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2016-12-20, 21:16
(This post was last modified: 2016-12-20, 21:17 by Mr Bill E-B.)
Mine was unableing USTV now which I can't even use here in Canada as it ask for a U S address. I use Kodi only on an android TV box so I have learned alot like going to file manager and deleteing Temp files associated with Kodi as these files fill up your memory, thus making Kodi inoperable such as going to an addon and it tells me not enough memory. I so wish there was a manual like 1 2 3 or A B C for us old school guys. Some of the stuff i read here to resolve issues makes me feel I need a doctorate in rocket science. Just sayin.
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I am having the same issue and not using the USTVNow addon. Kodi more and more frequently freezes when I exit it, and now it CANNOT be killed, just spinning there forever taking 150% CPU. Alt-f4 does nothing, "killall kodi" does nothing, even "killall -9 kodi" does nothing. I'm running Ubuntu, so might be a different issue than the rest of the thread. The only workaround is to restart the computer, or try to log out then back in. If I restart Kodi after such a freeze, I notice it reset all settings to default and I have to search forever to set back the language to french, disable subtitles, re-enable S/PDIF passthrough. Kodi is the only usable software I found on Ubuntu to listen to video files and music. Other software tools just suck and don't support all files. Before XBMC/Kodi, I had to switch between MPlayer, VLC and try many many times, each time I was trying to view a movie. All alternatives are dedicated devices (e.g., Chromecast, HDMI key running Windows, Raspberry Pi) with just that stupid HDMI output as audio and my stupid A/V receiver DOESN'T have an HDMI input. I just cannot trade my HTPC for a standalone solution because of that.
I checked many times and cannot find any way to attach a log file to this reply. But the log is mainly repeating the same information over and over again and is near to useless.
While frozen, Kodi seems to never stop eating disk space. My home partition is full and I tried since half an hour to remove stuff. As soon as I free up space, Kodi is taking it and the drive becomes full again. Now my Firefox is corrupt, refuses to start because I tried removing an old directory in .mozilla. My Google Chrome is non-responding (I'm posting from another computer) and Kodi continues to try filling the home drive, although the .kodi directory just has around 700M of space and the partition has a 72G size.
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Of course killing any program is bad, but the poster was complaining that killall didn't work, he was killing the wrong process. If kodi is not closing properly and eating diskspace killing is probably the only solution.
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2017-11-19, 21:39
(This post was last modified: 2017-11-19, 21:41 by ausdave555.)
Hi Guys and girls, I'm no expert but I noticed my Kodi was freezing only when I had an internet connection.
After reading around I didn't find any fixes. As a guess I took the RssFeeds.xml file out of my userdata folder (as it contains rss feeds which as assuming are getting refreshed)
Problem is now gone. I am assuming causation.
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Still same issues popping up. What a necro huh?
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Kodi politely waits for handshakes or add-ons to released information or return processes. When badly coded add-ons include dead URL links or the system looking for a network response that is turned off, Kodi is going to hang. Try turning off exploratory network services, rss or any service that will hold up the exit. Failing that post a new message with your issue, along with minor description and include a proper debug log URL that has been pasted to a public pastebin with the logging turned on.
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The very same problem on the latest version of Kodi which was installed in febuary 2019,so it is new.
A NY KIND OF HELP WOULD be appreciated.
