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stevellion · (This post was last modified: 2014-03-20, 23:39 by stevellion.)

Hi All,

Something happened overnight - nothing I changed, but suddenly XMBC is constantly reloading. Looks like it's crashing when initializing the CEC Adapter.

On screen it says initialising CEC Adapter and then crashes.. leaves the x-window X on the screen for a moment, then restarts X.

Crashbin attached.
http://pastebin.com/pMT35LeG

I leave this HTPC on all the time?

un1versal · 2014-03-20, 13:58

mm I dont see any cec issues but I read cec needs to be updted to 2.2 or whateer newest version is in xbmc ppa.

I notice however that you have pulseaudio installed probably via ubuntu desktop as per default, and xbmc 12.3 does not work with pulseaudio installed, see PulseAudio (wiki) in any case or upgrade to xbmc v13 beta2

stevellion · 2014-03-20, 17:05

Thanks - will kill off pulse and see if that helps and check the cec version.

Can't upgrade to v13 yet as using shared DB with 4 other XBMC clients.

stevellion · 2014-03-20, 23:43

Ok - it's not CEC.. Tried removing the adapter alltogether and it no-longer shows any CEC info on screen, but still crashes every start.
Edited guisettings to put it in debug mode, so more info in the log now.
http://pastebin.com/VDprYjGv

Strangely - if i move the .xbmc config directory, it starts up Ok - so must be something in the config, but I don't know what.

Any suggestions?

stevellion · 2014-03-21, 00:10

Ok. Would love to know what the problem was in the end - but for now I've copied back in my settings & thumbs & DB settings and rebuilt the rest of the settings. Working now.

jmarshall · 2014-03-21, 00:13

I'm guessing this:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1658654

A Debug Log would confirm.

shepguessed · 2014-03-21, 01:39

i discovered something interesting. i noticed that if i would scroll through my installed repositories in xbmc, some of them would cause a crash. i removed these and now everything is good. Interestingly, i didnt have any addons installed in any of the repositories that were crashing. Coincidence? i dont know. Thought i would share.

xbmcwayist · 2014-03-21, 03:43

The issue that happened last night is a result of problems with the checking of the repos by XBMC that happens at startup. When it checks those repos that are housed on Github, which did something last night, the result is a crash. This seems to be the exact same issue most of the people who are complaining of crashes the past 24 hours are having.

Right now there is no solution other than to not use any of the repos that are housed on Github. An easy workaround is to move the repos to a new folder for now, and then move them back when the problem gets fixed.

To note, it seems the issue of crashing only occurs on Linux's version of XBMC, not Windows. Apparently, on the Windows build of XBMC, it doesn't crash, but will not update the repos or allow you to install anything.

Check this thread out for now:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=189722

stevellion · 2014-03-21, 14:43

Yep.. I'm convinced it was the same problem.... No lubetube for a while then...

krijeck · 2014-03-21, 20:44

(2014-03-21, 03:43)xbmcwayist Wrote: The issue that happened last night is a result of problems with the checking of the repos by XBMC that happens at startup. When it checks those repos that are housed on Github, which did something last night, the result is a crash. This seems to be the exact same issue most of the people who are complaining of crashes the past 24 hours are having.

Right now there is no solution other than to not use any of the repos that are housed on Github. An easy workaround is to move the repos to a new folder for now, and then move them back when the problem gets fixed.

To note, it seems the issue of crashing only occurs on Linux's version of XBMC, not Windows. Apparently, on the Windows build of XBMC, it doesn't crash, but will not update the repos or allow you to install anything.

Check this thread out for now:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=189722

I had the same issues on my Frodo.
I just created a new folder and renamed it to repos_old and then I moved all my repos into that folder ... as described in the link/thread you posted.
would be interesting when this issue is solved and we can copy or reinstall the repos back. Confused

drivesoslow · 2014-03-22, 00:10

FYI http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/15033