I updated to the latest Kodi release (Krypton) today and began having issues right away. I had the VAAPI issue (blank picture but working sound) which I solved by the help of this forum, but after that another problem emerged: when I watch a film entire Kodi freezes (I have to kill the process in System Monitor). The freezes happens randomly. Sometimes it can go 1 minute in to the film, sometimes it can take 20 min without me doing anything besides watching a film.
What to do?
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Skin: Confluence
Intel Nuc D34010WYKH
Intel® Core™ i3-4010U CPU @ 1.70GHz × 4
64-bit
https://paste.ubuntu.com/24019496/
try disabling UPNP and/or avahi
^ I don't have UPNP enabled (I think).
Settings > Services > UPnP > 'allow remote control via UPNP' is not checked, should there be a UPNP enable/disable option?
I don't know what or where avahi is.
May I also ask why you thought of these two settings as a solution to my problem?
PS. I've also changed back to the default skin and tried to deactivate some of my addons, but no luck.
can you post: dmesg | pastebinit
after the freeze? Or is the whole machine hung?
As I wrote in my OP, Kodi freezes so I have to kill the process in System Monitor. So no, the entire machine (computer) doesn't freeze; only Kodi freezes.
http://paste.ubuntu.com/24027742/
^Btw, that log isn't right after a freeze (it's 6 hours after), I don't know if that was specifically what you wanted? The freeze happens randomly so I can try to reproduce a freeze and upload a new log later if that would help?
The log above is from a kodi startup - that's why I am confused ...
You mean
https://paste.ubuntu.com/24019496/ (the first log) is from a Kodi startup?
Can it have anything to do that I kill the process (it abruptly and with warning ends the process) via System monitor? Meaning that it doesn't get a chance to log anything? Cause I did that first log right after Kodi crashed.
This is the warning that comes up in System monitor when you try to kill a process:
Killing a process may destroy data, break the session or introduce a security risk. Only unresponsive processes should be killed.
Quote:.239 T:139714120107776 WARNING: CRenderManager::WaitForBuffer - timeout waiting for buffer
13:14:37.593 T:139714128500480 WARNING: Previous line repeats 2 times.
13:14:37.593 T:139714128500480 NOTICE: CVideoPlayerAudio:
rocess - stream stalled
13:14:38.104 T:139714120107776 NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::GetFormat - Creating VDPAU(1920x800)
13:14:38.104 T:139714120107776 NOTICE: VDPAU::Open: required extension GL_NV_vdpau_interop not found
13:14:38.104 T:139714120107776 NOTICE: (VDPAU) Close
13:14:38.105 T:139713662416640 NOTICE: COutput::OnStartup: Output Thread created
13:14:40.105 T:139714120107776 ERROR: VAAPI::ConfigVAAPI - failed to init output
Disable VDPAU.
Provide:
vainfo | pastebinit
So I disabled VDPAU and Kodi froze again several times yesterday. Was this action supposed to have fixed this?
What do I do now? What has gone wrong? Kodi worked just fine until this last update which I did not seek out (it was an automatic update).
Can I just uninstall this new Kodi and revert back to the old one?
Post a real
Debug Log with VDPAU disabled, please.
Here's a new log:
https://paste.ubuntu.com/24059532/
An observation that might be of interest:
I may be imagining things, but I'm starting to believe that Kodi freezes because of me turning up/down the volume via the volume button on my keyboard when a film is running. This is also aligned with the fact that Kodi doesn't terminate via System Monitor when I terminate the "Kodi" and "Kodi.bin" processors; I must also terminate the "pulseaudio" process for Kodi to terminate (note that Kodi doesn't terminate if I terminate the mentioned processors in reversed order).