[Ronner]

I have a text-only minimal ubuntu install and installed xbmc on it. To run XBMC I use "xinit xbmc-standalone", and that works fine.

I made a global lircrc in /etc/lirc/lircrc that has a simple set up;

begin
button = Home
prog = irexec
config = /home/xbmc/startXMBC.sh &
end

startXBMC.sh does nothing more than "xinit xbmc-standalone"

When my system boots, it simply boots up and presents you with a login prompt. That's the way I want it because it is actually a home-server that is on 24/7, but I do not want to have xbmc running on the machine 24/7 so I chose to remove xbmc-live and not have it autostart xbmc on boot.

By pressing the home button on the remote, it should start XBMC.

When I log in (either via ssh or on the machine itself) and do sudo /etc/init.d/lirc restart, it simply restarts the lirc daemon and irexec and after that if I press the home button, it start xbmc just fine.

However, if I do not issue /etc/init.d/lirc restart after a (re)boot, pressing the home button seems to start XBMC, but instead it gets stuck on a small white screen in the top-left corner and doesn't display XBMC.

Going in with ssh and doing ps aux | grep xbmc, shows that it's running, but it's not visible. killing the process and issueing a lirc restart and then pressing the home button on the remote again makes sure that from then on it works.

Anyone have an idea what's going wrong and why I have to issue a restart for this to work straight after a (re)boot?

[Ringerl]

Same problem here under 12.04 - how did you get this fixed?

Any pointers?

[teeedubb]

Are you executing irexec on boot? If so how?

[tsoifun]

Same here with ubuntu 12.04 and xbmc 13 from git 13 February 2013

[Ringerl]

Same problem eith 12.04 lts and xbmc 12 release channel.