Solved Issue Crash when playing video, Remote Communication Server Fails to Start upon relaunch

(2012-08-05 01:13)pecinko Wrote:  Are you serious?

Thread title says crash playing video, further you say it's on os x and mac mini. Then music scanning is problem, then it's ok with local content.

Now, you say that everything was fine but problem popped up eventually. However you forget to mention that you moved to network source and changed os x for a windows in the meantime?

I'm sorry I thought I did mention that the problem has morphed. I have multiple installations. This problem persists on all of them. PC is actually my main one. But I apologize for going off topic. Perhaps I'll start a new thread.... Sorry for wasting the forums time...

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(2012-08-05 11:26)toiva Wrote:  

well played...

Again, I'm sorry for going so off topic back there. I basically started talking/typing out loud about all the issues I've been having but felt it was at least prudent to report on the status of the initial problem. I finally found time to test the Mac Mini: I turned on debugging and ran an hour long TV show and experienced no crash. It would appear that either changing the Thumbnails folder from /volume1/Web to /volume1/Video (the location of the Video files) or explicitly adding 501 to the "users" of my Synology (even though I feel like that should be covered by the root_squash and * of the "exports). Even though all things worked at some point before doing these things, at least I'm not getting the random crash on the Mac Mini (and seems to be less on the iOS version).

So thanks again to everybody for all your help and sorry again for babbling off topic.

known issue in xbmc eden when using multiple nfs exports where media is located on a different one as thumbnails and pathsubstitution for thumbnails is turned on @seth

(2012-08-07 18:30)Memphiz Wrote:  known issue in xbmc eden when using multiple nfs exports where media is located on a different one as thumbnails and pathsubstitution for thumbnails is turned on @seth

Yes thanks, could this have something to do with the issues I'm seeing with my Music Library? that is that the thumbnails are on the /volume1/Video share and not the volume1/Music share? Would a symlink be advisable?

I still don't understand what's the current problem.

- Remove your music sources from XBMC, clean the database when prompted and for the safe measure drop the whole music db from MySQL
- Delete thumbnails/music directory
- Relaunch XBMC so that it recreates the db, add the music source back and scan
- If everything is OK and you can see the cover arts, copy the thumbnails/music directory to your NAS and add path subs to advanced settings

I don't know what bug Memphiz is talking about, i've used Eden with videos and thumbs residing on 2 different exports and it was fine.

(2012-08-07 20:48)toiva Wrote:  I still don't understand what's the current problem.

- Remove your music sources from XBMC, clean the database when prompted and for the safe measure drop the whole music db from MySQL
- Delete thumbnails/music directory
- Relaunch XBMC so that it recreates the db, add the music source back and scan
- If everything is OK and you can see the cover arts, copy the thumbnails/music directory to your NAS and add path subs to advanced settings

I don't know what bug Memphiz is talking about, i've used Eden with videos and thumbs residing on 2 different exports and it was fine.

Yeah I was too for a while, but was experiencing that random crash 60-70% of the way through playing the first video file. This (or one of the other things I suppose) appears to have fixed it.

As far as the Music stuff, all of your steps have been completed and the second time around, thumbnails for my albums did in fact show up, but whenever I relaunch XBMC with the option "Update Library on Startup" under the Music tab enabled, it appears to go through my entire library "Loading media info from files" (not just those that have changed, i.e. none of them) and it inevitably freezes part way through (freezing the Video Library update in the process). I can still navigate around xbmc but if I try to play a file or exit XBMC it freezes completely and I need to force close it.

I appreciate you asking/taking the time to trouble shoot this new issue that appeared while I was trouble shooting the original one, but I totally understand that this new issue has moved past the original and understand if it would be better to just close this particular discussion.

nvm - i have introduced that bug myself and its there (no need to describe how to trigger it i guess) ... but since its offtopic i'm out anyways