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th3voic3

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Registered: 2012-03-20

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Kodi segmentation faults after recent update

Hi,

Kodi started seg faulting for me recently.
If I remove the .kodi folder kodi starts again, but I would like to recover from this without loosing data if possible.

The crash log is here: https://pastebin.com/dQy8YHnv

I can't see any real reason in there why it would be crashing.

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Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

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Re: Kodi segmentation faults after recent update

There are a lot of warnings and errors in that log file. Some of them are interesting:

2021-03-09 11:08:50.967 T:13497   ERROR <general>: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 404 for https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Pati/repo/master/addons.xml.md5:
2021-03-09 11:08:50.967 T:13497   ERROR <general>: Open - <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Pati/repo/master/addons.xml.md5> failed to open
2021-03-09 11:08:50.967 T:13497   ERROR <general>: CRepository: failed read 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Pati/repo/master/addons.xml.md5'

Something is broken. Maybe the repo doesn't exist?

2021-03-09 11:08:49.647 T:13433 WARNING <general>: Pulseaudio module module-allow-passthrough not loaded - opening PT devices might fail

Have you recently done anything with pulseaudio? Something like switching to PipeWire?

To be honest, this looks like some addon isn't working anymore. Options:

- make a backup of your .xbmc folder, downgrade Kodi, turn off all addons, upgrade Kodi again, turn off the addons one by one and wait for Kodi to crap itself
- go through the old .kodi folder and copy/diff the settings to the new profile. This is my recommendation, as it teaches a lot about the .kodi folder. YMMV.

CarbonChauvinist

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Registered: 2012-06-16

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Re: Kodi segmentation faults after recent update

There's been a rash a threads about this recently, e.g.

AFAICT looks like Kodi switched from python2 to python3 and in the process a lot of addons are no longer working/need to be revised.

Last edited by CarbonChauvinist (2021-03-09 11:36:38)

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Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

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Re: Kodi segmentation faults after recent update

This had to happen at some point. It looks like I chose a lucky update to migrate my Kodi setup to another machine and start fresh while I was at it. Phew.

EDIT: With Kodi and Nextcloud, the two pillars of my home entertainment and file management have crapped themselves in rapid succession. I'd complain, hadn't things worked so well for so long without more than a few edits.

Last edited by Awebb (2021-03-09 11:42:31)

th3voic3

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Registered: 2012-03-20

Posts: 92

Re: Kodi segmentation faults after recent update

Turned out that for me it was a skin I had installed. Removed the corresponding folder and it worked again.

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