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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Q&A Forum => Topic started by: cURIOUSgEORGE on September 13, 2012, 02:25:14 AM

Title: XBMC won't load.
Post by: cURIOUSgEORGE on September 13, 2012, 02:25:14 AM

I downloaded xbmc and it shows up in my menu, but, when I click on it nothing happens, and if I type xbmc in the terminal nothing happens at all, what so ever, in any which way, shape, or form.

I am running the latest and greatest Tinycore with Xorg.

Everything else works like a lucky charm, just not xbmc.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, George.

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: bmarkus on September 13, 2012, 02:34:56 AM

Quote from: cURIOUSgEORGE on September 13, 2012, 02:25:14 AM

I am running the latest and greatest Tinycore with Xorg.

Please specify exact TC version instead of saying latest :(

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: cURIOUSgEORGE on September 13, 2012, 02:40:15 AM

Gotcha. For future references.

I am running version 4.6 and I just realized that I am wrong, because, 4.6.1 is the latest and greatest at the current moment.

I am running Tinycore version 4.6

Thanks, George.

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: Arslan S. on September 13, 2012, 02:53:16 AM

check for missing dependencies by running xbmc in a terminal

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: cURIOUSgEORGE on September 13, 2012, 03:15:07 AM

I tried that, and when I did, nothing happened at all, BUT, when I exit to prompt and type xbmc, it says....... . .

"XBMC needs hardware accelerated OpenGL rendering.
Install an appropriate graphics driver."

So I downloaded xf86-video-all.tcz to ensure that I have the correct driver, but what OpenGL extension do I need?

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: tinypoodle on September 13, 2012, 03:52:01 AM

I don't think output of trying to run XBMC outside of X would be of much relevance...

You could try:
ldd `which appname` |grep not

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: cURIOUSgEORGE on September 13, 2012, 03:55:49 AM

Okay, I just tried that, and it says no such file or directory.

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: Arslan S. on September 13, 2012, 04:38:18 AM

you need hardware accelerated graphics drivers and direct rendering enabled

check for

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lspci | grep VGA
and

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glxinfo | grep rendering

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: cURIOUSgEORGE on September 13, 2012, 04:48:25 AM

lspci | grep VGA

I get........ "00:02.0 VGA compatable controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)"

glxinfo | grep rendering

I get........... "direct rendering: Yes"

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: Rich on September 13, 2012, 08:17:14 AM

Hi cURIOUSgEORGE
Do you have xbmc installed  ondemand  by any chance?

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: Arslan S. on September 13, 2012, 08:21:47 AM

load bash and try again please

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: cURIOUSgEORGE on September 13, 2012, 08:56:48 AM

@Rich, I have XBMC in onboot, and I double checked just for my own sanity.

@Arslan I just downloaded Bash.tcz and have that in onboot aswell. I'm not sure what it does, but I am guessing that it is automatically loaded after I downloaded under onboot? IDK.

It is as if XBMC does not even exist on my machine, but, it does.

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: Rich on September 13, 2012, 09:15:34 AM

Hi cURIOUSgEORGE
If you run:

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hash -r
xbmcDoes it start then?

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: cURIOUSgEORGE on September 13, 2012, 11:29:10 AM

No. I'm sorry to say, but no. Still nothing.

It is what it is, I guess. No biggie. Just sucks, eh...

I appreciate all the help though, and for trying, but, I don't see this going anywhere.

I wonder if anybody else has it working.

Thanks again, George...... and I'm out.

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: Arslan S. on September 14, 2012, 02:12:06 AM

xbmc is working on my system

here is what we can do to debug with xbmc messages

change log level to 3

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cat > ~/.xbmc/userdata/advancedsettings.xml << EOF
<advancedsettings>
<loglevel>3</loglevel>
</advancedsettings>
EOF
start xbmc and post xbmc.log
it is under ~/.xbmc/temp/

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: Rich on September 14, 2012, 08:56:35 AM

Hi cURIOUSgEORGE
If you open a terminal and type the full path:

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usr/local/bin/xbmcdoes it start then?

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: cURIOUSgEORGE on September 14, 2012, 10:23:18 AM

@ Arslan S. ............. I have ~/.xbmc/temp/ but there is no log in there, the folder is empty. Must I be logged in as root in order too see it? I will try that and post back IF it is there within minutes.

EDIT: @Arslan S. ... I am posting back to avoid confusing, and to confirm once again that there is no log file. There is however, another empty "temp" folder inside "the" temp folder. Like this -> /home/tc/.xbmc/temp/temp and I just thought that was unnecessarily strange. Perhaps there was a problem when I downloaded it? Idk.


@Rich ................ I tried it, but, no, still nothing.

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: Rich on September 14, 2012, 11:13:39 AM

Hi cURIOUSgEORGE
If you enter:

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ls -l usr/local/bin/xbmcwhat response do you get?

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: cURIOUSgEORGE on September 14, 2012, 11:18:17 AM

Hi, Rich

I get "ls: usr/local/bin/xbmc: No such file or drirectory"

But it is there, I seen it with my own eyes, just a minute ago. I'm thinking about uninstalling xbmc and reinstalling, whaddaya think?

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: Rich on September 14, 2012, 11:24:25 AM

Hi cURIOUSgEORGE
My mistake, that should have been:

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ls -l /usr/local/bin/xbmc Also, what does:

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echo $PATHgive as a response?

