Xbmc freezes lock-ups when starting videos

Jan-Erik,

Thanks for the information, but I knew it wouldn't be this easy. I did a do-release-upgrade (but not to the devel....to the lts one), and I blew up my box. It updated OK, but I got the dreaded opengl error. I believe this is because the nvidia driver is not loading in x11 and it's the nouveau one. When I try to install nvidia-current (remove, purge, install), I get a bunch of error messages and it fails to load the nvidia driver.

I try to install the nvidia one from their web site (the .run file), and it fails to install because of the nouveau one.

I should have known better. Oh well, I really don't want to, but I might try to go to the LTS and just rebuild from scratch than use the xbmcbuntu one. It's a shame because Dharma worked wonders....i mean, it's like I didn't have one single problem with it. I figured Eden would be a step up and everything would continue to work, but I was wrong. Hopefully the clean install and the PPA's will be good.

(2012-04-30 03:47)wiz561 Wrote:  Jan-Erik,

Thanks for the information, but I knew it wouldn't be this easy. I did a do-release-upgrade (but not to the devel....to the lts one), and I blew up my box. It updated OK, but I got the dreaded opengl error. I believe this is because the nvidia driver is not loading in x11 and it's the nouveau one. When I try to install nvidia-current (remove, purge, install), I get a bunch of error messages and it fails to load the nvidia driver.

I try to install the nvidia one from their web site (the .run file), and it fails to install because of the nouveau one.

I should have known better. Oh well, I really don't want to, but I might try to go to the LTS and just rebuild from scratch than use the xbmcbuntu one. It's a shame because Dharma worked wonders....i mean, it's like I didn't have one single problem with it. I figured Eden would be a step up and everything would continue to work, but I was wrong. Hopefully the clean install and the PPA's will be good.

Hi wiz561, hope I can save you?

I been there too with the OpenGL problem, read post #66 in this thread and I explain your problem and the fix.
It looks like the upgrade make two different boot options. You have to select the right Linux version ending in ".generic" under "Previous Linux versions" and you're back in business. Later post explain how to automatically bot into the right Linux version.

PM me and later today I send you the full steps I used.

BTW: I still have no reason to change my signature after two days.

@Jan-Erik
How much ram does your system have installed? Without PAE a 32bit os can only address 3GB. Ubuntu would use pae automatically when it detects > 3GB of ram. Not sure what happens if pae is installed on systems with less than 3GB.

(2012-04-30 07:53)Jan-Erik Wrote:  I been there too with the OpenGL problem, read post #66 in this thread and I explain your problem and the fix.
It looks like the upgrade make two different boot options. You have to select the right Linux version ending in ".generic" under "Previous Linux versions" and you're back in business. Later post explain how to automatically bot into the right Linux version.

Jan-Erik,

Hi! Thanks for the info. In the grub menu, I don't think I saw the non-pae kernel. However, in the /boot, I do have pae and just the 'generic' kernel. I'll have to check it out tonight, as I'm not in front of my computer now.

And, lucky for me, I only have 2048 meg of ram. Since everything's being offloaded to the GPU for processing, I think I don't need anything more than that.

Thanks!

(2012-04-30 09:33)FernetMenta Wrote:  @Jan-Erik
How much ram does your system have installed? Without PAE a 32bit os can only address 3GB. Ubuntu would use pae automatically when it detects > 3GB of ram. Not sure what happens if pae is installed on systems with less than 3GB.

Thanks for the info, if you point me to the right log file I might have trace of the boot with PAE that failed with missing OpenGL

Think I have 3 or 4GB and reserve 512MB for graphic card returns 3GB ram

I think we need to get back on track here. Just like all of you I have this problem and managed to get a full debug log just now.

crashlog (only last part, it was too big for pastebin): http://pastebin.com/CVDGrPaK

Has someone figured this out? Is that why the thread has stopped getting relies?

Here are some (complete) log files:

xbmc_crashlog-20120428_202557.log
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B9KOXN4...0c0bnNhRFU

xbmc_crashlog-20120508_000214.log
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B9KOXN4...nk2Mk1xckk

xbmc_crashlog-20120508_215517.log
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B9KOXN4...y1GNk1INjg

xbmc_crashlog-20120508_223424.log
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B9KOXN4...3lOVWlmYkU

Please help, this makes XBMC unusable, and like others the RC builds of eden worked just fine on my box.

(2012-05-09 05:38)OwlBoy Wrote:  Has someone figured this out? Is that why the thread has stopped getting relies?

I'd like to know as well. I also had major problems on an upgrade to Eden (thankfully loaded to a 2nd HDD). The video never even started to play, but crashed xbmcbuntu straight away. I posted about the problem after searching for answers - along with several logs - and never got a reply., Hope this gets resolved.

I haven't seen much info pointing to helping with these issues. I don't know if the XBMC team has any fixes planned or any other post releases like they did with 10.0. The latest blog post http://xbmc.org/natethomas/2012/05/02/xb...ril-cycle/ states they are going in a new direction with bug fixes, but it sounds like its only a plus for windows users, so that seems to do nothing for us.

I posted a thread about my issues and it seems as if no one really cares on here about linux users.. http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=127565

I would suggest you guys try XBMCfreaks http://www.xbmcfreak.nl/en/xbmcbuntu-11-...dition-v2/ or OpenELEC http://openelec.tv/. They seem to be working on the linux version of XBMC. My HTPC is working a little better with XBMCfreaks , but seems to take a bit longer to load and my Revo I just went back to 10.1 for now.