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Hi there,

I compiled kodi like

git clone https://github.com/topfs2/xbmc.git kodi-helix-headless
cd kodi-helix-headless/
git checkout helix_headless
git clean -xfd
git reset --hard
git pull --rebase
./bootstrap
./configure
make
sudo checkinstall

Then I start it with

kodi --headless

The .kodi was created under /home/matthias/ . Then I connect via vpn/tun to server:8080 and I see "Music" and so on. No button to change something. When I click on "Profiles" and then Master user, Kodi crash with:

matthias@server:~$ kodi --headless
kodi.bin: /usr/include/boost/smart_ptr/shared_ptr.hpp:653: typename boost::detail:p_member_access<T>::type boost:hared_ptr<T>::operator->() const [with T = ADDON::CSkinInfo; typename boost::detail:p_member_access<T>::type = ADDON::CSkinInfo*]: Assertion `px != 0' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)
Crash report available at /home/matthias/kodi_crashlog-20150625_123457.log

Pastebin

Next problem, I want to run it as user kodi from start. So I put a script in /etc/init.d/ named kodi

Code:

#! /bin/sh

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          kodi
# Required-Start:    $all
# Required-Stop:     $all
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: starts instance of Kodi
# Description:       starts instance of Kodi using start-stop-daemon and xinit
### END INIT INFO

############### EDIT ME ##################

# path to xinit exec
DAEMON=/usr/bin/xinit

# startup args
#DAEMON_OPTS=" /usr/local/bin/kodi-standalone -- :0"
DAEMON_OPTS=" /usr/local/bin/kodi --headless"

# script name
NAME=kodi

# app name
DESC=Kodi

# user
RUN_AS=kodi

# Path of the PID file
PID_FILE=/var/run/kodi.pid

############### END EDIT ME ##################

test -x $DAEMON || exit 0

set -e

case "$1" in
  start)
        echo "Starting $DESC"
        start-stop-daemon --start -c $RUN_AS --background --pidfile $PID_FILE  --make-pidfile --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS
        ;;
  stop)
        echo "Stopping $DESC"
        start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile $PID_FILE
        ;;

  restart|force-reload)
        echo "Restarting $DESC"
        start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile $PID_FILE
        sleep 5
        start-stop-daemon --start -c $RUN_AS --background --pidfile $PID_FILE  --make-pidfile --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS
        ;;
  *)
        N=/etc/init.d/$NAME
        echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
        exit 1
        ;;
esac

exit 0

User kodi is ther as system user

kodi:x:118:65534::/home/.kodi:/bin/false

When I do

sudo /etc/init.d/kodi start
Starting Kodi
sudo /etc/init.d/kodi stop
Stopping Kodi

all looks fine, but if I do

sudo /etc/init.d/kodi start

connect to server:8080 (no connection establish)

sudo /etc/init.d/kodi stop
Stopping Kodi
start-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 4967: No such process
1 pids were not killed
No process in pidfile '/var/run/kodi.pid' found running; none killed.

So kodi crashed.
Can someone explain and bring me to the right path? My expirience is not much more then copying scripts from the internet and do something I don't realy understand to bring them to work.

What I want is running kodi headless on my server and have some Raspis or other machines with normal kodi. mysql on the nas.

My System is

sudo uname -a
Linux server 3.13.0-55-generic #94-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 18 00:27:10 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

running as kvm guest under proxmox 3.4-6 on an HP Gen8 Microserver. An other Guest is the NAS under Jessie with NFS, Samba, ftp, tftp, mysql (for central kodi db).

Thanks for the work, wish I could do 1% from that :-)

Matthias