[fritsch]

No. Oe 4.2 will ship Gotham only.

Helix master builds will have those in the future.

[noggin]

Just updated my system again and it appears to be a lot more robust. ~20% across both CPUs playing 25Mbs 1080/50i H264 with a Motion Compensated de-interlace and with "Prefer VAAPI Render Method" enabled.

Fritsch and Fernetmenta - you guys seriously rock (Thanks also to Intel for working on the bugs)

The 2955U-based Chromebox is now pretty close to perfect for my needs.

[M4tt0]

Hi fritsch,

OK, I have nuked my NUC in order to do some testing with your builds. I followed your instructions in #1, but XBMC does not start up (no xbmc.log either).

Here the remaining logs:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/8191533/
http://paste.ubuntu.com/8191540/
http://paste.ubuntu.com/8191552/
http://paste.ubuntu.com/8191559/
http://paste.ubuntu.com/8191560/

I was suspecting the plymouth package to create the trouble and changed the grub_mcdline_linux_default to "noplymouth" (followed by sudo update-grub), but to no avail.

Any advice appreciated...

Thanks and best,

M4tt0

[fritsch]

Your user is walter _not_ xbmc. You need to adjust the upstart script or follow the howto to the word, especially the reconfigure of xserver-common is not optional.

[M4tt0]

First of all, thanks a lot for looking into this, fritsch! Much appreciated!

I have gone through your installation instructions word by word again and always used copy&paste in order not to introduce typos. I also reconfigured xserver-common again.

In the logs I gave you the wrong id, but I believe the xbmc user is configured correctly, too. Here it is:
uid=1001(xbmc) gid=1001(xbmc) Gruppen=1001(xbmc),20(dialout),24(cdrom),29(audio),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),100(users)

What I realized though is that the /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/custom-actions.pkla file could not be written (despite sudo) due to lack of access rights. I did not realize that the file could not be written in my initial installaion. In fact, I can't even cd into the localauthority directory (as adm user walter). Could that be the problem?

The only other deviation from your instructions was that I installed the mini.iso and not the server.iso despite running an UEFI system (Intel NUC i5). I did that because Intel updated the BIOS firmware to address respective issues. I tried the mini and it worked (the SSD boots up without complaints) so I did not worry...

One more thing: I installed the system with an old monitor, connected via MiniDisplayPort to VGA adapter. Since the upstart script waits for HDMI to become ready, I thought that might be the problem. But I have connected the NUC to my TV now. The HDMI Out of the NUC is connected to a HDMI switch, which is in turn connected to the TV, but again XBMC does not start up.

What do you think?

Many thanks again and best regards,

M4tt0

[M4tt0]

Update: I brute-forced my way into localauthority by sudo chmod a+rw localauthority. Then I was able to create the pkla file. But the reboot did not improve the situation. *Sigh*

Here a new dmesg with my NUC being connected via HDMI:

http://paste.ubuntu.com/8196802/

Best,

M4tt0

[fritsch]

Xorg.0.log available?

Stop the xbmc service please. Then Start with your xbmc user: X& enter
After this: DISPLAY=:0 xbmc

What happens?

[M4tt0]

No Xorg.0.log. No xbmc service running, at least I could not find anything with ps auxww | grep xbmc.
I rebooted the NUC, logged in as xbmc (directly on the NUC, not via ssh) and executed X& enter.
The screen turned black. I tried to get the shell back (Ctrl-c), but the screen kept black. I tried to enter the DISPLAY command blindly, no change.

Anyways, I have got an Xorg.0.log now:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/8198943

Hope this is helpful!?

Best,

M4tt0

[fritsch]

Do both via SSH. Just press return enterepress two timestimes.times. Mmh mobile phone goes nuts...

[M4tt0]

You and your mobile are still good enough to get things going... ;-)

xbmc starts up and appears on the screen. I cannot navigate as the IR is not responding, but I had to fix that within OpenELEC too.

Here the new Xorg.0.log:

http://paste.ubuntu.com/8199196/

[fritsch]

Pastebin the init xbmc.conf I think you missed to paste it completely.

[M4tt0]

Don't know what to wish for now. Either I'm completely stupid or it is more complicated...

Here you go:

http://paste.ubuntu.com/8199621/

[fritsch]

All fine. Find var log upstart xbmc.log and habe a look.

[M4tt0]

Hmmh. Full of the following...
'o passwd entry for user 'xbmc

Let me guess, the xbmc user must not have a pwd?

[fritsch]

Nope. How did you add the user? It does not exist in etc passwd? Sure you selected everyone in x11-common?
Pastebin that log. It is of course allowed to habe a password.