: /home/mirus/.xbmc/temp
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: The executable running is: /usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: Local hostname: mirus-Nobilis
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: Log File is located: /home/mirus/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.log
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: -----------------------------------------------------------------------
11:52:00 T:3007018816 ERROR: CAESinkOSS::EnumerateDevicesEx - Failed to open mixer: /dev/mixer
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: Found 1 Lists of Devices
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: Enumerated ALSA devices:
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: Device 1
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: m_deviceName : default
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: m_displayName : Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: m_displayNameExtra:
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: m_deviceType : AE_DEVTYPE_PCM
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: m_channels : FL,FR,BL,BR,FC,LFE,SL,SR,UNKNOWN1,UNKNOWN2,UNKNOWN3,UNKNOWN4,UNKNOWN5,UNKNOWN6,UNKNOWN7,UNKNOWN8
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: m_sampleRates : 5512,8000,11025,16000,22050,32000,44100,48000,64000,88200,96000,176400,192000
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: m_dataFormats : AE_FMT_FLOAT,AE_FMT_S32NE,AE_FMT_S16NE,AE_FMT_S16LE,AE_FMT_S16BE,AE_FMT_U8
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: Device 2
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: m_deviceName : pulse
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: m_displayName : PulseAudio Sound Server
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: m_displayNameExtra:
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: m_deviceType : AE_DEVTYPE_PCM
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: m_channels : FL,FR,BL,BR,FC,LFE,SL,SR,UNKNOWN1,UNKNOWN2,UNKNOWN3,UNKNOWN4,UNKNOWN5,UNKNOWN6,UNKNOWN7,UNKNOWN8
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: m_sampleRates : 5512,8000,11025,16000,22050,32000,44100,48000,64000,88200,96000,176400,192000
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: m_dataFormats : AE_FMT_FLOAT,AE_FMT_S32NE,AE_FMT_S16NE,AE_FMT_S16LE,AE_FMT_S16BE,AE_FMT_U8
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: Device 3
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: m_deviceName : @:CARD=ICH5,DEV=0
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: m_displayName : Intel ICH5
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: m_displayNameExtra: Intel ICH5
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: m_deviceType : AE_DEVTYPE_PCM
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: m_channels : FL,FR,BL,BR,FC,LFE
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: m_sampleRates : 48000
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: m_dataFormats : AE_FMT_S32NE,AE_FMT_S16NE,AE_FMT_S16LE
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: Device 4
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: m_deviceName : iec958:CARD=ICH5,DEV=0
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: m_displayName : Intel ICH5
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: m_displayNameExtra: Intel ICH5 - IEC958 S/PDIF
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: m_deviceType : AE_DEVTYPE_IEC958
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: m_channels : FL,FR
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: m_sampleRates : 48000
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: m_dataFormats : AE_FMT_S16NE,AE_FMT_S16LE
11:52:00 T:3007018816 NOTICE: load settings...
11:52:01 T:3007018816 NOTICE: special://profile/ is mapped to: special://masterprofile/
11:52:01 T:3007018816 NOTICE: loading special://masterprofile/guisettings.xml
11:52:01 T:3007018816 NOTICE: Getting hardware information now...
11:52:01 T:3007018816 NOTICE: Loading player core factory settings from special://xbmc/system/playercorefactory.xml.
11:52:01 T:3007018816 NOTICE: Loaded playercorefactory configuration
11:52:01 T:3007018816 NOTICE: Loading player core factory settings from special://masterprofile/playercorefactory.xml.
11:52:01 T:3007018816 NOTICE: special://masterprofile/playercorefactory.xml does not exist. Skipping.
11:52:01 T:3007018816 NOTICE: No settings file to load (special://xbmc/system/advancedsettings.xml)
11:52:01 T:3007018816 NOTICE: No settings file to load (special://masterprofile/advancedsettings.xml)
11:52:01 T:3007018816 NOTICE: Default DVD Player: dvdplayer
11:52:01 T:3007018816 NOTICE: Default Video Player: dvdplayer
11:52:01 T:3007018816 NOTICE: Default Audio Player: paplayer
11:52:01 T:3007018816 NOTICE: Disabled debug logging due to GUI setting. Level 0.
11:52:01 T:3007018816 NOTICE: Log level changed to 0
11:52:01 T:3007018816 NOTICE: Loading media sources from special://masterprofile/sources.xml
11:52:01 T:2994731840 NOTICE: Thread CSoftAE start, auto delete: false
11:52:01 T:3007018816 NOTICE: Running database version Addons15
11:52:02 T:2984246080 NOTICE: Thread XBMC Peripherals start, auto delete: false
11:52:02 T:3007018816 NOTICE: Setup SDL
11:52:02 T:3007018816 NOTICE: Checking resolution 16
11:52:03 T:3007018816 NOTICE: Using visual 0x21
