Kodi crashes after upgrading to ubuntu 14.04, samba shares
#1
Hi guys,

Ran Ubuntu 12.10 for a few years with xbmc 13.2 without issue. But craving some newer software (and challenges) eventually led me to update to 14.04. Surprisingly I got it working and updated to kodi 15 in the process. However now kodi is crashing constantly, possibly related to libsmb or samba (I am using samba shares on the same machine). It seems to do this on a clean ~/.kodi as well when readding a media source.

I get some freed frame / talloc errors shown on console when it crashes.
http://pastebin.com/v8HxJZQ7

Kodi debug log doesn't seem to show any real errors that I can see but here it is.
http://paste.ubuntu.com/12057300/

System info:

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty

$ uname -a
Linux filebox 3.13.0-61-generic #100-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 29 11:22:15 UTC 2015 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux


Maybe I just need to do a clean reinstall? Would prefer not to since i have a good plethora of other stuff running on the box.
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#2
I hope you did a apt-get dist-upgrade.

If yes, then post the crashlog. Make sure gdb is installed and debugging enabled in kodi
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#3
Yeah I did apt-get dist-upgrade. I believe I had to edit some sources to ubuntu's archive repos coming from 12.10 since they got moved there as an older distro but eventually got the upgrade to 14.04.

Here is the crashlog:

http://paste.ubuntu.com/12064623/
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#4
Starting XBMC (13.2 Git:0f3db05)
upgrade kodi...
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#5
Here is the correct crashlog for kodi 15, sorry just pulled the first crashlog off my old paste above.

http://paste.ubuntu.com/12065422/


I'll add this is after I backed up my old .kodi directory for a fresh start, and added my Movie samba share. Crashed not too long after starting the scan of it.
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#6
sudo apt-get install gdb

then retry
First decide what functions / features you expect from a system. Then decide for the hardware. Don't waste your money on crap.
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#7
Sorry I apologize for the back and forth. I swear I read the help posting guidelines! I mustv'e installed gdb after those particular logs.

Here's a fresh batch:
downloader@filebox:~$ pastebinit /home/downloader/kodi_crashlog-20150812_165206.log
http://paste.ubuntu.com/12065623/
downloader@filebox:~$ pastebinit .kodi/temp/kodi.log
http://paste.ubuntu.com/12065624/

Also console output from running kodi, a bit different this time than before:
http://pastebin.com/EqcdKNMw

I looked for a core file in my homedir but did not see one, though it said core dumped.
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#8
You will have to search as I can not remember the exact package but I remember there was a samba library related to security/authentication that is not necessary and causes issues like this. I can not remember where I found the info. But some searching might get you closer. If I can find it i will let you know.
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