Using Xorg-7.7-3d, the intel driver and with locale set, there is a several second pause, but then kodi runs without problems:
$ kodi
sh: lsb_release: not found
sh: lsb_release: not found
sh: lsb_release: not found
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
Edit: The above was without any audio configured, if I load alsa/pulseaudio and start dbus, kodi starts almost instantaneously.