[Vikkevest]

Hello I have so far been running windows-based OS on my media center, xbmc worked smoothly on windows (however windows didnt). So I recently installed my favourite linux distro ubuntu (11.04) but now I can't install plugins on xbmc, when I select the install button it freezes, returns to plugin list, and freezes on 0% and then aborts the download.

I tried googling and searching for the error msgs from the log but no success. I use the xbmc package from the maverick repo (couldnt find any on natty)

Here is the log file on when I start xbmc, try to install the plugin listenLiveEU and then exit xbmc: http://pastebin.com/LVb7XdzK

Do anyone have a solution?

[Vikkevest]

Missed a thing, didnt know there was a debugging mode, here is a log for when I try the same thing as above but I enable debugging mode:

http://pastebin.com/XeeBXM5y

Also bump, I really want to install plugins, its one of the reasons I like xbmc, help plz!

[surfziggy]

I have the same issue. I was able to actually download the addons by getting them from the git repository, but even then they don't work.

From looking at your log CURL (the HTTP client software) is failing to get a reply from the server. I see that it requests curl to download

15:40:57 T:2946308976 M:952111104 DEBUG: FileCurl::Open(0x9f049b8) http://mirrors.xbmc.org/addons/dharma/pl...-0.4.3.zip
15:41:02 T:2888772464 M:951885824 WARNING: FillBuffer: curl failed with code 28

but it doesn't get a response.

Can I ask you a question, how is your HTPC connected to your LAN? Mine is connected via WLAN and I wondered late last night if this was the issue.

The other thing I was thinking, is if there is some network set up in XBMC that I haven't configured.

[surfziggy]

BTW, I'm also running Ubuntu 11.04

H/W is Zacate/E350 Gigabyte
Build is this one:

sudo apt-get install git
git clone https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc.git
cd xbmc
git checkout 10.1-Dharma

[giftie]

Missed a thing, didnt know there was a debugging mode, here is a log for when I try the same thing as above but I enable debugging mode:

http://pastebin.com/XeeBXM5y

Also bump, I really want to install plugins, its one of the reasons I like xbmc, help plz!

This looks like XBMC can not connect to the internet. Any calls to the Internet seem to fail. Not sure why though..

[darkscout]

Same problem here. The problem is gettin @#*( annoying.
Scraping fails. Updates fail. Plugin install screen locks up. I get constantly nagged about "Aww honey. I can't connect to the intarwebs!"

Is it IPv6?
Is it some weird routing issue?

Everything else in linux land works just fine. It's only the XBMC and that damn curl code.

[Vikkevest]

Its really wierd cause scraping from http://thetvdb.com/ works perfectly but not from http://www.themoviedb.org/ and I can't download plugins.

Since windows downloaded scrapings and plugins perfectly (on the same computer) I assumed there was nothing wrong with my connection. It connects to a switch which connects to a router. There is nothing weird about it. Maybe I should try another distro.

BTW, I'm also running Ubuntu 11.04

H/W is Zacate/E350 Gigabyte
Build is this one:

sudo apt-get install git
git clone https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc.git
cd xbmc
git checkout 10.1-Dharma

Gonna try this now

[Vikkevest]

Okay so it took me like 2 hours to compile but atlast I managed to install it, but then I got the little popupwindow saying
"Error XBMC needs hardware accelerated OpenGL rendering. Install an appropirate graphic driver".

So after reinstallation the gpu drivers and making sure I really got hardware acc I gave up and tried installing the live version from usb. Which I totally failed with too. Everything went fine until after the "Install system" step, after that when I select any other step after that, it tries to do the install system step again which is really wierd.

Not sure what im gonna do now, maybe ill just give up and run windows. This software don't seem cross-platform to me.

[darkscout]

"Error XBMC needs hardware accelerated OpenGL rendering. Install an appropirate graphic driver".

I wish you posted after this happened.

There's a bug in the in the launcher there sometimes it throws up this error for no reason.

What does 'glxinfo' output?

I got around it by launching xbmc.bin directly.