2011-04-30, 01:08
flexgrip Wrote:Hello,
I have had my foxconn for a long time. I've run different variations in Ubuntu, opensuse, xbmcfreak, and xbmc. 32bit or 64bit.
My problem is, with any of those combinations, I get freezing in xbmc. Usually it happens in the menus. I will be scrolling through the list of TV shows or something, and the screen will get artifacts and the whole thing freezes up.
I then will SSH into it and notice that xbmc is running at 100% cpu. If I kill xbmc and restart it it will get to the menu and instantly freeze again. This time without any keyboard input.
In the logs, right before the freeze, I see some error about dbus. Doesn't really say exactly what the error is though.
The only way I can get around any of this is to use upnp to connect to my network shares. If I connect to them via nfs, samba, http, or ssh, it freezes with the same dbus issue.
This happens in ALL variations of ubuntu. I've tried xbmc live, ubuntu core server + X + xbmc... 32bit/64bit everything! Now that I run upnp it is usable for now. But I am not really fond of upnp because I can't play any of the old iso's I have over upnp.
Anyone else have this problem? I would absolutely just love to figure this one out because I really like the size, noise, and playback on this thing. Really smooth and simple. I just hate this underlying issue where the wrong kind of network connections to my shares will cause it to lock up.
Try the OpenELEC version of XMBC, I have it on my nt330i, and while I have had it crash, it happens rarely. It is all pre built for you, you just need to put it on a USB stick and boot, then install it on your drive or another USB stick. By rare I mean maybe 1 once a week with heavy usage, and that is typicality a hang when I am trying to access a stream off the internet from something like the livestream addon, which I think must be some kind of bad data crashing a codec, but never in the way you outline. I am using SMB share for most of my content access, about 6TB worth, that if very solid.