2020-05-05, 05:55
So I decided to do some experimentation and see if I couldn't get to the bottom of the Skin Helper Service error. Since this was a brand new Kodi install I decided to start from scratch and blew it away entirely, including configs and dependencies and everything.
I installed Kodi fresh. Did some basic config and imported my Movie library. I installed the Confluence skin, because I'm intimately familiar with it and to see if the Skin Helper Service was required of running non-default skins (it's not). I added Weatherbit.IO so that there would be an Add-on and then I installed the Aeon MQ 8 skin.
Upon install, I very carefully watched for prompts to install additional items and answered Yes.
Aeon immediately requested permission to install the Skin Helper Service and almost immediately after that prompted to install Animated Weather icons, with a progress indicator. After that completed 100% it prompted to install some "White" icons or somesuch and that proceeded to 100%.
It then prompted to install the Skin Helper Service again and this time it proceeded to 100%. Whereupon it immediately threw an error, as noted in my earlier posts. It also causes a prolonged Kodi shutdown and produces a Kodi Crashlog in the user Home folder (I failed to notice it was doing this earlier, but it was and I had to delete a bunch of crashlogs when I first wiped Kodi).
I'm going to do another install from scratch and this time answer No the second time it prompts to install the Skin Helper Service. See if that makes any difference.
Any suggestions from your end?
Okay. That didn't do it.
NOTE: If it helps any, this time I had Debug Log mode enabled throughout the skin installation process. Including the separate Skin Helper Service installation.
After skin install it immediately prompted to install the Skin Helper Service, I answered Yes and once again it did not present a Progress indicator/bar. It immediately prompted to install the Studio White icons. I answered Yes and it did its thing and progressed to 100%. It did not prompt to install Animated Weather icons this time because I forgot to activate it in the System Settings after installing the Weather.IO Add-on.
Skin Helper Service did not immediately prompt to be installed a second time. It waited a short bit and prompted again the next time I went back to the Main Menu (from Movies). I answered No. I went into Weather and realized my previous faux pas. When I exited Weather back to the Main Menu, it prompted to install the Skin Helper Service again. I answered No and shortly thereafter exited Kodi. Exiting was prolonged as it wrote a Kodi Crashlog.
I went back into Kodi, it immediately prompted to install the Skin Helper Service and I answered Yes. It installed the service with a proper Progress indicator/bar this time, advanced through to 100% and...
...Instantly threw the error. :'(
If I can be of further use as a guinea pig, let me know soonest. I'd love to stick with Aeon MQ 8 if we can figure out how to squash this bug.
I installed Kodi fresh. Did some basic config and imported my Movie library. I installed the Confluence skin, because I'm intimately familiar with it and to see if the Skin Helper Service was required of running non-default skins (it's not). I added Weatherbit.IO so that there would be an Add-on and then I installed the Aeon MQ 8 skin.
Upon install, I very carefully watched for prompts to install additional items and answered Yes.
Aeon immediately requested permission to install the Skin Helper Service and almost immediately after that prompted to install Animated Weather icons, with a progress indicator. After that completed 100% it prompted to install some "White" icons or somesuch and that proceeded to 100%.
It then prompted to install the Skin Helper Service again and this time it proceeded to 100%. Whereupon it immediately threw an error, as noted in my earlier posts. It also causes a prolonged Kodi shutdown and produces a Kodi Crashlog in the user Home folder (I failed to notice it was doing this earlier, but it was and I had to delete a bunch of crashlogs when I first wiped Kodi).
I'm going to do another install from scratch and this time answer No the second time it prompts to install the Skin Helper Service. See if that makes any difference.
Any suggestions from your end?
Okay. That didn't do it.
NOTE: If it helps any, this time I had Debug Log mode enabled throughout the skin installation process. Including the separate Skin Helper Service installation.
After skin install it immediately prompted to install the Skin Helper Service, I answered Yes and once again it did not present a Progress indicator/bar. It immediately prompted to install the Studio White icons. I answered Yes and it did its thing and progressed to 100%. It did not prompt to install Animated Weather icons this time because I forgot to activate it in the System Settings after installing the Weather.IO Add-on.
Skin Helper Service did not immediately prompt to be installed a second time. It waited a short bit and prompted again the next time I went back to the Main Menu (from Movies). I answered No. I went into Weather and realized my previous faux pas. When I exited Weather back to the Main Menu, it prompted to install the Skin Helper Service again. I answered No and shortly thereafter exited Kodi. Exiting was prolonged as it wrote a Kodi Crashlog.
I went back into Kodi, it immediately prompted to install the Skin Helper Service and I answered Yes. It installed the service with a proper Progress indicator/bar this time, advanced through to 100% and...
...Instantly threw the error. :'(
If I can be of further use as a guinea pig, let me know soonest. I'd love to stick with Aeon MQ 8 if we can figure out how to squash this bug.
