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zerostar

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From: Phoenix, AZ

Registered: 2009-06-18

Posts: 9

XBMC launches to black screen on Frodo beta2 [Solved]

I recently replaced my secondary media storage drive from a 740GB to a 3TB. I formatted the new drive, moved over my media and now for some reason XBMC launches to a black screen.

15:54:17 T:140614710753216  NOTICE: -----------------------------------------------------------------------
15:54:17 T:140614710753216  NOTICE: Starting XBMC (12.0-BETA2 Git:20121202-e513b8b), Platform: Linux (Arch Linux, 3.6.8-1-ARCH x86_64). Built on Dec  3 2012
15:54:17 T:140614710753216  NOTICE: special://xbmc/ is mapped to: /usr/share/xbmc
15:54:17 T:140614710753216  NOTICE: special://xbmcbin/ is mapped to: /usr/lib/xbmc
15:54:17 T:140614710753216  NOTICE: special://masterprofile/ is mapped to: /home/xbmc/.xbmc/userdata
15:54:17 T:140614710753216  NOTICE: special://home/ is mapped to: /home/xbmc/.xbmc
15:54:17 T:140614710753216  NOTICE: special://temp/ is mapped to: /home/xbmc/.xbmc/temp
15:54:17 T:140614710753216  NOTICE: The executable running is: /usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin
15:54:17 T:140614710753216  NOTICE: Local hostname: DELL-P4
15:54:17 T:140614710753216  NOTICE: Log File is located: /home/xbmc/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.log
15:54:17 T:140614710753216  NOTICE: -----------------------------------------------------------------------
15:54:17 T:140614710753216   DEBUG: ConsoleKit.Manager: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown - The name org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit was not provided by any .service files
15:54:17 T:140614710753216   DEBUG: Previous line repeats 1 times.
15:54:17 T:140614710753216   DEBUG: DeviceKit.Power: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown - The name org.freedesktop.DeviceKit.Disks was not provided by any .service files
15:54:18 T:140614710753216    INFO: Selected UPower as PowerSyscall

That's as far as I get. I've been doing some searching and reading but I can't seem to figure out what has happened.

I'm not using the service file to launch XBMC either. Rather I'm following this and this

Last edited by zerostar (2012-12-04 19:48:06)

elisiano

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Registered: 2012-04-27

Posts: 5

Re: XBMC launches to black screen on Frodo beta2 [Solved]

I have the same issue.

I asked a question as a comment of this https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/1801 but I'm not 100% sure it's related.

Cheers, Elisiano

zerostar

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From: Phoenix, AZ

Registered: 2009-06-18

Posts: 9

Re: XBMC launches to black screen on Frodo beta2 [Solved]

Just out of sheer frustration I figured I enable the testing repos and see if any updates there would fix my problem. I updated the with the testing repo and it pulled in a new dbus package that apparently fixed my problem. I'm marking this solved.

elisiano

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Registered: 2012-04-27

Posts: 5

Re: XBMC launches to black screen on Frodo beta2 [Solved]

Hi zerostar,
    I don't know if it was exactly the dbus package to solve your problem. I installed just that from the testing and I still have the same symptom.

I also recompiled the xbmc-git package from AUR but no luck.

elisiano

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Registered: 2012-04-27

Posts: 5

Re: XBMC launches to black screen on Frodo beta2 [Solved]

OK just to confirm that enabling the testing repository solved the problem for me as well.

These were the updated packages (excluding dbus which I manually upgraded before enabling the repo):

Targets (18): device-mapper-2.02.98-3  filesystem-2012.12-1  isl-0.11-1  libpulse-2.99.2-1  libquvi-0.4.1-2  libssh2-1.4.3-1  linux-3.6.9-1
              linux-headers-3.6.9-1  lua-5.2.1-2  lua51-5.1.5-3  lvm2-2.02.98-3  mkinitcpio-0.12.0-1  nmap-6.25-2  pulseaudio-2.99.2-1  talloc-2.0.8-1
              vlc-2.0.4-5  xorg-server-1.13.0.901-1  xorg-server-common-1.13.0.901-1

It might be any of those but most likely could be either the kernel or xorg-server* (just for future reference).

Cheers, Elisiano