11:52:03 T:3007018816 NOTICE: GL_VENDOR = Intel Open Source Technology Center
11:52:03 T:3007018816 NOTICE: GL_RENDERER = Mesa DRI Intel® 865G x86/MMX/SSE2
11:52:03 T:3007018816 NOTICE: GL_VERSION = 1.3 Mesa 10.1.3
11:52:03 T:3007018816 NOTICE: GL_SHADING_LANGUAGE_VERSION = 1.20
11:52:03 T:3007018816 NOTICE: GL_EXTENSIONS = GL_ARB_multisample GL_EXT_abgr GL_EXT_bgra GL_EXT_blend_color GL_EXT_blend_minmax GL_EXT_blend_subtract GL_EXT_copy_texture GL_EXT_polygon_offset GL_EXT_subtexture GL_EXT_texture_object GL_EXT_vertex_array GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array GL_EXT_texture GL_EXT_texture3D GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip GL_ARB_point_parameters GL_EXT_draw_range_elements GL_EXT_packed_pixels GL_EXT_point_parameters GL_EXT_rescale_normal GL_EXT_separate_specular_color GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp GL_SGIS_texture_lod GL_ARB_multitexture GL_IBM_multimode_draw_arrays GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat GL_3DFX_texture_compression_FXT1 GL_ARB_texture_cube_map GL_ARB_texture_env_add GL_ARB_transpose_matrix GL_EXT_blend_func_separate GL_EXT_fog_coord GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays GL_EXT_secondary_color GL_EXT_texture_env_add GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias GL_INGR_blend_func_separate GL_NV_blend_square GL_NV_light_max_exponent GL_NV_texgen_reflection GL_S3_s3tc GL_SUN_multi_draw_arrays GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp GL_ARB_texture_compression GL_EXT_framebuffer_object GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc GL_EXT_texture_env_combine GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3 GL_MESA_window_pos GL_NV_packed_depth_stencil GL_NV_texture_rectangle GL_ARB_texture_env_combine GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3 GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat GL_ARB_window_pos GL_EXT_texture_cube_map GL_APPLE_packed_pixels GL_APPLE_vertex_array_object GL_ARB_draw_buffers GL_ARB_shader_objects GL_ARB_vertex_program GL_ARB_vertex_shader GL_ATI_draw_buffers GL_EXT_stencil_wrap GL_MESA_pack_invert GL_MESA_ycbcr_texture GL_ARB_half_float_pixel GL_ARB_point_sprite GL_ARB_shading_language_100 GL_ARB_sync GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object GL_ATI_blend_equation_separate GL_EXT_blend_equation_separate GL_OES_read_format GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object GL_ARB_texture_rectangle GL_EXT_pixel_buffer_object GL_EXT_texture_compression_dxt1 GL_EXT_texture_rectangle GL_ARB_framebuffer_object GL_EXT_framebuffer_blit GL_EXT_packed_depth_stencil GL_APPLE_object_purgeable GL_ARB_vertex_array_object GL_EXT_gpu_program_parameters GL_OES_EGL_image GL_ARB_copy_buffer GL_ARB_map_buffer_range GL_EXT_separate_shader_objects GL_ARB_debug_output GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex GL_ARB_explicit_attrib_location GL_ARB_provoking_vertex GL_ARB_sampler_objects GL_EXT_provoking_vertex GL_ARB_get_program_binary GL_ARB_robustness GL_ANGLE_texture_compression_dxt3 GL_ANGLE_texture_compression_dxt5 GL_ARB_internalformat_query GL_ARB_map_buffer_alignment GL_ARB_texture_storage GL_AMD_shader_trinary_minmax GL_ARB_clear_buffer_object GL_ARB_invalidate_subdata GL_ARB_vertex_attrib_binding GL_KHR_debug
11:52:03 T:3007018816 ERROR: GLX: Same window as before, refreshing context
11:52:03 T:3007018816 ERROR: ResetRenderSystem() GL_MAX_TEXTURE_IMAGE_UNITS_ARB returned error 1280
11:52:04 T:3007018816 NOTICE: Running database version Addons15
11:52:04 T:3007018816 NOTICE: Running database version ViewModes4
11:52:04 T:3007018816 NOTICE: Running database version Textures13
11:52:04 T:3007018816 NOTICE: Running database version MyMusic32
11:52:04 T:3007018816 NOTICE: Running database version MyVideos75
11:52:04 T:3007018816 NOTICE: Running database version TV22
11:52:04 T:3007018816 NOTICE: Running database version Epg7
11:52:04 T:3007018816 NOTICE: start dvd mediatype detection
11:52:04 T:3007018816 NOTICE: initializing playlistplayer
11:52:04 T:3007018816 NOTICE: DONE initializing playlistplayer
11:52:04 T:2998098752 NOTICE: Thread CDetectDVDMedia start, auto delete: false
11:52:05 T:3007018816 NOTICE: initialize done
11:52:05 T:3007018816 NOTICE: Running the application...
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#6
Quote:11:52:03 T:3007018816 NOTICE: GL_RENDERER = Mesa DRI Intel® 865G x86/MMX/SSE2
11:52:03 T:3007018816 NOTICE: GL_VERSION = 1.3 Mesa 10.1.3
11:52:03 T:3007018816 NOTICE: GL_SHADING_LANGUAGE_VERSION = 1.20

^^ what I said.
First decide what functions / features you expect from a system. Then decide for the hardware. Don't waste your money on crap.
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#7
(2016-08-04, 21:28)fritsch Wrote:
Quote:11:52:03 T:3007018816 NOTICE: GL_RENDERER = Mesa DRI Intel® 865G x86/MMX/SSE2
11:52:03 T:3007018816 NOTICE: GL_VERSION = 1.3 Mesa 10.1.3
11:52:03 T:3007018816 NOTICE: GL_SHADING_LANGUAGE_VERSION = 1.20

^^ what I said.

So I won't be able to run it with the current hardware?
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#8
Your hardware is not current, but 10 years old. There are unsupported workarounds faking the gl version. Search for your GPU in this forum, please.
First decide what functions / features you expect from a system. Then decide for the hardware. Don't waste your money on crap.
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