I installed XBMC fine on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy the first time. I used the SVN version. It ran fine the first few times but for some reason it stopped working. It seemed to coincide with one time I pressed Alt+F1 or something to change to desktop 1 (at least that's what I thought it did). Instead, it turned off the GUI for Ubuntu and was just in a black and white terminal. I rebooted and went back into ubuntu and ran XBMC and it'd just shut down within a second of starting up. I don't even get to see the menu, just a flash of black screen. I can't figure it out. I'm somewhat of a Linux newbie, so it's a bit frustrating. I tried uninstalling the package and reinstalling it but I keep having the same problem.
dbldown768: ya, you most likely have a crappy video card that is not supported:
18:11:08 T:3067623264 M: 7385088 ERROR: GLX Error: No compatible framebuffers found
yeah that was my guess... i think the pc is slower than the original xbox. I just wanted to learn how to compile and setup everything before I try it on something better. thanks for looking though.
althekiller Wrote:http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=34655
Sorry. Here's the relevant information. I tried getting the backtrace but running xbmc from the terminal just caused my screen to go back so I lost all the info I already got before that so this is my second time typing this out.
My computer specs are AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego core. I have 3GB of RAM and a NVIDIA 7800GT. The program ran fine the first few times so that shouldn't be the issue here.
I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy which is up to date as of 8-25-08. My architecture is i686.
Here's the debug log:
http://pastebin.com/f29ffd583
I don't know the SVN number because I can't get into the program but I installed it through synaptic through the sources from this thread:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=33327
More specifically, I got it from this source:
deb
http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-svn/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src
http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-svn/ubuntu hardy main
I installed it a few days ago, worked fine, then started having problems, then uninstalled it and reinstalled it yesterday and still having problems.
Here's the SVN number. I got it from the debug log.
SVN:14725
I don't know how to make a core file, though.
Looks like it doesn't even go back to the desktop anymore. When I run XBMC, it just goes to a black screen. I don't know how to get out of it so I restart the computer. I'm still new to linux, so I don't know how to force quit with just the keyboard, but alt+f4 doesn't work. Ctrl+Alt+Del doesn't bring up the shutdown menu either.
Please update to alpha4 and repost log before continuing. The core file will be generated when XBMC crashes (assuming the binary was compiled w/ debug enabled), you'll need to run "xbmc" in a terminal and it will be in w/e your working directory (see the link I posted and read it more carefully).
althekiller Wrote:Please update to alpha4 and repost log before continuing. The core file will be generated when XBMC crashes (assuming the binary was compiled w/ debug enabled), you'll need to run "xbmc" in a terminal and it will be in w/e your working directory (see the link I posted and read it more carefully).
Doesn't that only work if the program crashes to the desktop or terminal? I'm just getting a black screen and I need to reboot to get back to the desktop. It's like it's crashing ubuntu entirely.
You're using the SVN PPA, it has been disabled until Atlantis is released. You need to use the Hardy url's. Yes, they're on the same page...
Okay. Sorry for being a newbie at this. I updated to alpha4 using the hardy PPA. Now I'm having the problem where I start the program and it crashes again (it doesn't get stuck at a black screen). I'm trying to output a core file but I don't understand the directions here:
Run "gdb /path/to/xbmc.bin /path/to/core" (xbmc.bin path is in the debug log (see above), core file should be in the current directory (may have the process ID number appended))
I don't know where the core file directory is. "Current folder" isn't descriptive enough. This is what I have though.
gdb /usr/share/xbmc/xbmc.bin
I don't know what to put after that.
Another problem is coming up, though. It happened before. When I load XBMC and it crashes, all my windows in ubuntu lose their bar at the top (where the title of the program and exit icons are). I can't move my windows anymore, either. It's quite annoying.
Hello Ice blue,
Can you confirm that you use version 8.10a4-hardy2 ?
This version normally depends on apport.
Apport is a tool on Ubuntu that will extract the stacktrace from the core dump for you automagicaly when a crash happens. It will also ask you if you want to report a bug to Launchpad XBMC project. For the moment, it can't detect your xbmc logfile unless you start yourself the reporting tool.
Code:
/usr/share/apport/apport-gtk -c /var/crash/_usr_share_xbmc_xbmc.bin*
So you should add your logfile in the bug report while filling it in.
I checked the installed version in synaptic and it definitely says 8.10a4-hardy2.
I tried typing in that command to my terminal and it popped up a window titled "Invalid Problem Report" with the text: This problem report is damaged and cannot be processed. Here's my new logfile:
http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/40866/
I don't really know what else to do.