Xbmc

ctarwater · 2009-04-26 17:03:18

ah, thanks.

I'm running openbox and didn't have gdk/kdm/xdm etc. installed as needed for hibernate etc. to work.
I installed gdm and everything worked fine as long as I logged in manually.

As soon as I edited inittab to autologin hibernate and suspend stop working - I get: "error is another session active? perhaps ssh?" and even "shutdown" doesn't function properly at that point, it only closes xbmc.

sheesh.

**edit
nevermind, should have checked the damned log first. It was just a hal/policykit thing.

Last edited by ctarwater (2009-04-26 17:48:37)

harbind · 2009-05-12 18:00:52

Xbmc was updated to version 9.04-1. First it couldn't find 'libpulse.so.0', I installed pulseaudio, then it couldn't find libcdio.so.10, so I installed libcdio.
But now it still fails to start and gives me:
usr/bin/xbmc: line 8: 15196 Segmentation fault /usr/share/xbmc/xbmc.bin "$@"

Any idea how to get over that?

haggy · 2009-05-12 18:51:49

Well, just the segfault can mean anything Do you run 64bit? If yes, you might want to have a look at xbmc-svn from AUR since it has some 64bit related fixes (i also run 64bit). One problem f.e. is xbmc awaiting libcurl in /usr/lib64 not /usr/lib, which leads to a segfault at startup.

harbind · 2009-05-12 20:17:11

haggy wrote:

Well, just the segfault can mean anything Do you run 64bit? If yes, you might want to have a look at xbmc-svn from AUR since it has some 64bit related fixes (i also run 64bit). One problem f.e. is xbmc awaiting libcurl in /usr/lib64 not /usr/lib, which leads to a segfault at startup.

Well what I have learned, segfault usually equals lazy coding Yes I'm running 64bit. I'll give a try to svn- version.

haggy · 2009-05-13 08:33:34

harbind wrote:

Well what I have learned, segfault usually equals lazy coding Yes I'm running 64bit. I'll give a try to svn- version.

Ykes, you wouldn't tell that those guys from xbmc I bet it is one of the 64bit issues, especially the libcurl-one.

harbind · 2009-05-13 21:55:10

First time I tried to build xbmc-svn it failed (something with Goom), but the second time it succeeded and it seems to work like a charm. Thanks haggy for your effort!

haggy · 2009-05-14 07:33:12

OK. Weirdly you are the third person to report that you had to build xbmc-svn twice to compile beyond the goom thingy. As for richy and me we cannot reproduce on our machines and every fix is just a shot in the dark unfortunately. Perhaps someone with more knowledge can propose a fix on this.

/Haggy.

V01D · 2009-05-15 03:15:17

Had the same problem with the segfault (x86_64). A
# ln -s /usr/lib64 /usr/lib
fixed it

WEIRD

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haggy · 2009-05-15 08:06:11

Yeah, but that's a rather masochistic fix if you ask me I'd rather patch the Makefile than symlinking system dirs, but if it works for you it's fine...

Laban · 2009-05-22 01:00:05

Hydroxide wrote:

[...]
There is however one problem I don't seem to tackle. The playing of DVD's:
When inserting a DVD, XBMC notifies the user that a hard disc (!) has been mounted. Upon checking the DVD is indeed mounted (/media/<dvd_label>). However, there is no mentioning of the availability of a DVD on the home screen of XBMC. When trying to play the DVD via the MOVIES menu item, XBMC complains that there is no disc.
My first thought was that I didn't set the privileges right. However, when running XBMC under root it behaves exactly the same.

I'm having the same problem here. Will try debug too... Did you find anything usefull?

Hydroxide · 2009-05-24 20:19:47

Laban wrote:

I'm having the same problem here. Will try debug too... Did you find anything usefull?

As of yet, I have not found a solution to the problem. I discussed the issue off-forum with some people but none of the offered solutions worked.

I'm not able to publish any debug-logs at the moment. Reason hereof is that I temporarily removed the DVD-reader from the XBMC-box.

bentzl · 2009-05-25 10:13:57

Since the last update yesterday i dont have any sound.
when i start xbmc from bash it says:

ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1008:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave

Any idea whats wrong here?

lkpgwada · 2009-05-31 13:58:12

Hello there, i had got the same problem and i found a workaround, maybe it's a little bit crapy but at last it work ;-) .
Just type that in a shell: "ln -s /usr/lib /usr/lib64" it will create a symbolic link /usr/lib64 with /usr/lib.

