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Hey guys,

I recently switched from Windows to Ubuntu using Kodi and for some time now I am facing freezes while watching movies/TV shows. When the freeze occurs, the image is still and the audio keeps looping until I hard reset the htpc (I assume that might be a Kernel Panic?). This has been happening for some days now.

For debug-purpose I just enabled the debug logger and started an episode of Family Guy (where I first encountered the problem) - will edit this post as soon as the problem occurs again. Here are my specs (as asked in the HOW-TO post thread Smile ):


Software:

- Ubuntu 16.04 (updated 20/12/2016).
- Kodi Krypton Beta 7 (20/12/2016)
- Arctic Zephyr skin

Hardware:

- ASRock Q1900-ITX Mainboard
- Corsair CP-9020052-EU VS Series (ATX 2.3, 350 Watt)
- Kingston KHX1600C9D3B1/4G 4GB RAM
- SanDisk SSD 128GB Sata III 2,5 Zoll SSD (OS only)

Video:
- The videos I played back recently with the freezes occuring were x264 in .mkv containers. But it could not be traced back to a specific file as I watched some episodes several times and the freeze did not occur every time.

Terminal outputs:
Code:
uname -m:
x86_64

kodi -v:
17.0-BETA7 Git:20161219-nogitfound Media Center Kodi
Copyright (C) 2005-2013 Team Kodi - http://kodi.tv

Are there any known bugs regarding my constellation of Intel HW and Kodi? Sad I was so happy after switching to Ubuntu... I really hope I will somehow manage to fix the issue and enjoy Kodi for the next decades. Smile Just tell me what information is missing in case I forgot something. Will immediately provide that.

Thanks in advance.
Known. Please use Forum search. Your cpu is the Problem, see: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109051
I believe I have the same problem with an AMD cpu (A10-5745M APU) but couldn't find any workaround
Nope. Not possible. At least not the same reason. open your own thread with your own logs. For the op's bug a workaround exists.
(2016-12-25, 16:45)fritsch Wrote: [ -> ]Known. Please use Forum search. Your cpu is the Problem, see: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109051

Thank you. I've set it to C1 in Bios and will report back.
(2016-12-26, 08:36)fritsch Wrote: [ -> ]Nope. Not possible. At least not the same reason. open your own thread with your own logs. For the op's bug a workaround exists.

I did http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=301946