[wsnipex]

Hi guys and thanks for a fantastic job so far. I finally decided to remove my nVidia card and try this setup with the onboard gfx (I'm on a ASUS E35M1-M mobo). I have followed the guidelines in this thread and it works, sort of but I experience some problems (both with the initial setup yesterday and the new binaries today after an apt-get update).

First of all, is there a python-simplejson dependency? I noticed some error messages in the log initially generated by the weather plugin. It was complaining about an simplejson import error. A "sudo apt-get install python-simplejson" took care of that problem.

The rest is a bit more problematic. It seems like xbmc always crash on boot and then another instance seems to get respawned. I guess this is what happens becuase it takes quite some time before the xbmc ui shows up after a reboot and there is always a new xbmc_crashlog-xxxxxxxx_xxxxxx.log in ~ and the content is the same as in ~/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.old.log. Some of the errors are also in the running instances ~/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.log, anyone got something similar in their log files? Error lines from the crashlog:

Code:

/home/xbmc# cat xbmc_crashlog-20111218_145406.log | grep ERROR
[color=Red]13:49:41 T:139836123625344   ERROR: GLX: Same window as before, refreshing context
13:49:42 T:139836123625344   ERROR: Keymapping error: no such action 'language' defined
13:49:42 T:139836123625344   ERROR: Unable to open audio mixer
13:49:42 T:139836123625344   ERROR: CZeroconfAvahi::addService(): failed to add service named:XBMC JSONRPC@$(HOSTNAME) type:_xbmc-jsonrpc._tcp port:8080. Error:Invalid Error Code :/ FIXME!
13:49:43 T:139835679405824   ERROR: SetThreadInfo: error Permission denied
14:19:44 T:139835687798528   ERROR: SetThreadInfo: error Permission denied
14:49:45 T:139835687798528   ERROR: SetThreadInfo: error Permission denied[/color]

can you try this please:
edit /etc/security/limits.conf
add following line at the end of the file:

Code:

xbmc             -       nice            -1

this should get rid of the Permission denied errors.

and thanks for reporting the missing python dependency.

about the crashes @boot. This probably has nothing to do with xvba, but its interesting and probably annoying nonetheless.
Maybe xbmc is being started too soon. Could you pastebin one of those crash logs?