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fabioamd87

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unable to start XBMC [solved]

I get this error:

[fabio@muletto ~]$ sudo systemctl status xbmc
xbmc.service - Starts instance of XBMC using xinit
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/xbmc.service; enabled)
   Active: inactive (dead) since Fri 2013-12-27 15:22:08 CET; 15s ago
  Process: 1941 ExecStart=/usr/bin/xinit /usr/bin/xbmc-standalone -l /run/lirc/lircd -- :0 -nolisten tcp (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 1941 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Dec 27 15:22:06 muletto xinit[1941]: Could not init logging classes. Permission errors on ~/.xbmc (/var/empty/.xbmc/temp/)
Dec 27 15:22:06 muletto xinit[1941]: ERROR: Unable to create application. Exiting
Dec 27 15:22:07 muletto xinit[1941]: Could not init logging classes. Permission errors on ~/.xbmc (/var/empty/.xbmc/temp/)
Dec 27 15:22:07 muletto xinit[1941]: ERROR: Unable to create application. Exiting
Dec 27 15:22:07 muletto xinit[1941]: Could not init logging classes. Permission errors on ~/.xbmc (/var/empty/.xbmc/temp/)
Dec 27 15:22:07 muletto xinit[1941]: ERROR: Unable to create application. Exiting
Dec 27 15:22:07 muletto xinit[1941]: XBMC has exited uncleanly 3 times in the last 1 seconds.
Dec 27 15:22:07 muletto xinit[1941]: Something is probably wrong
Dec 27 15:22:07 muletto xinit[1941]: /usr/bin/xinit: connection to X server lost
Dec 27 15:22:08 muletto xinit[1941]: waiting for X server to shut down (EE) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.

Last edited by fabioamd87 (2014-01-16 10:08:15)

graysky

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Re: unable to start XBMC [solved]

Please use code tags: https://bbs.archlinux.org/help.php#bbcode
What are the permissions of /var/lib/xbmc?  They should be xbmc:xbmc from memory so do:

sudo chown -R xbmc:xbmc /var/lib/xbmc

...no idea why it's referencing /var/empty

Last edited by graysky (2013-12-27 14:34:45)

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fabioamd87

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Re: unable to start XBMC [solved]

now the error changed:

[fabio@muletto ~]$ sudo systemctl status xbmc
xbmc.service - Starts instance of XBMC using xinit
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/xbmc.service; enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Fri 2013-12-27 20:36:41 CET; 3s ago
 Main PID: 10148 (xinit)
   CGroup: /system.slice/xbmc.service
           ââ10148 /usr/bin/xinit /usr/bin/xbmc-standalone -l /run/lirc/lircd -- :0 -nolisten tcp
           ââ10149 X :0 -nolisten tcp
           ââ10176 /bin/sh /usr/bin/xbmc-standalone -l /run/lirc/lircd
           ââ10285 /bin/sh /usr/bin/xbmc --standalone -l /run/lirc/lircd
           ââ10310 /usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin --standalone -l /run/lirc/lircd

Dec 27 20:36:42 muletto xinit[10148]: > Warning:          Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols
Dec 27 20:36:42 muletto xinit[10148]: >                   Ignoring extra symbols
Dec 27 20:36:42 muletto xinit[10148]: Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
Dec 27 20:36:42 muletto xinit[10148]: JOYSTICK: DebugLevel set to 0
Dec 27 20:36:43 muletto xinit[10148]: Home directory not accessible: Permission denied
Dec 27 20:36:44 muletto xinit[10148]: Home directory not accessible: Permission denied
Dec 27 20:36:44 muletto xinit[10148]: ERROR: Unable to create application. Exiting
Dec 27 20:36:44 muletto xinit[10148]: Home directory not accessible: Permission denied
Dec 27 20:36:44 muletto xinit[10148]: Home directory not accessible: Permission denied
Dec 27 20:36:44 muletto xinit[10148]: ERROR: Unable to create application. Exiting

solved by editing xbmc.service and putting user: fabio, group: users

Last edited by fabioamd87 (2014-01-16 10:07:57)