[kaayman]

Hi everybody,

I have a problem with XBMC (pre-eden) running on Ubuntu 11.10 final.
I have a pc that has to fulfill 2 functions: NAS & HTPC. NAS is running always, XBMC only when it is time to watch a movie.

To start XBMC I use remote launcher (http://sf.net/apps/mediawiki/remotelauncher/) on the server/NAS, and the corresponding client (http://market.android.com/details?id...telauncherfree) on my android phone.

This worked perfectly on Ubuntu 11.04 & XBMC pre-eden.

After upgrading my NAS from Ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10 I have problems to start XBMC. Note, when I login to the machine, and just type XBMC. it starts !!

When I start XBMC using the remote launcher I can see that the server application sees my command, and trigger the XBMC application. But it does not start, and I can't figure out why not. There is no info in the 'normal' log files (like syslog, xbmc.log ...)

I know that Ubuntu uses another desktop manager (lightdm) and tried to switch back to gdm. But did not fix the problem.

Does anybody have the same problem ? Or better a solution ?

Thanks in advance
kaayman

[h.udo]

Hi.
I'm actually fighting the same battle. I believe lightdm is the the cause. Oneiric deprecated gdm in favor of the much lighter lightdm and it is causing all kinds of hell. Old methods to autostart xbmc (xbmc-live type install with xinit and x11-xserver-utils) aren't working.

I'm reading all I can about this "issue" and, looking into xbmc-live github I can see a lot has changed already to accommodate Oneiric new live-build system. Still, so far, I can't figure it out.

I'll keep in touch if I find a solution.

h.udo

[kaayman]

Finally. I'm not crazy .

If you can find anything to address this problem, please let us known.
I will keep searching also. Will get back here, when i find something.

thanks hudo

[boosted]

Can't help with using your mobile to start xbmc but you could use 'irexec' if you use 'lirc'

I have
/home/<user>/Scripts/startXBMC.sh (make sure permission is set to 'make file executable' also 'DISPLAY=:0.1' starts xbmc on my TV)
#!/bin/bash

# Test to see if XBMC is running first
if ps -ef|grep -v grep|grep -i xbmc.bin
then
# Do nothing
echo "XBMC already Running!"
else
# Startup XBMC
DISPLAY=:0.1 xbmc &
fi
exit

/home/<user>/.lircrc (Use irw to get key code for 'button' I use the green MS key to start xbmc)
# Start XBMC
begin
prog = irexec
button = KEY_HOME
config = /home/rick/Scripts/startXBMC.sh
end

You need irexec running

For gnome, xfce etc
Add 'irexec -d' to startup applications

For LXDE
/home/<user>/.config/autostart/IRexec
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name= IRexec
Comment=IRexec for XBMC
Exec=/usr/bin/irexec -d
Terminal=true

[boosted]

Hi.
I'm actually fighting the same battle. I believe lightdm is the the cause. Oneiric deprecated gdm in favor of the much lighter lightdm and it is causing all kinds of hell. Old methods to autostart xbmc (xbmc-live type install with xinit and x11-xserver-utils) aren't working.

I'm reading all I can about this "issue" and, looking into xbmc-live github I can see a lot has changed already to accommodate Oneiric new live-build system. Still, so far, I can't figure it out.

I'll keep in touch if I find a solution.

h.udo

Could you just replace lightdm with gdm

[kaayman]

Hello everybody,

Today I upgraded all my packages (72), while still using gdm desktop manager.
Afterwards a created a script to start xbmc (I used the following command: DISPLAY=:0 xbmc &), and it worked again. I guess the updates fixed something, because the command was exactly the same as before.

Okay I thought, perhaps it will work with lightdm desktop manager also. This was not the case.

For now i'm using gdm, and my problem is solved (sort of). I still hope this solution will work with lightdm

[kaayman]

Hi guys. Has been a while I have been here.
I would like to tell that previous update did fix the problems... once.
Afterwards I still have the same problem.

Can't start xbmc in lightdm o r gdm using the above command.

[owtroid]

Hi guys. Has been a while I have been here.
I would like to tell that previous update did fix the problems... once.
Afterwards I still have the same problem.

Can't start xbmc in lightdm o r gdm using the above command.

Hi!

I realize that it was a really long time ago since you posted this but I only just saw the post... Is this still an issue or has it been solved? I'm mostly using KDM/KDE myself so I haven't seen this issue.