[oregano]

Hi

I build a new HTPC on base of a Ubuntu 11.10. It works fine, has connection to internet and so on.

I installed XBMC with the help of this manual: [1]

Worked fine, until I tried to use the online features (movie information, installing addons ...).

Gathering movie information refused my wishes with "unable to connect to remote server".
When installing Add-Ons it primarly does nothing, on second try it startet to download and ends with 0%.
To confuse me totally some movies got there informations and I haven't any guess, when this happened.

Logfile can be found here.


I believe it has problems to use the connection of the host system the whole times.

I hope you're able to help me and overlook my terrible foreigners english.

[oregano]

Thanks for... um ... not that much

I also tried Kubuntu, Xubuntu and ended up with openSuSE 12.1. I got the same error everywhere.

But I managed to find out, that the error results from curl combined with my groggy ISP.
But I found the hint with the advanced settings xml on other parts of the forum.

I increased the timeouts and my problems wondrously disappeared:

Code:

vim $userhomedir/.xbmc/userdata/advancedsettings.xml

[inserted:]
<advancedsettings>
<network>
    <autodetectpingtime>30</autodetectpingtime> <!-- Length in seconds between pinging the network to detect new xbox's -->
    <curlclienttimeout>40</curlclienttimeout> <!-- Timeout in seconds for libcurl (http/ftp) connections -->
    <curllowspeedtime>40</curllowspeedtime> <!-- Time in seconds for libcurl to consider a connection lowspeed -->
    <httpproxyusername></httpproxyusername> <!-- username for Basic Proxy Authentication -->
    <httpproxypassword></httpproxypassword> <!-- password for Basic Proxy Authentication -->
    <disableipv6>true</disableipv6>
</network>
</advancedsettings>
[saved and tried]