XBMC will not start
#1
I am using a DELL Inspiron 6000 which uses an Intel Pentium M processor at 1.86 Mhz and the Intel 915GM integrated video chip.

The OS is Ubuntu 9.04 w/ Gnome desktop and kernel 2.6.28-15.

I installed XBMC for Linux using these directions;
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=HOW-TO_insta...Step_Guide
and find that XBMC just won't start. I get the splash screen but after that XBMC just disappears without explanation.

The output of my debug log is as follows;
http://pastebin.ca/1569354

XBMC for Windows seems to work fine on the same machine although it is sluggish and uses 100% CPU.

Any suggestions why it won't run?
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#2
Try to type the following in a shell:

LC_ALL="C" xbmc

maybe you need to add "sudo" at first.

If you like to start xbmc automatic you'll need a little shell-script in your autostart-folder.

Please apologize my bad english.

Regards

Oliver
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#3
I tried what you said but it did not help. In fact the result was the same as previous, splash screen then nothing.

I should note that the XBMC Live CD downloaded yesterday worked fine. However, I'd like it to run from the hard drive.

Any other idea why XBMC won't finish loading?
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#4
Same here on my system (Asus A7N8X-X, AMD Barton 2800+, MSI GForce 6800 GT-AGP, 1.5Gb RAM). I updated very recently (as i used to do from the svn repos) and since then, I get the splash screen and XBMC quits immediately. Here's my crashlog :

http://pastebin.com/m3070cacf

I was thinking about a configuration/skin problem, so I deleted my "~/.xbmc" folder, but the problem remains the same.

This part seems interesting in the stack trace :

# Thread 1 (process 4507):
#0 0xb7f09430 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1 0xb6c6a6d0 in raise () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#2 0xb6c6c098 in abort () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#3 0x082bb586 in CApplication::FatalErrorHandler ()
#4 0x082cbeba in CApplication::Create ()
#5 0x08531f49 in main ()

But I don't understand a bit of it. Does anibody know what it means ?
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#5
browny Wrote:http://pastebin.com/m3070cacf
The last line in your crashlog is complaining about an unsuitable skin.

Try moving the /usr/share/xbmc/skin/PM3.HD to another location and try putting another skin in there, like Mediastream or another SVN based skin. If there's a way to launch xbmc with a different skin via the command line, that's preferable, but i'm too lazy to search.
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#6
You need to export LC_ALL="C" in the SAME terminal you execute XBMC from. It may be easier to modify the "xbmc" launcher script to do this for you. Do a "which xbmc" to figure out where it is on your system.
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#7
pseudini Wrote:The last line in your crashlog is complaining about an unsuitable skin.

Try moving the /usr/share/xbmc/skin/PM3.HD to another location and try putting another skin in there, like Mediastream or another SVN based skin. If there's a way to launch xbmc with a different skin via the command line, that's preferable, but i'm too lazy to search.

I tried that by modifying the guisettings.xml file but it didn't work. The SVN build is 22528.
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#8
browny Wrote:I tried that by modifying the guisettings.xml file but it didn't work. The SVN build is 22528.

What skin did you try to set in it's place?

Also, have you read any threads of 22528 being run successfully? I know the devs said stay away from the SVN for a while because it was likely to have some breakage. Not sure if that effects the SVN repository...

I stopped updating from the SVN a couple weeks ago when audio passthru broke.
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