[wassabi]

I've been using the 2008-11-14 build of xbmc for a while, but was interested in several of the features added to the svn. Problem is after switching the sources and upgrading, xbmc crashes on load. This also happens on a clean install of xbmc (using 'apt-get remove --purge xbmc-common' for the uninstall).

Linux Distribution and Version - Ubuntu 8.04
Architecture - i686
Install Method - PPA
SVN Revision - I could duplicate the issue on r17663 and r17700. The logs are from r17700.
Debug Log - http://pastebin.com/m6ab052aa
Term output - http://pastebin.com/mb2cd1d3

I am confused about obtaining the backtrace. The instructions seem to be lacking.

Run "gdb /path/to/xbmc.bin /path/to/core" (xbmc.bin path is in the debug log (see above), core file should be in the current directory (may have the process ID number appended))

My log file gives share/xbmc/xbmc.bin as the executable path. I tried that and got 'no such file or directory'. I also tried /usr/share/xbmc/xbmc.bin and /bin/xbmc.bin with the same results.
I was also guessing about the core file directory. Sorry, I have no clue what the current directory refers to. Same folder but xbmc-xrandr.bin?

Edit: I now see the core files are in my pwd. Still can't find the proper bin folder.

[niko7865]

Same problem, latest PPA-SVN as of 4am PST on Feb 14th

Outputs
Terminal

Code:

$ xbmc
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
method return sender=:1.16 -> dest=:1.366 reply_serial=2

Debug Log
Backtrace

edit:
After following the guide to compile from SVN, both versions work fine, although the PPA build runs a little bit slower. I'm not even sure why the PPA build works now, maybe from installing the dependencies needed to compile?

[wassabi]

It's worth a shot.

Edit:
The hardy pinned topic is missing.
All I could find while searching was a guide for intrepid. This command just gives me "already newest version" warnings, so I guess I already had those dependencies.

Code:

# sudo apt-get install -y localepurge subversion make g++ gcc gawk pmount libtool nasm automake cmake gperf unzip bison libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-gfx1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-sound1.2-dev libsdl-stretch-dev libfribidi-dev liblzo-dev libfreetype6-dev libsqlite3-dev libogg-dev libasound-dev python-sqlite libglew-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev x11proto-xinerama-dev libxinerama-dev libxrandr-dev libxrender-dev libmad0-dev libtre-dev libogg-dev libvorbis-dev libmysqlclient-dev libpcre3-dev libdbus-1-dev libhal-dev libhal-storage-dev libjasper-dev libfontconfig-dev libbz2-dev libboost-dev libfaac-dev libenca-dev libxt-dev libxmu-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev wget zip curl build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r` xorg pm-utils mingetty

niko7865: Since you were able to dump a backtrace, can you point out what I was doing wrong?

[tslayer]

From the log file, it looks like you don't have libcurl installed. Not sure that is why you are crashing, but that is what we see in log:

04:00:35 T:3016104848 M: 52891648 ERROR: Unable to load /usr/lib/libcurl.so, reason: /usr/lib/libcurl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Make sure you have libcurl properly installed. Check /usr/lib to see if it is there.

[tslayer]

FYI, make sure to check README.linux when you use SVN. It contains the deps you need.

Specifically, libcurl4-gnutls-dev.

[olympia]

FYI, make sure to check README.linux when you use SVN. It contains the deps you need.

Specifically, libcurl4-gnutls-dev.

@tslayer
FYI
curl and zip also needed and not listed in README.linux

[tslayer]

Not sure curl is. That is just the cmd-line program. But the libcurl is.

And yes, zip is needed too for python I believe.

[olympia]

Not sure curl is. That is just the cmd-line program. But the libcurl is.

And yes, zip is needed too for python I believe.

Both zip and curl is needed for running plugins and scripts (using python).

I guess you read my step-by-step guide. If I only include the list from README.linux there are errors during make phase. Zip and curl also need to be added for proper make. That's for sure, I was struggling for a week to find it out.

[Novin]

There is probably a missing dependency on the newer xbmc-svn packages.

Normally libcurl4-gnutls-dev or libcurl4-openssl-dev (which both provides /usr/lib/libcurl.so) would be installed automatically.

[olympia]

There is probably a missing dependency on the newer xbmc-svn packages.

Normally libcurl4-gnutls-dev or libcurl4-openssl-dev (which both provides /usr/lib/libcurl.so) would be installed automatically.

there seems to be /usr/lib/libcurl.so.x needed as well, which is not provided by libcurl4-gnutls-dev listed in the required package list.

[Maxim]

Installing libcurl4-gnutls-dev fixed the crash with 8.10final1svn17700-intrepid1.