[crzxlimitz]

I am having the same issue where I get "SKIN HELPER SERVICE ERROR" everytime I lauch kodi. I am using Jarvis and I would like to stay with this version, so I want to find a solution WITHOUT upgrading kodi. I dug a little deeper and here are my findings:

<<<< See snippet of the kodi.log below >>>>>

0. Looking at the log file it seemed like the main cause of the error is the "ImportError: No module named argparse" -- see log snippet below.
1.  Inside script.module.cherrypy folder is "portend.py which tries to import "argparse" module.
2.  Argparse module is not available by default on Python version 2.6. which is what kodi jarvis uses. 
3.  Argparse module is available by default starting Python version 2.7 and up.
4. I found argparse module here: https://github.com/rui-castro/kodi-argparse
5. I installed it and got rid of the pop up "Skin Helper Error" however, for some reasons that is currently still beyond me, Kodi Jarvis would crash or close after about 20 secs of opening, which in essence, made it worst. 
6. So now I am back to SQUARE ONE. If anyone has an idea on how to fix this please share. I have exhausted google searches to no success....

Help will be greatly appreciated.


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18:48:37 T:1902300544   ERROR: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<--
                                             - NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS!
                                            Error Type: <type 'exceptions.ImportError'>
                                            Error Contents: No module named argparse
                                            Traceback (most recent call last):
                                              File "/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/addons/script.skin.helper.service/service.py", line 10, in <module>
                                                from resources.lib.main_service import MainService
                                              File "/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/addons/script.skin.helper.service/resources/lib/main_service.py", line 15, in <module>
                                                from webservice import WebService
                                              File "/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/addons/script.skin.helper.service/resources/lib/webservice.py", line 11, in <module>
                                                import cherrypy
                                              File "/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/addons/script.module.cherrypy/lib/cherrypy/__init__.py", line 83, in <module>
                                                from cherrypy import _cpserver
                                              File "/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/addons/script.module.cherrypy/lib/cherrypy/_cpserver.py", line 8, in <module>
                                                from cherrypy.process.servers import ServerAdapter
                                              File "/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/addons/script.module.cherrypy/lib/cherrypy/process/__init__.py", line 14, in <module>
                                                from cherrypy.process import plugins, servers  # noqa
                                              File "/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/addons/script.module.cherrypy/lib/cherrypy/process/servers.py", line 126, in <module>
                                                import portend
                                              File "/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/addons/script.module.cherrypy/lib/portend.py", line 11, in <module>
                                                import argparse
                                            ImportError: No module named argparse
                                            -->End of Python script error report<--

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