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Re: [Solved] XBMC won't start after system wide upgrade

A tip that will save you a lot of time next time (and which I unfortunately forgot): run ldd on the binary, check for references not being found. Always helps.

In fact, if you could be so kind to check ldd output again to confirm it contains libass, and check whether the xbmc package depends on it, and if the former is and the latter is not the case, file a bug report. The maintainer should get this fixed.

And also add [Solved] to your topic title please.

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adr3nal1n

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Registered: 2010-09-23

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Re: [Solved] XBMC won't start after system wide upgrade

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Have run ldd against /usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin and can confirm libass is a dependency. See below.

'ldd /usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin |grep libass' gives the following:

        libass.so.4 => /usr/lib/libass.so.4 (0x00007faa03f38000)

Note also that xbmc.bin was located at /opt/xbmc/xbmc.bin before the upgrade. (from xbmc 9.11-18 to xbmc 10.0-1)

Have marked post as [Solved]

I'll next look at filing a bug report as I have never tried this before.

Thanks again for all your help.

adr3nal1n

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Registered: 2010-09-23

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Re: [Solved] XBMC won't start after system wide upgrade

Have now filed bug report here https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/22186

kvn

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Registered: 2010-08-13

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Re: [Solved] XBMC won't start after system wide upgrade

Sorry for the bump after solved - but, I'm running the svn build right now in the AUR which revision is the final build, but I want to know does libmicrohttpd really work in the final build? We had to use an older build of it in the svn builds. You can test if it works by enabling the web interface. If not, we should file a bug report for that too.

Edit: Xbmc 10.0-1 works fine with libmicrohttpd.

I did have to manually install libass as it was missing after I uninstalled xbmc-svn and installed the binary package from community.

Last edited by kvn (2010-12-23 03:49:59)