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My biggest remaining issue is that OE seems to ignore my advancedsettings.xml file.

What is the owner and group set to for that file? (ls -l advancedsettings.xml)

A permissions issue would certainly be the quickest solution and par for the course for me lately! Sadly ls -l for my advancedsettings.xml file shows as follows:

Code:

-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           424 Nov 29 21:56 advancedsettings.xml

That's the exact same as my sources and and guisettings xml files which seem to be working. The file was copied over from a windows box via SFTP and it had been copied down from another working Linux XBMC install. This file seemed to get read and was working just once before. XBMC was up, I tried to do something I cannot recall, and suddenly I was looking at a black X in the middle of my screen, the GUI had crashed. Before I could take any action it was back having apparently restarted. When it came back up the interface looked much more like my other machines. For instance under movies I had not only Files and Add-Ons but a selection for Music Videos like my other machines display. I'm honestly not sure where that comes from on those machines other than I have a source I've designated as Music Videos (I can recall MTV when it had music videos...). Puzzled I just ASSumed that for some reason it had read my advancedsettings file at last and that something goofy in my network had prevented it from reaching the server previously (it's on my network). alas it didn't stick.

Here's the contents of my advancedsettings.xml. I have verified the IP and that the server etc. is running.

Code:

<advancedsettings>

    <videodatabase>
        <type>mysql</type>
        <host>10.168.1.124</host>
        <port>3306</port>
        <user>xbmc</user>
        <pass>xbmc</pass>

    </videodatabase>

    <musicdatabase>
        <type>mysql</type>
        <host>10.168.1.124</host>
        <port>3306</port>
        <user>xbmc</user>
        <pass>xbmc</pass>

    </musicdatabase>


</advancedsettings>

For those that have multiple XBMC installs having an SQL server parked somewhere and setup like this is very nice. If you stop a vide on one machine it can be picked up from that same spot on another and Watched marks are shared. It's also possible to share Thumbnails and other resources via path substitution but I've not yet tried that.