My main system - Gotham Beta2 running under Linux Mint on Intel Nuc Haswell hooked up to my TV - suddenly developed problem:
XBMC would start to open, get by the Splash screen and before could select anything from the Home Screen Menus, the program just closes suddenly (within seconds of starting)
I tried update and re-install however already shows at latest revision and no changes made.
I tried several times and it did exactly same - I cannot get program to launch for long enough to get into it to do anything to see what is happening!
So I went to a Laptop that I use for configuration testing - SAME THING!
It has essentially same config - XBMC Gotham Beta2 running in Linux Mint - it too crashes almost immediately.
I have a third machine - this runs windows XP and Frodo12.3 - that one successfully launches.
What can possibly have happened to have the two Gotham machines have exact same issue where the program crashes as soon as is launched?
The laptop Gotham machine had XBMC working fine just a few hours ago - now it and the other machine crashing on XBMC start.
How can I recover?
On the testbed system I uninstalled xbmc (but did not remove all the folders etc) and re-installed - same thing.
How can I get a log if it is not turned on with the program running - can I do this from Terminal?
I don't know that is a Gotham thing per se (I don't believe!) - so maybe premature in posting here (Moderators please move if appropriate)
But something in the Gotham set-ups common to both have suddenly caused the issue
I have pretty much same add-ons in the Frodo set-up (maybe a few more)
I tried running an OpenElec 32bit Gotham 2 beta off a USB stick and it starts up with no problem on the test machine.
I found how to get the crash log and have uploaded
here
I guess this is the salient point:
Code:
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0 0xb5f6fae2 in gnutls_x509_crt_import () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgnutls.so.26
Any analysis that can point me to issue will be most appreciated!
Post script - I found this thread in the Linux section -
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=189722
Other than having automatic restart function, the behaviour of crashing with each re-start was at least mimicking what was was happening with mine.
Not too scientific, since I could not see indication of repo updates in my own crash log, but proceeded to at least clean up the repos I wasn't familiar with.
I actually removed most except for the main add-ons I use - just deleted the repos from the add-ons folder - this in my testing vehicle.
I got immediate success - the program now restarted without dropping out.
I repeated the process on my prime system, but this time a bit more systematically, deleting just one at a time
The very last of the repos I don't really use (I think I just got a bunch from Fusion to see what was in them) was one by VinnyDude - and when I deleted that it started up fine!!
Curiously when I download that to my Frodo system and looks to see what add-ons are there, it is empty!
So not sure what exactly going on there, but it seems to have cured the instant crashing.
Maybe someone knowledgeable can see if there is some clue in the crashlog.