[old] Unofficial semi-nightly build FAQ/info/issues (here for archival purposes)

Mhh played a bit with project settings but didn't get the symbols into the crash logs. Even compiling the Debug target didn't make this work. Could this be a "feature" of the 4.2.x Apple iOS? *grml*.

Hello guys,
just wanted to report the problem I'm having with playback. The app crashes on all 1080P mkv movies at some point (about 60-80 seconds into a movie),
I also got it crashed on SD .mkv movie as well. Same error every time - frontrow can't allocate enough memory. Here is (hopefully) all required info for the debug.
If needed I can provide any additional info.

AppleTV2:
Darwin Apple-TV 11.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 11.0.0: Thu Feb 10 21:46:56 PST 2011; root:xnu-1735.46~2/RELEASE_ARM_S5L8930X AppleTV2,1 arm K66AP Darwin

OS version: 4.3.1 (OS 8F202, IR 01.28, iBoot 1072.59)
S/W version:4.2.1 / 2100

XBMC PRE-11.0 Git:20110430-f5e64e6 (Compiled : May 2 2011)

Installed with dpkg -i latest_atv2.deb from http://hadm.net/~keith/xbmc_atv2/latest_atv2.deb on May 3rd.

Logs:

SD movie:
xbmc.log - http://pastebin.com/H0n231w0
syslog - http://pastebin.com/fKy6xBYP
crashreport - http://pastebin.com/8YCNxpUg
mediainfo - http://pastebin.com/tZ40xfY6

1080P movie:
xbmc.log - http://pastebin.com/YyCTi02J
syslog - http://pastebin.com/FG1GdNms
crashreport - http://pastebin.com/3ijH2aay
mediainfo - http://pastebin.com/hZdiwg00

Just in case extra pkgs installed:
Name Version Description
+++-=========================-=========================-==================================================================
ii com.nito 0-1 nitoTV APT Signing Key
ii com.nito.gs 0.1-3 Mobile substrate tweak that fixes the green screen problem on rebo
ii com.nito.nitotv 0.6.7-1 New and improved installer including package queues, weather, RSS,
ii cydia 1.0.3366-1 graphical iPhone front-end for APT
ii cydia-sources 0-11 recommended third party repositories
ii org.awkwardtv 0-1 AwkwardTV APT Signing Key
ii org.xbmc.repo 0-1 xbmc for AppleTV 2 repository
ii org.xbmc.xbmc-atv2 10.0-7 XBMC Multimedia Center for AppleTV 2
ii org.xbmc.xbmc-seatbeltunl 1.0-2 XBMC tweeks, removes seatbelt

Thanks,
Alex

@_api_, very nice report. I wish everyone would take this as an example when posting.

Someone is trying to allocate an insane amount of memory.

9409 May 4 15:08:41 Apple-TV com.apple.frontrow[302]: AppleTV(302,0x66a2000) malloc: *** mmap(size=779431936) failed (error code=12)

779431936 (decimal) in hex is 0x2E753000 which looks like memory pointer.

This will be tricky to find. To catch it, would have to disable watchdog, install gdb, attach gdb to the AppleTV pid, run xbmc and when it crashes, it will crash into gdb when you can then do a backtrace all to see why.

Maybe I'm blind, but I was wondering if there are dev environment setup steps for developing XBMC for Apple TV 2gen. I see other environments on the wiki but not that: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=XBMC_development Or maybe I should just follow Mac instructions? http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=XBMC_for_Mac Please update or throw me a clue Thanks!

kevin71246 Wrote:Maybe I'm blind, but I was wondering if there are dev environment setup steps for developing XBMC for Apple TV 2gen. I see other environments on the wiki but not that: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=XBMC_development Or maybe I should just follow Mac instructions? http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=XBMC_for_Mac Please update or throw me a clue Thanks!

https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master/README.ios

Some things are wrong, use 'git clone https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc.git' instead of subversion but that's what I used. There's a thread I started calling 'trying to build ATV2' thats old but has some useful info. good luck.

Guys,
It seems the subtitles addon script no longer works in this build (nightly May 2nd), it was working fine in the previous build. I get script failed when i try to run subtitles on a movie.

