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- Antipode - 2011-11-30

PS: using NVIDIA proprietary driver 290.10 (x86_64).

- Antipode - 2011-12-01

Antipode Wrote:I had the same problem as described above on my AsRock ION/NVIDIA running 11.10 with pre-Eden nightly builds. It appears that adding "nomodeset" to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT= directive in /etc/default/grub solved the issue. I'd be keen to hear if others find this solution to work as well.

Unfortunately this solution didn't last long - rolling back my NVIDIA driver to 280.13 seems to work better to get rid of the random crashes.

- xbmc17 - 2011-12-01

Random crashes for me as well, always xbmc.bin seg faults referencing the video driver. Also a few weeks for me, starting with Nvidia 285.* drivers. Now running 290.*, same issues.

- Duduke - 2011-12-01

Any quick way to roll back to 280.13?
(I'm using Ubuntu Natty 10.11)

- FernetMenta - 2011-12-01

I have scanned the provided log files but was not able to find a common pattern. Can you give me a description of the problem and how it shows and of course more logs.

- Duduke - 2011-12-01

at random intervals:
Exiting the ScreenSaver.
When a movie ends.
During LiveTV (TVHeadEnd x264 stream).
During SD XviD.

Strangely, I don't recall seeing that during an x264 (VDPAU).

I'm Running:
ASROCK ION 330
Ubuntu Natty
4GB RAM, 512MB to NVIDIA
NVidia 290.10
XBMC Nightlies

- FernetMenta - 2011-12-01

Quote:Strangely, I don't recall seeing that during an x264 (VDPAU).

Can you elaborate on this, what does that mean?

- xbmc17 - 2011-12-02

FernetMenta Wrote:I have scanned the provided log files but was not able to find a common pattern. Can you give me a description of the problem and how it shows and of course more logs.

You can't see a common pattern? I didn't post mine because my crash is the same as all the others that were posted:

Core was generated by `/usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0 0xb5a65cd6 in ?? ()
from /usr/lib/nvidia-current/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.290.10

I'm not at home but will post the full log file when I am.

- FernetMenta - 2011-12-02

Well, I see that it crashes somewhere in nvidia-tls but this is not much. It seems to crash in different use cases and this makes it hard to narrow down this problem. Check out this thead: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/497502
Those folks seem to have the same problem.

- xbmc17 - 2011-12-03

I wonder which media enter they're using Wink I've been using VLC since XBMC has been unstable for me and no crashes.

- Zxurian - 2011-12-03

here are 3, just within the hour and a half of the start of 2011-12-03

http://pastebin.com/LecCir6Q
http://pastebin.com/5T4hSzq9
http://pastebin.com/amYJfg22

if I can provide any additional log information, let me know.
as with others, the poitn of crashing is random, but has been seen in the following cases
browsing movies
browsing tv shows
15m into a 30m tv show
10m into a 2h movie
1:30 into a 2h movie
stopping a movie at the end
stopping a tv show at the end

but at the same time, I can also fully watch multiple tv shows / a full move without it crashing, so I'm tempted to agree with others that it may be the nVidia drivers, just wish we knew more what was causing it and if it was anything specific that xbmc is doing to trigger it.

- xbmc17 - 2011-12-03

Zxurian Wrote:here are 3, just within the hour and a half of the start of 2011-12-03

http://pastebin.com/LecCir6Q
http://pastebin.com/5T4hSzq9
http://pastebin.com/amYJfg22

if I can provide any additional log information, let me know.
as with others, the poitn of crashing is random, but has been seen in the following cases
browsing movies
browsing tv shows
15m into a 30m tv show
10m into a 2h movie
1:30 into a 2h movie
stopping a movie at the end
stopping a tv show at the end

but at the same time, I can also fully watch multiple tv shows / a full move without it crashing, so I'm tempted to agree with others that it may be the nVidia drivers, just wish we knew more what was causing it and if it was anything specific that xbmc is doing to trigger it.

I'd have to say it's something specific XBMC is doing because I run it on a full Ubuntu install and use my system for lots of other things including VLC and nothing else crashes. I've downgraded my Nvidia drivers to see if it goes away.

- FernetMenta - 2011-12-03

Does anybody who knows how to compile from source wants to try some patches? This is a first guess, don't blame me if it does not change anything Smile
https://github.com/FernetMenta/xbmc/tree/mainline

Make sure to use branch mainline.

- Duduke - 2011-12-04

I have purged ubuntu-x-swat and have reverted to NVidia 270 (from ubuntu main sources).

Now testing...

- Duduke - 2011-12-04

Guys, I have a hunch it has something to do with the new VA API setting under Settings -> Video -> Playback.

I think that this is causing the crashes.

I have reverted to 270 and haven't had a crash yet...