Hello from Gwadloup

Last edited by lkpgwada (2009-05-31 14:09:11)

haggy · 2009-05-31 17:11:49

bentzl wrote:

Since the last update yesterday i dont have any sound.
when i start xbmc from bash it says:
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1008:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
Any idea whats wrong here?

Maybe pulseaudio is blocking the device. kill the pulseserver and try again.

vr4b4c · 2009-06-01 13:42:00

Hi, here is also not compiling with Goom error, http://pastebin.com/d28f734eb
This my second try with xbmc-svn and pkgbuild from aur.. compiled on x86 todays system update...

Edit:
And second try with makepkg -s did make a packages, but why it fail first time at all? Is everything now compiled?

Last edited by vr4b4c (2009-06-01 14:51:12)

haggy · 2009-06-02 09:10:48

Yes, this issue is known. it somehow fails for some guys, but a second run usually fixes this.

vr4b4c · 2009-06-04 20:59:50

Hi,
Again probs, archlinux x86 update today 04.06.2009 22:52

checking for tzset... yes
checking for utime... yes
checking size of int... 0
checking size of size_t... configure: error: in `/home/USERNAME/xbmc-svn/src/XBMC':
configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (size_t)
See `config.log' for more details.
==> ERROR: Build Failed.
Aborting...

config.log

http://pastebin.com/m100eda24

haggy · 2009-06-04 21:13:25

vr4b4c: Please read the PKGBUILD comments on the AUR page of xbmc-svn or the dedicated thread of xbmc-svn. You have to run makepkg as root: sudo makepkg --asroot
Compilation will otherwise fail if you have nvidia's driver installed. Unfortunately there's no workaround for this until pacman 3.3 is out. Configuring in a fakeroot environment is known to fail with binaries linked against nvidia's libgl.

/Haggy

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jack.mitchell · 2009-06-26 13:40:48

Has anybody come across a solution to properly mount and play DVD's yet, I'm having the same problems as everyone else.

Cheers,
Jack

DonVla · 2009-06-26 14:39:01

jack.mitchell wrote:

Has anybody come across a solution to properly mount and play DVD's yet, I'm having the same problems as everyone else.
Cheers,
Jack

me too !!!

Ulle · 2009-06-29 08:44:54

bentzl wrote:

Since the last update yesterday i dont have any sound.
when i start xbmc from bash it says:
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1008:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
Any idea whats wrong here?

I am having same symptoms here (on a OpenSuSE 10.3 though) with fresh compiled xbmc (yesterday).

I can hear the short sounds when switching menu items, but no sound with music and videos ("Check audio settings" message instead).

When I run
lsof -n | grep "dev/snd"
while xbmc running, I get 3 processes xbmc.bin and 1 process dbus-daemon .

After quiting xbmc and doing the lsof check again there is still the dbus-daemon process accessing (and blocking) the sound device. I can not play any sounds then (ffplay etc) - getting the "unable to open slave" error.

My (dirty) solution currently is to prevent xbmc from starting the dbus-daemon. Since I am running xbmc as a non-root user, I just took off the exec mode for others from /bin/dbus-daemon (it is 754 now). Now sounds work as expected to me.

Dont know if this is a bug in xbmc or just a misconfiguration or missing/wrong version of related packets . My alsa version is somewhat 1.0.14 (so definitely with dmix plugin activated).
Maybe someone has better idea how to solve this.

Schöngruß
Ulle

Revelation60 · 2010-12-04 16:02:04

I have the same problem: no sound in music and video but the clicking sound in the menus work fine. I don't have pulseaudio or other stuff, I just have alsa.

edit - console output:

ALSA lib pcm.c:7245:(snd_pcm_recover) underrun occured
ALSA lib pcm.c:2211:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM

Last edited by Revelation60 (2010-12-04 16:03:29)

.:B:. · 2010-12-04 16:34:45

The last post in this thread is almost 18 months old. The topic has long served its purpose - the software in question is in [extra] now, thus rendering this topic redundant.

I suggest you read the forum rules about bumping dead or presently irrelevant topics. Feel free to open a new topic for your problem.

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