[negge]

Do you have any crash logs in your home directory?

[woot2133]

nope..
root@xbian ~ # ls -1a /home/xbian/
.bash_history
.bash_logout
.bashrc
.fontconfig
.kodi
.profile
run_on_reboot
screens
.viminfo
.xbian-config-start
.xbian-config-start.sh
xbian-config-update.log
xbian-initramfs-update.log
.xbmc

root@xbian ~ # ls -1a /root/
.bash_history
.bashrc
.profile
.ssh
.vim
.viminfo

[negge]

So it doesn't actually crash then?

[woot2133]

This is the sequence:
Boot splash screen -> menu -> pvr starts and EPG loads -> EPG finishes loading -> Black screen / restart ->
and repeat.

Maybe I'm misinterpreting this as a crash? But it sure looks like something is going wrong.

[negge]

That is generally a crash, but it's undebugable if no crash logs are generated.

[woot2133]

I'm with you 100% on this, I know all too much how it is.
I'll try to gather some useful data and post again.

[woot2133]

Here's another attempt: https://paste.ee/r/tB8EZ

I've now noticed the behavior has changed:
Boot splash screen -> menu loads -> pvr starts and EPG loads -> EPG finishes loading -> Black screen ->
menu loads -> pvr starts and EPG loads -> EPG finishes loading -> Black screen -> menu loads etc

meaning the splash screen is displayed only once.
In order to find the log entries when this happens I've added the following in rc.local:

Code:

while true; do date; sleep 1; done >> /home/xbian/.kodi/temp/date.log

so when the timer skips x seconds, I can match the log lines from kodi.log, between times y and z.
These times for the above wall of text are:

Wed Jul 8 20:34:00 UTC 2015
Wed Jul 8 20:34:01 UTC 2015
Wed Jul 8 20:34:14 UTC 2015
Wed Jul 8 20:34:16 UTC 2015
Wed Jul 8 20:34:17 UTC 2015
[...]
Wed Jul 8 20:34:24 UTC 2015
Wed Jul 8 20:34:25 UTC 2015
Wed Jul 8 20:34:30 UTC 2015
Wed Jul 8 20:34:31 UTC 2015
Wed Jul 8 20:34:41 UTC 2015
Wed Jul 8 20:34:51 UTC 2015
Wed Jul 8 20:34:53 UTC 2015
Wed Jul 8 20:34:55 UTC 2015
[...]
Wed Jul 8 20:35:15 UTC 2015
Wed Jul 8 20:35:17 UTC 2015
Wed Jul 8 20:35:18 UTC 2015
Wed Jul 8 20:35:28 UTC 2015
Wed Jul 8 20:35:30 UTC 2015
Wed Jul 8 20:35:31 UTC 2015
[...]
Wed Jul 8 20:35:32 UTC 2015
Wed Jul 8 20:35:33 UTC 2015
Wed Jul 8 20:35:34 UTC 2015
Wed Jul 8 20:35:39 UTC 2015
Wed Jul 8 20:35:40 UTC 2015
Wed Jul 8 20:35:41 UTC 2015
Wed Jul 8 20:36:00 UTC 2015
Wed Jul 8 20:36:03 UTC 2015
Wed Jul 8 20:36:04 UTC 2015
[...]
Wed Jul 8 20:36:29 UTC 2015
Wed Jul 8 20:36:30 UTC 2015
Wed Jul 8 20:36:31 UTC 2015
Wed Jul 8 20:36:39 UTC 2015
Wed Jul 8 20:36:40 UTC 2015
Wed Jul 8 20:36:41 UTC 2015

So theoretically, during the bold lines above the black screen occurred (theoretically because I cannot recall how many times it happened and because due to load and process priority, it might skip a few lines).

[peak3d]

Could be the same as reported in this PR:

https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/7367

If you compile Kodi on your RPI by yourself you should consider to apply this patch and try again.

[negge]

Can someone try to reproduce this with a master build?