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aetherh4cker

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Registered: 2015-05-12

Posts: 10

LightDM / PulseAudio / Kodi Crash On Startup

Arch Community,

Could you please take a look at these and see if you're spotting anything I'm not?  I'm a little new to linux, but I've spent hours troubleshooting and researching this issue, and it's still annoying me.

I have a dedicated Kodi / XBMC machine.  It uses LightDM to autologin to Kodi.  This is a fresh install with only a few tweaks make to configuration.

Kodi (or maybe LightDM) crashes on startup every time I boot the computer, however, the application restarts on it's own and seems fine a few seconds later.

Here are my log files.

journalctl -b:  http://fpaste.org/227273/
kodi crash:  http://fpaste.org/227274/
xsession-errors:  http://fpaste.org/227275/

journalctl shows kodi crash on line 1310.

I'm mostly trying to stop Kodi from crashing.  But also, those references to PulseAudio in xsession-errors are bothering me.  I don't use PulseAudio.  Don't even have it installed.  Sound works fine in Kodi using, I assume, Alsa.

Anyone have any tips?

weust

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Registered: 2015-05-07

Posts: 3

Re: LightDM / PulseAudio / Kodi Crash On Startup

I have the exact same thing. What's weird too is that the first start of Kodi shows a time in am/pm (I think) and when it crashes and restarts it shows the correct time and in the correct timezone.

I haven't looked into it, but I though I had a old .xinit or xsession file left from when I was setting things up that might still be used too.
But reading your topic it seems I'm not the only one.

Btw: your links to the logs don't exist anymore. Better paste them directly here?

Last edited by weust (2015-07-09 10:32:25)

weust

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Registered: 2015-05-07

Posts: 3

Re: LightDM / PulseAudio / Kodi Crash On Startup

This gets even more annoying when using the Pulse Eight HDMI-CEC adapter.
Mine is the internal one for the Intel NUC.

When I select the HDMI input on my TV, the NUC will boot.
But when Kodi/LightDM crashes, it reverts back to the previous TV input.
Selecting the input on the TV again shuts the NUC down...

Not cool...