[zyanni]

I was on Linux Mint 17.3 (ROSA)64bit with Kodi 16.1 (Jarvis) installed.(All Kodi were installed with the command prompts on Kodi website.) Everything was working fine until the package manager in Linux Mint updated three packages with kodi. Now Kodi won't even start. I am assuming the update broke Kodi Jarvis and tried to update to Kodi 17, which I was trying to avoid.

Here is my Hardware:
Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5Ghz Quad Core Processor using integrated graphics
Gigabyte GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
Crucial Ballistix Tactical 16GB DDR3-1600 Memory
Plextor M6e 128Gb M.2-2280 Ssdrive

Here are the things I tried:
I tried to un-install the updated packages
I un-installed and Purged Kodi from system
I reinstalled kodi 17 from kodi website
I tried rolling back to the earlier kodi 16 as per the command prompts on the kodi website but looks like it can't find my older version since I uninstalled and purged early on in this process.

I looked at packages that is now installed and appears to be same as in the Software manager of Linux Mint 17.
I have the crash log from the first time kodi crashed and also from the last time it crashed after being reinstalled. There are many crash logs in between the different attempts at reinstalling and starting, but they look the same.

Here are the first and last crash logs:
http://pastebin.com/EGPEZm4e

http://pastebin.com/DsYYgeVs


Is there another way to simply install Kodi Jarvis again
That is all I really want.

Anyone else having this problem?
Thanks John

[ironic_monkey]

nuke ~/.kodi/userdata/Database/Addons27.db

[Martijn]

Would be nice if we could actually get a broken Addons database to see why it breaks

[zyanni]

nuke ~/.kodi/userdata/Database/Addons27.db

Ok so all I have to type in the terminal is :

~/.kodi/userdata/Database/Addons27.db

Is that correct? Sorry for being a noob in all this!
I will try and see what happens..

Thanks

[zyanni]

I tried that and this is what I got:

john@john-Z97MX-Gaming-5 ~ $ ~/.kodi/userdata/Database/Addons27.db
bash: /home/john/.kodi/userdata/Database/Addons27.db: Permission denied

I also looked around for a kodi folder ...
went to home/user/share/kodi/addons but there was no addons27.db file anywhere that I could see...is the kodi folder in the wrong place? I don't understand...

[ironic_monkey]

no, you aren't going to execute the database, you are going to delete it.

Code:

rm ~/.kodi/userdata/Database/Addons27.db

[zyanni]

YaY!!!After a reboot That Did it!!!!
Kodi 17 started and even migrated all my addons and kept my settings..(thought I lost everything when I purged 16)
The confluence 7 icons was the only setting that didn't carry over.
I hope I can get used to the different layout!!!
Thanks again for your help!!!!

[zyanni]

All is working fine now, and even got back the familiar confluence skin but,
With all the deleting, purging, etc...How can I tell if Kodi is set to the official PPA (ppa:team-xbmc/ppa) on the website?
I noticed that the Build is: Kodi 17.0 Git:20170210-nogitfound
Compiled: Feb 10 2017
Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS (kernel:linux 3.13.0-100 generic

That nogitfound sounds ominous..

[wsnipex]

that build is correct, v17 final, so you're good

you ccan double check with apt policy kodi

[zyanni]

Thanks, that's a relief!
What do you mean by double checking with... apt policy kodi?