[Spirou]

After installing a new build of kodi 18 I am no longer able to open clientspecific settings in pvr & tv section. It seems liks kodi is totally unresponsive when selecting the entry. Settings have remained unchanged and vdr/kodi is running smoothly as before. Just that I can't access the vdr osd and settings any more.

vdr 2.3.8 is installed locally with currently only vnisserver and ddci2 plugin active

When selecting the menu entry only these lines are added to syslog:

Jan 11 01:17:11 kodi-mc vdr: [1240] loading /var/lib/vdr/plugins/vnsiserver/allowed_hosts.conf
Jan 11 01:17:11 kodi-mc vdr: [1240] VNSI: Client with ID 31 connected: 127.0.0.1:36136
Jan 11 01:17:11 kodi-mc vdr: [1992] VNSI Client 31->127.0.0.1:36136 thread started (pid=933, tid=1992, prio=high)
Jan 11 01:17:11 kodi-mc vdr: [1992] VNSI: Welcome client 'XBMC osd client' with protocol version '12'
Jan 11 01:17:11 kodi-mc vdr: [1992] VNSI: cxSocket::read(fd=24): eof, connection closed
Jan 11 01:17:11 kodi-mc vdr: [1992] VNSI Client 31->127.0.0.1:36136 thread ended (pid=933, tid=1992)
Jan 11 01:17:11 kodi-mc vdr: [1244] VNSI: Client with ID 31 seems to be disconnected, removing from client list

Is this a known issue wth the recent code or what else can I do to help troubleshoot?

Edit:
It's interesting, though, that when I open the clientspecific settings menu from another vnsi client (RPI3 running kodi 17.6/LE 8.2.2) which accesses the same vdr on the above host, I am getting the osd and settings displayed correctly and syslog shows:

Jan 11 02:08:14 kodi-mc vdr: [1239] loading /var/lib/vdr/plugins/vnsiserver/allowed_hosts.conf
Jan 11 02:08:14 kodi-mc vdr: [1239] VNSI: Client with ID 27 connected: 192.168.178.15:55962
Jan 11 02:08:14 kodi-mc vdr: [2533] VNSI Client 27->192.168.178.15:55962 thread started (pid=848, tid=2533, prio=high)
Jan 11 02:08:14 kodi-mc vdr: [2533] VNSI: Welcome client 'XBMC osd client' with protocol version '10'
Jan 11 02:08:14 kodi-mc vdr: [2533] VNSI: new osd provider

So to me it looks like the issue is only present in the new kodi 18 code. With previous kodi 18 alpha code, like from a week ago, I am pretty sure it was also still working.

[FernetMenta]

I am not ware of any issues and here all works as expected. What build do you use? Please post a debug log

[Spirou]

Debug log is available from https://paste.ubuntu.com/26364955/

Matching syslog entries at 09:58.30:

Jan 11 09:58:30 kodi-mc vdr: [1223] loading /var/lib/vdr/plugins/vnsiserver/allowed_hosts.conf
Jan 11 09:58:30 kodi-mc vdr: [1223] VNSI: Client with ID 2 connected: 127.0.0.1:47304
Jan 11 09:58:30 kodi-mc vdr: [1773] VNSI Client 2->127.0.0.1:47304 thread started (pid=886, tid=1773, prio=high)
Jan 11 09:58:30 kodi-mc vdr: [1773] VNSI: Welcome client 'XBMC osd client' with protocol version '12'
Jan 11 09:58:30 kodi-mc vdr: [1773] VNSI: cxSocket::read(fd=18): eof, connection closed
Jan 11 09:58:30 kodi-mc vdr: [1773] VNSI Client 2->127.0.0.1:47304 thread ended (pid=886, tid=1773)
Jan 11 09:58:30 kodi-mc vdr: [1226] VNSI: Client with ID 2 seems to be disconnected, removing from client list

I pressed volume up before und volume down after I tried to open client specific settings from gui -maybe that helps to locate the respective entries in the log.
System info tells me I'm running on version "Kodi 18.0-ALPHA1 Git:20180110-f638e40-dirty"

System is Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.13.0-26-generic x86_64) running only VDR 2.3.8 and kodi 18 alpha.

Thanks for looking into it.

Edit:
Here's another debug log with less noise (after startting with an empty .kodi folder and enabling only vdr vnsi client addon:
https://paste.ubuntu.com/26365053/

Yet, still the same issue

[FernetMenta]

Where did you get Kodi and the vnsi addon from?

[Spirou]

Checked out the sources from github (git clone git://github.com/xbmc/xbmc.git kodi) and followed the instructions in docs/README.ubuntu and docs/README.linux on how to compile.

Edit: One thing I noticed was that ubuntu kernel was updated from 4.10 to 4.13 last night (before checkout and compile of latest code). Not sure if this has any impact.

[FernetMenta]

How did you build vnsi? Can you post the build output?

[Spirou]

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I uploaded the content of tools/depends/target/binary-addons/native/pvr.vdr.vnsi-prefix/src/pvr.vdr.vnsi-build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log to http://paste.ubuntu.com/26365825/. Hope this is what you require. Else, please let me know which file/info to upload.

For the actual build of vnsi addon, after build of kodi I proceeded with make -C tools/depends/target/binary-addons PREFIX=/usr/local as per the instructions given in README.linux.

[FernetMenta]

I am more interested in the compiler output. Looking for an entry like this: "VDR OSD support enabled via OpenGL" and "Configured render system:"

[Spirou]

Do you have any hint where to find that output? I used a grep -R "Configured render system:" in the source directory but didn't find anything. Looks like all output was just sent to the console.

I could rebuild kodi and or vnsi with sources checked out yesterday if you could guide me on how to log properly and clean up prior to re-build - usually I remove old directory before checking out fresh code from github to avoid interference with old files.

[FernetMenta]

Do you have any hint where to find that output? I used a grep -R "Configured render system:" in the source directory but didn't find anything. Looks like all output was just sent to the console.

 

 Yes, it is written to the console. You can direct console output to a file by adding > somefile.txt to the command

[Spirou]

Here you go: http://paste.ubuntu.com/26366297/
I tried a re-build via make -C tools/depends/target/binary-addons PREFIX=/usr/local ADDONS="pvr.vdr.vnsi" clean && make -C tools/depends/target/binary-addons PREFIX=/usr/local ADDONS="pvr.vdr.vnsi"

The relevant lines in the output read like:

-- VDR OSD support enabled via OpenGL
-- Configured render system: gl

[FernetMenta]

looks all good. does music visualization spectrum work on your system?

[FernetMenta]

should be fixed now: vnsi 3.5.2

[Spirou]

Wow, that was quick. Thanks for fixing.

However, since you were asking: I enabled music virtualization spectrum but it doesn't seem to produce any output either.

Will check out latest code later and rebuild kodi and addons from scratch.

Update:

Your fix really made my day I'm able to access the client specific settings again.
Many thanks again!

Out of curiosity I applied your fix to visualization.spectrum/resources/shaders/1.2/frag.glsl - and voila! It's working again
Are you going to commit this fix also to the visualization.spectrum addon or do I need to raise a request in another thread?