Here is what i see:

22:33:20 T:162246656 M:132325376 DEBUG: ### [XBMC Subtitles] - Version: 2.4.6
22:33:21 T:94466048 M:132366336 DEBUG: CAnnouncementManager - Announcement: PlaybackPaused from xbmc
22:33:21 T:94466048 M:132366336 DEBUG: GOT ANNOUNCEMENT, type: 1, from xbmc, message PlaybackPaused
22:33:21 T:94466048 M:132366336 DEBUG: ------ Window Init (DialogSeekBar.xml) ------
22:33:22 T:162246656 M:131850240 INFO: Loading skin includes from
22:33:22 T:162246656 M:131850240 INFO: Error loading includes.xml file (): Failed to open file (row=0, col=0)
22:33:22 T:162246656 M:131850240 INFO: -->Python script returned the following error<--
22:33:22 T:162246656 M:131850240 ERROR: Error Type: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>
22:33:22 T:162246656 M:131850240 ERROR: Error Contents: XML File for Window is missing
22:33:22 T:162246656 M:131846144 ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/addons/script.xbmc.subtitles/default.py", line 25, in <module>
ui = gui.GUI( "script-XBMC-Subtitles-main.xml" , __cwd__ , "Default")
TypeError: XML File for Window is missing
22:33:22 T:162246656 M:131846144 INFO: -->End of Python script error report<--
22:33:22 T:162246656 M:131846144 INFO: Python script stopped
22:33:22 T:162246656 M:131846144 DEBUG: Thread Python Thread 162246656 terminating
22:33:22 T:94466048 M:131846144 DEBUG: waiting for python thread 50 to stop
22:33:22 T:94466048 M:131854336 DEBUG: python thread 50 destructed

Regards,

keith Wrote:https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master/README.ios

Some things are wrong, use 'git clone https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc.git' instead of subversion but that's what I used. There's a thread I started calling 'trying to build ATV2' thats old but has some useful info. good luck.

README.ios does correctly refer to git rather than subversion.
I followed the instructions and all was correct for me.

R0MSTER Wrote:Guys,
It seems the subtitles addon script no longer works in this build (nightly May 2nd), it was working fine in the previous build. I get script failed when i try to run subtitles on a movie.

Here is what i see:

22:33:20 T:162246656 M:132325376 DEBUG: ### [XBMC Subtitles] - Version: 2.4.6
22:33:21 T:94466048 M:132366336 DEBUG: CAnnouncementManager - Announcement: PlaybackPaused from xbmc
22:33:21 T:94466048 M:132366336 DEBUG: GOT ANNOUNCEMENT, type: 1, from xbmc, message PlaybackPaused
22:33:21 T:94466048 M:132366336 DEBUG: ------ Window Init (DialogSeekBar.xml) ------
22:33:22 T:162246656 M:131850240 INFO: Loading skin includes from
22:33:22 T:162246656 M:131850240 INFO: Error loading includes.xml file (): Failed to open file (row=0, col=0)
22:33:22 T:162246656 M:131850240 INFO: -->Python script returned the following error<--
22:33:22 T:162246656 M:131850240 ERROR: Error Type: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>
22:33:22 T:162246656 M:131850240 ERROR: Error Contents: XML File for Window is missing
22:33:22 T:162246656 M:131846144 ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/addons/script.xbmc.subtitles/default.py", line 25, in <module>
ui = gui.GUI( "script-XBMC-Subtitles-main.xml" , __cwd__ , "Default")
TypeError: XML File for Window is missing
22:33:22 T:162246656 M:131846144 INFO: -->End of Python script error report<--
22:33:22 T:162246656 M:131846144 INFO: Python script stopped
22:33:22 T:162246656 M:131846144 DEBUG: Thread Python Thread 162246656 terminating
22:33:22 T:94466048 M:131846144 DEBUG: waiting for python thread 50 to stop
22:33:22 T:94466048 M:131854336 DEBUG: python thread 50 destructed

I did some research on the bug and it looks like Windows people are affected too, this commit though for Windows resolved it, so probably AppleTV needs the same loving
https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/40fe...1a26e3c540

Regards,

I'm having problems to play mp3 files via SMB or DLNA

The OSD shows up but freezes at 0:01 play time. I tried with several files.

I'm using the last nightly (May 2nd)

AppleTV: 4.3 build 8F202

Darwin AppleTV 11.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 11.0.0: Thu Feb 10 21:46:56 PST 2011; root:xnu-1735.46~2/RELEASE_ARM_S5L8930X AppleTV2,1 arm K66AP Darwin

XBMC Log:
http://pastebin.com/GRnzxCDf

Any ideas? Or what else could I check? Where to get more Logging information?

Same issue here

I find that if i press play, pause then play again the music will play... all songs in the existing list will work (select any song in list/skip to next) - if I select a new subset, I find I need to do the play/pause/play again.

Hope this helps with troubleshooting