[warrior]

Hi,

im running 9.11 Live from USB Stick (Not installed but wrote the image to the usb stick and created a permanent storage file (live-rw).

Now i have two major problems: When i chose Programs in the Main Menue (wanted to play with SVN Repo installer) the Screen turns Black. I can hit the back button on the remote and the Main menu Appears again. Rather strange behavior. In the Release Candidate the screen didnt drop black. Instead xbmc closed and the ubuntu login promt showed up (xbmc crashed i presume).

The Secon Problem is that the Scrapers dont work. I only Stream Movies over Network. But since XBMC uses a Database for Scraping informations i believed, that it doesnt need the movies locally nor it needs to be able to write to the network folders?

So maybe this are common problems but i didnt find anything via the forum search. If this posts lack information i will be glad to prvoide further informations.

Thanks upfront to anyone who is willing to help me

Regards.

[prae5]

Hi,
The Secon Problem is that the Scrapers dont work. I only Stream Movies over Network. But since XBMC uses a Database for Scraping informations i believed, that it doesnt need the movies locally nor it needs to be able to write to the network folders?

What specifically is your problem with the scrapers?

[warrior]

What specifically is your problem with the scrapers?

Well probably im to stupid but let me tell you what i do: I go to movies, chose a network share and hit the nfo key on my remote. It then asks me what type of content is in the Folder and what scraper to use. I then chose movies and a scraper and also played around with the options.

But then nothing happens when i save. No movie covers nor any movie informations. But to tell the truth i never used the scrapers before. Maybe im missing something and Scraper informations only work with certain skins or something like that. Is there a good detailed Manual on how the scrapers work?

Maybe i also need a proper folder (name) structure?

[prae5]

You only need to set the content on the top level share that has your content.

Plenty of info on how to set things up in the forums and wiki - have a look around.

http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Set_Content_(Video_Library)
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Video_Library

FOr setting up library you will need to use a sane folder structure or you will have problems.

[warrior]

I think the problem lies somewhere with the Live version:

Everytime i hit the nfo key over the same Network share again it seems to have forgotten the the content type. It doesnt stay on Movie. Im going to turn on debug information and look for something like xbmc beeing unable to write in the live image or something like that.

[prae5]

Sounds more like you haven't set things up correctly tbh.

There is no need to set content on a per movie level, also it sounds like you haven't actually scanned content into the library.

[warrior]

13:33:06 T:3078346640 M:1474285568 ERROR: DS: Failed to connect to the D-Bus session daemon: Empty address ''
13:33:06 T:3078346640 M:1474285568 NOTICE: starting zeroconf publishing
13:33:49 T:3078346640 M:1461252096 ERROR: SQLite: Some kind of disk I/O error occurred
Query: insert into path (idPath, strPath, strContent, strScraper) values (NULL,'smb://warrior/dump/movies/','','')
13:33:49 T:3078346640 M:1461727232 ERROR: AddPath unable to addpath (insert into path (idPath, strPath, strContent, strScraper) values (NULL,'smb://warrior/dump/movies/','',''))
13:33:49 T:3078346640 M:1461727232 ERROR: Create - Error creating /home/xbmc/.xbmc/temp/scrapers
13:33:49 T:3078346640 M:1461727232 ERROR: Create - Error creating special://temp/scrapers
13:33:49 T:3032853360 M:1461727232 ERROR: SQLite: Some kind of disk I/O error occurred
Query: update version set iCompressCount=1
13:33:49 T:3032853360 M:1461727232 ERROR: Compressing the database MyVideos34.db failed
13:33:49 T:3032853360 M:1461727232 NOTICE: My Videos: Scanning for video info using worker thread, operation took 00:00
13:35:45 T:3078346640 M:1457221632 ERROR: SQLite: Some kind of disk I/O error occurred
Query: insert into path (idPath, strPath, strContent, strScraper) values (NULL,'smb://warrior/dump/movies/',
'','')
13:35:45 T:3078346640 M:1457221632 ERROR: AddPath unable to addpath (insert into path (idPath, strPath, strContent, strScraper) values (NULL,'smb://warrior/dump/movies/','',''))
13:35:45 T:3078346640 M:1457221632 ERROR: Create - Error creating /home/xbmc/.xbmc/temp/scrapers
13:35:45 T:3078346640 M:1457221632 ERROR: Create - Error creating special://temp/scrapers
13:35:45 T:3032853360 M:1457221632 ERROR: SQLite: Some kind of disk I/O error occurred
Query: update version set iCompressCount=1
13:35:45 T:3032853360 M:1457221632 ERROR: Compressing the database MyVideos34.db failed
13:35:45 T:3032853360 M:1457221632 NOTICE: My Videos: Scanning for video info using worker thread, operation took 00:00
13:36:32 T:3078346640 M:1457221632 NOTICE: Samba is idle. Closing the remaining connections
13:49:13 T:3078346640 M:1451012096 ERROR: PulseAudio: Waited for the Context but it failed
13:49:13 T:3078346640 M:1451012096 ERROR: PulseAudio: Failed to create context
13:49:13 T:3078346640 M:1451012096 ERROR: PulseAudio: Waited for the Context but it failed
13:49:13 T:3078346640 M:1451012096 ERROR: PulseAudio: Failed to create context

So thats what debuging gives me. So i guess there is some problem that the scraper doesnt write in the permananent storage file but rather tries to write in the image.

I created the live usb stick as described in this prost: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...t=live+usb
Maybe someone could tell me how xbmc 9.11 loads the live-rw file into its filesystem?

df shows me:

/dev/loop2 3339208 711424 2458160 23% /live/cow

so i guess thats the mountpoint where the file is mounted to. But how does xbmc store its permanent files there? Are there static links in the image that point to /live/cow?

Or would it be much better to use the setup routine from the live cd? I thought writing the cd image to the usb stick would safe some ios to the usb stick which would prolong its life but considering th eprices of usb sticks it wouldn't be such a big problem to buy a new stick every year or so...

[prae5]

looks like it isn't mounting the persistent storage file correctly, perhaps it wasn't created correctly.

As you have only just installed, i would start again from scratch as this shouldn't happen.

[warrior]

but it stores all my settings so it should use the persistant storragen.

and as this is linux and no blackbox there should be a simple way to see where the problem lies instead of always rebooting and trying it from scratch...

[prae5]

Earlier you said it wasn't storing the settings though...

The reality is, a live install takes about 15mins tops - trouble shooting will take a factor of times more than that.

Now if it still doesn't work after that, then i'll happily look at in it more detail - but this will potentially be your quickest solution.