2008-04-14, 16:24
Hello, I've got quite a big problem with OSXBMC so I'm creating this thread to check if anyone else has the same problem and if there is anything I can do to help fixing it.
Here is the deal. I've been running OSXBMC since the first version. I'm running it on my MacBook (black one and a half year old) and I'm running it in full screen on my second display (a 20" Dell WFP2007). Leopard is fully updated with all the updates from Software update and the machine is working perfectly except the random hard reboots with OSXBMC.
I'm running OSXBMC every day for watching series/movies and it's working like a charm most of the time. I'm starting and stopping it quite a few times per day.
I'm the kind of person who never reboots a computer and leave everything open so it's kind of a pain in the a** when the computer hard reboots.
The reboot seems to happen at random a few days between when I start OSXBMC. I start it, like I always do, and I can see that it blanks my screens and tries to start but then something fails and the computer just reboots. I don't get any warning, crash notice or anything like that. The computer just reboots after a second or two without a word. It never comes that far as showing me the GUI so something probably fails miserably in the startup of OSXBMC that makes the whole computer hard reboot.
I don't have any other problems at all with the computer and it works fine except with these random reboots in OSXBMC.
This problem has happened for me with all versions of OSXBMC and I'm running the latest one at the moment. I always clean my settings between installing a new version and I completely (appzapper) remove the old install.
Has this happened to anyone else and is there anything you can do about it?
Is this a known problem or should a ticket be created?
Is it possible to capture the debug output, even thou it reboots, from OSXBMC?
I'm thankful for all the help and information I can get and I hope this bug can be figured out.
Here is the deal. I've been running OSXBMC since the first version. I'm running it on my MacBook (black one and a half year old) and I'm running it in full screen on my second display (a 20" Dell WFP2007). Leopard is fully updated with all the updates from Software update and the machine is working perfectly except the random hard reboots with OSXBMC.
I'm running OSXBMC every day for watching series/movies and it's working like a charm most of the time. I'm starting and stopping it quite a few times per day.
I'm the kind of person who never reboots a computer and leave everything open so it's kind of a pain in the a** when the computer hard reboots.
The reboot seems to happen at random a few days between when I start OSXBMC. I start it, like I always do, and I can see that it blanks my screens and tries to start but then something fails and the computer just reboots. I don't get any warning, crash notice or anything like that. The computer just reboots after a second or two without a word. It never comes that far as showing me the GUI so something probably fails miserably in the startup of OSXBMC that makes the whole computer hard reboot.
I don't have any other problems at all with the computer and it works fine except with these random reboots in OSXBMC.
This problem has happened for me with all versions of OSXBMC and I'm running the latest one at the moment. I always clean my settings between installing a new version and I completely (appzapper) remove the old install.
Has this happened to anyone else and is there anything you can do about it?
Is this a known problem or should a ticket be created?
Is it possible to capture the debug output, even thou it reboots, from OSXBMC?
I'm thankful for all the help and information I can get and I hope this bug can be figured out.