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Hello.

I'm just installing Kodi for the first time, but cannot start it for some reason.

Here are some relevant informations:

[Error Message]

[System]
CPU: Intel I5 4690k
GPU: None
RAM: 16GB DDR3 1600MHz
Storage: 4TB on 2 7200rpm HDDs.
OS: Ubuntu server 16.04 64bits
Kodi Version: 17.3

[Logs]
Logs

After google searching for an answer, all I can find is to reinstall my nvidia drivers. Except I don't have a nvidia gpu in my server right now, and although I have a 970 laying somewhere, I don't want to increase my server's power consumption for nothing. mesa-utils and xserver-xorg-video-intel are installed and up-to-date.

I have no idea what's wrong. Please help!

Not sure what your planned 'use-case' is, but there is no headless/server version of Kodi possible, so at least some kind of GPU display will necessary. If you want to use a server, perhaps MiniDLNA is an option. Personally, I just use the NFS server part of Ubuntu to serve videos to Kodi clients.

Hello, and thanks for y[/b]our reply.

I'm indeed un a "headless" configuration, with a ubuntu server I remonte desktop into. I'm currently looking into media streaming options, and wanted to try kodi before setting on plex, which works perfectly out of the box. I read that kodi was extremely similar to Plex except being more powerful.

So there is no way to make a kodi server out of a server with only Intel integrated graphics? That's a bummer. I'll stay with Plex then.

Thanks for the help.

Kodi is not a server. Plex is.

If you want some more help, please install gdb so we get a crashlog with debug info.

Ah OK I get it. When I read about it, someone was asking why anyone would be using Plex over kodi as the former was most probably just a fork of the later, so I assumed they had similar capabilities. If that's not the case, then I can't use kodi as I just need a centralised media server capable of casting my media on different devices in and out of my network. Not the right tool .

Thanks again for the help.

Plex player was a fork of Kodi.

However plex server is (as I understand it) their own product.

Kodi does have some Upnp serving abilities, but I wouldn't bother.

Kodi doesn't even require a "media" server as such. It accesses files over a network (to your server for example[1]) and scrapes all the metadata into it's own database. Those databases are local to each Kodi instance, unless you centralise the database using mysql.

[1] this need be file serving only, not any sort of upnp or metadata.