[hevers1981]

I have XBMC as more or less a fresh PPA install, Ubuntu Gnome 14.04, AMD64 architecture and from what I understand the PPA is installing Gotham 14.0 Alpha.

The method of install was taken directly from the downloads page for XBMC at: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Ins..._for_Linux

I'm attempting to access Addons with the Confluence skin, this problem also replicates when using Hybrid and Black Glass Nova.

When I try to install any addons at all, including anything from the main XBMC repo, XBMC will crash. The only way I can install add-ons is to unzip the files directly into the addons directory in my ~/.xbmc/addons folder.

Here is what a fresh xbmc.log shows after replicating the problem.

http://pastebin.com/fF2fVfvn

providing xbmc.log is all I can do at this time as the method to install XBMC log uploader also crashes XBMC the moment I click Get More from the Programs menu.

Can anyone please help me restore addons functionality or is anyone else out there experiencing this problem?

Thanks!

[DaVu]

This might happen if you use Alphas. If you followed this: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Ins..._for_Linux

at step 1.1 and using this ppa....ppa:team-xbmc/ppa, you will get the stable version of XBMC. And with this version your Add-Ons might install as expected.

Found this in your log:

20:53:05 T:140219719874496 INFO: ADDON: cpluff: 'Could not read plug-in directory /usr/local/lib/xbmc/addons: No such file or directory'

I always thought addons are installed at the userdata folder.

[un1versal]

For updated and upgrading information about ppas and XBMCversions use Team XBMC PPA (wiki) addons are in .xbmc addons directory and addon settings are stored inside addon_data directory inside userdata (wiki)

[wsnipex]

no way this is a version from our PPAs:
Starting XBMC (14.0-ALPHA1 Git:2014-07-15-c550042-dirty)
NOTICE: special://xbmc/ is mapped to: /usr/local/share/xbmc
NOTICE: special://xbmcbin/ is mapped to: /usr/local/lib/xbmc

This is a manual compile where someone fiddled with the source

[hevers1981]

This is the version that installed after I deleted ~/.xbmc after removing a previous copy that was doing the same thing, and it was installed from the software center.

I'll erase it again, check my /etc/apt/sources.list for any ppa's other than the main one and re-install.

UPDATE

Wow... I feel a bit stupid right now.... hahahah!

So I checked my /etc/apt/sources.list and found this entry at the bottom

##Unstable XBMC stuff
##
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/wsnipex/xbmc-ad...ble/ubuntu trusty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/wsnipex/xbmc-ad...ble/ubuntu trusty main

I don't remember adding these PPA's to my computer but I'm the only one who uses this computer.....

-facepalm- I apologize for wasting your time.

[wsnipex]

this is still not the reason. There is no way any package on any ppa will install stuff to /usr/local, as this simply is not allowed by debian policy. So you MUST have installed this yourself. And /usr/local/bin per default takes precedence over /usr/bin(which is where our packages install xbmc).

do you have /usr/bin/xbmc? if yes, start it manually from the console and see what happens

[hevers1981]

this is still not the reason. There is no way any package on any ppa will install stuff to /usr/local, as this simply is not allowed by debian policy. So you MUST have installed this yourself. And /usr/local/bin per default takes precedence over /usr/bin(which is where our packages install xbmc).

do you have /usr/bin/xbmc? if yes, start it manually from the console and see what happens

If I did install it manually I don't remember. After removing the ppa and doing an remove, purge, clean, and autoremove, the git for alpha was still installed so I just did a global search as root and deleted all instances of XBMC from my computer.

I think I did an install from another forum a long time ago for secondary display support because XBMC wouldn't let me select HDMI-0 for my monitor but that version did. Anyways, I was able to re-install the latest stable version, but I'm back to the original problem of not being able to get fullscreen mode on a secondary monitor and when I list it as primary in nvidia-settings, XBMC will make DVI-0 the primary and subsequently turn off my 46" secondary display. I'll just bite the nail and run it in windowed mode until 14 is stable.