XBMC Eden crashing

Thanks for the effort. The more information the better right now I believe. I just can't get the dang thing to crash anymore.

Hi guys, I think I found a temporary solution.. or at least a way to prevent it until it gets fixed.

For me, I noticed that XBMC started crashing more often when I set the Volume Amplification higher. Especially when I skipped backward using the small step back.

So I set the Amplification back to 0,0 dB and did the same with Volume. Now it doesn't crash anymore. This is just my experience.. and maybe it will help the devs to narrow it down. Please let me know if it helped anyone else.

I'm on a Win 7 x64, Intel Core i5 / HD 3000

Problem recreated, continues to be due to skipping around manually in files primarily, it's like the buffering is screwing up.
This time, a DVD rip (VOB) files. :/

Log Name: Application
Source: Application Error
Date: 1/07/2012 10:51:19 PM
Event ID: 1000
Task Category: (100)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: DESKTOP
Description:
Faulting application name: XBMC.exe, version: 10.5.0.0, time stamp: 0x4f6a5a0a
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.1.7601.17725, time stamp: 0x4ec49b8f
Exception code: 0xc0000374
Fault offset: 0x000ce6c3
Faulting process id: 0x33a0
Faulting application start time: 0x01cd5787094c549f
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC\XBMC.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll
Report Id: 73baa057-c37b-11e1-a26f-005056c00008
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Application Error" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>100</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2012-07-01T12:51:19.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>18524</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>DESKTOP</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>XBMC.exe</Data>
<Data>10.5.0.0</Data>
<Data>4f6a5a0a</Data>
<Data>ntdll.dll</Data>
<Data>6.1.7601.17725</Data>
<Data>4ec49b8f</Data>
<Data>c0000374</Data>
<Data>000ce6c3</Data>
<Data>33a0</Data>
<Data>01cd5787094c549f</Data>
<Data>C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC\XBMC.exe</Data>
<Data>C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll</Data>
<Data>73baa057-c37b-11e1-a26f-005056c00008</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

This problem is EXTREMELY frustrating. It's a glaring issue that makes it impossible to put this on a production PC and have any kind of WAF....

I've had this problem with every version of XBMC since I came back to XBMC from Meedios a year or so ago. Too many skips, crash. Others have given the details enough that I don't think mine will shed any new light, just wanted to make it clear that for me I had the identical problem before Eden as well.

Same problems here. Skips cause crashing. Sometimes it can be from just one skip. Enabling logging seems to get rid of the problem. I can't seem to get a log file with the crash when debug is on.

Ask yourself this fellas... What is going on while debug is on that is fixing the issue?

PS... Is there a way to disable the OSD in debug mode? I have no problem letting it run in debug mode all the time if I can just get rid of the on screen display.

(2012-07-23 06:50)mortyBox Wrote:  PS... Is there a way to disable the OSD in debug mode? I have no problem letting it run in debug mode all the time if I can just get rid of the on screen display.

Take a look here

If you set the loglevel to 1 in that file, you will avoid the crash, but you won`t see any debug information on screen.

If I'm to understand the reason this hasn't been fixed correctly is due to the developers not being able to reproduce the bug?

Perhaps we could resolve this issue by having somebody who is able to compile different XBMC builds that have different functions of the debug mode commented out or otherwise disabled, and the people who have this problem can try those builds until they find the one that works? I think that would probably go a long ways towards figuring this out.

(my coding skills are limited to scripting languages and some C#, I don't have any confidence in my own ability to reliably tinker with code in a project as big as XBMC without causing some other problem in the process.)

I'll volunteer to test.

EDIT:

Although I am having a major major crashing problem now - this is NOT the skipping around while playing a video crash.
Either one of my thumbnails is corrupt or my database as the program is crashing every 5 minutes when navigating my movie library.
Not happy but want to be sure the information in this thread is only for what seems to be the very random 'seeking' fault.



Any tips on how to fix my other issues?

EDIT2 / UPDATE:
I have isolated my crash down to a single movie file crashing XBMC as soon as it's scanned via the media scanner. I have no idea how or why it's occuring.
If anyone would like more information regarding this, please let me know. I can only assume this kind of information is useful to the developers.
*THIS IS NOT* the same bug as the skip back / forth bug - I can reproduce this one consistently (XBMC has crashed about 40 times today in me figuring out which file it was)



EDIT3 / UPDATE:
I have this file available if anyone would like a copy, to replicate the bug. I've done testing on a VM and can crash a fresh copy of XBMC.
However, the latest nightly does not crash.
The file is 300mb, anyone able to host it?

Again, new crash from xbmc with loglevel set to 1.
The log can be found here
Looks like it wont provide any extra information, but I still have hope for a fix to this bug...