[Milhouse]

Hi Milhouse,

thanks for your response. I tested a lot of test builds during the last hours.
The followinf test scenarios:
- complete Network boot wir path to boot files and storage dir.
- clean storage dir only with advancedsettings.xml
- tested with complete redirect of masterprofile and redirect of special files in masterprofile
- the problem is only with sources.xml and passwords.xml. if both are not redirected it is working, a complete redirect of masterprofile is also not working.
- Same problem with smb and nfs redirect (nfs has no username/password for the protocol)

as I said, i made a lot of tests and I hope a made no mistake!

Up to 0326 is working and from 0327 its not working.

The obvious candidate in #0327 is the following:

Build Details:

1. XBMC:
   • [xbmc] fix credentials in an URL in case of VFS add-on. (PR:13680, 2 commits, 5 files changed)
     

 

This is quite a serious bug that will affect many that are using path substitution, I would imagine.

The next step would be to produce a simple test case and open an issue on trac.kodi.tv. And/or ping @afedchin.

Edit: I've pinged @afedchin, he'll try and have a look at it tomorrow which may avoid having to create a trac ticket. 

Hi Milhouse,

any news about the Problem? Can/Should I do something or is it on the way??

thanks
Frank

@afedchin managed to reproduce the issue, and confirmed it is due to the passwords.xml file being path substituted and being loaded from a location that requires authentication. It's something of an impossible situation - you can't load the passwords.xml from an authenticated url when the authentication details are inside the passwords.xml file... Currently he's not sure how to fix it. Indeed, there may not be a solution (although it would be nice if Kodi didn't crash).

A short term solution (maybe the only solution) would be to not use path substitution for the passwords.xml file.