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I'm having freezing issues as well on Kodi, Ubuntu 18.10. It works currently on Ubuntu 18.04. It takes me forever to figure out the process id of this thing and try to kill, then kill -9, all the times, and then Kodi resets to English when I restart it because it didn't close properly and cannot preserve its settings. I'm really annoyed and tired of all these issues. Each and every time I try to do something on Ubuntu related to multimedia (music or video playback, YouTube), I'm getting random issues.
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2018-12-09, 04:54
(This post was last modified: 2018-12-09, 05:02 by PatK.)
Moved from windows thread to the appropriate area to receive max eyeballs. [PatK] Don't duplicate post.
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yes, there is no official v17 for ubuntu 18.10, use unstable ppa untill release
"Kodi from debian" as provided by the ubuntu repos is not supported here.
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2018-12-16, 01:29
(This post was last modified: 2018-12-16, 01:30 by Maxxarcade.)
What hardware are you using? It took a bit of fiddling around with adding the right PPA and such, but I got Kodi 18 working on Ubuntu 18.10 and it's been great so far. I'm using a Ryzen 2400G with the onboard video, and Kodi is running with VAAPI hardware decoding.
After updating the kernel to 4.19.9, I had to install a package called haveged. Otherwise the system would freeze for several minutes on every boot. Other than that, it just works on the stock install. No added video drivers or anything.