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: cURIOUSgEORGE on September 14, 2012, 11:36:13 AM

tc@box:~$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/xbmc
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            35 Sep 14 11:21 /usr/local/bin/xbmc -> /tmp/tcloop/xbmc/usr/local/bin/xbmc
tc@box:~$ echo $PATH
/home/tc/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/apps/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/etc/sysconfig/tcedir/ondemand

Does that mean it's in ondemand? Or it thinks it is? wtf... hmmmm because it's in onboot. Well, it's showing under onboot in the appbrowser.

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: cURIOUSgEORGE on September 14, 2012, 01:16:03 PM

@Arslan S. ........... I just found the crash logs, for some reason they were located under /home/tc, sitting scattered at the bottom, they were not in the xbmc folder, idk why. Anyhow, here is the latest................



############## XBMC CRASH LOG ###############

################ SYSTEM INFO ################
 Date: Thu Sep 13 06:22:02 UTC 2012
 XBMC Options:
 Arch: i686
 Kernel: Linux 3.0.21-tinycore #3021 SMP Sat Feb 18 11:54:11 EET 2012
 Release:
    Tiny Core Linux 4.6
############## END SYSTEM INFO ##############

############### STACK TRACE #################
gdb not installed, can't get stack trace.
############# END STACK TRACE ###############

################# LOG FILE ##################

Logfile not found in the usual place.
Please attach it seperately.
Use pastebin.com or similar for forums or IRC.

############### END LOG FILE ################

############ END XBMC CRASH LOG #############

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: Rich on September 14, 2012, 02:02:08 PM

Hi cURIOUSgEORGE
Your path and the link to the executable seem to be OK.

Quote

Does that mean it's in ondemand?

No, that's in the path to check ondemand if something can't be found in paths to the left of it.
The  SYSTEM INFO  is dated yesterday. Could it be leftover from when you exited to a prompt and tried to run it?

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: cURIOUSgEORGE on September 14, 2012, 02:15:28 PM

I noticed that too (the SYSTEM INFO).... So, I repeatedly just checked back too see if anymore logs have been created after attempting to start XBMC, but they haven't. Idk, what else to do, but I did a simple Google search using (xbmc won't start) and I see many people having or have had the same issue - under all different types of circumstances though. Idk, it's mind boggling.

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: Rich on September 14, 2012, 02:20:40 PM

Hi cURIOUSgEORGE
It's odd that you simply get no response, like your command is going to the bit bucket. Running out of ideas, but:

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/tmp/tcloop/xbmc/usr/local/bin/xbmc
ldd /tmp/tcloop/xbmc/usr/local/bin/xbmcMaybe one of those will elicit a response?

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: cURIOUSgEORGE on September 14, 2012, 02:39:27 PM

/tmp/tcloop/xbmc/usr/local/bin/xbmc    <--- does nothing.



tc@box:~$ ldd /tmp/tcloop/xbmc/usr/local/xbmc
/tmp/tcloop/xbmc/usr/local/xbmc: error while loading shared libraries: /tmp/tcloop/xbmc/usr/local/xbmc: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

EDIT: I just checked that path, and it only goes as far as -> /tmp/tcloop/xbmc/usr/local WITHOUT ended as it should, with "xbmc."

I am going too just uninstall and try to reinstall, if that doesn't work then I'll just have too use xbmcbuntu.

I'll let ya know how it goes, thanks again Rich.

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: Rich on September 14, 2012, 02:47:52 PM

Hi cURIOUSgEORGE
That error message suggests that it does not exist. If you enter:

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ls -l /tmp/tcloop/xbmc/usr/local/bin/xbmc
ls -l /tmp/tcloop/xbmc/usr/local/bin/are the file or directory found?

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: cURIOUSgEORGE on September 14, 2012, 03:31:44 PM

I just uninstalled and reinstalled, same problem.........

tc@box:~$ ls -l /tmp/tcloop/xbmc/usr/local/bin/xbmc
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          4420 Jun  8 10:21 /tmp/tcloop/xbmc/usr/local/bin/xbmc


tc@box:~$ ls -l /tmp/tcloop/xbmc/usr/local/bin/
total 7
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root            43 Jun  8 10:21 lsb_release
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          4420 Jun  8 10:21 xbmc
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          1810 Jun  8 10:21 xbmc-standalone

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: Rich on September 14, 2012, 04:05:25 PM

Hi cURIOUSgEORGE
Sorry, at this point I'm at a loss. Maybe someone else has some ideas.

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: cURIOUSgEORGE on September 14, 2012, 04:24:07 PM

That's completely understandable Rich, I expected you to give up by now anyhow, but, you didn't, you kept on trying too help, and help and help, and for that, I am grateful...

I'll just have to use xbmcbuntu, it is what it is... it's just for a notebook, all of my other computers will always use Tinycore, because, it's the greatest. Long live the core.

Take care, I'm outta here.

Thanks again, George.

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: Rich on September 14, 2012, 04:49:56 PM

Hi cURIOUSgEORGE

Quote

I expected you to give up by now anyhow, but, you didn't, you kept on trying too help, and help and help,

Yeah, I can be pretty stubborn at times.

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: whoisterence on January 17, 2013, 05:52:42 AM

I can also get XBMC compiled but not execute. 

when I call xbmc, I can see that it runs the bash script in /usr/local/bin/xbmc all the way to the line where it runs /usr/local/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin here

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LOOP=1
while [ $(( $LOOP )) = "1" ]
do
  echo $LOOP $SAVED_ARGS
  LOOP=0
  echo run
  "$LIBDIR/xbmc/xbmc.bin" $SAVED_ARGS
  RET=$?
  echo $LOOP $SAVED_ARGS RET=$RET
  if [ $(( $RET == 65 )) = "1" ]
  then # User requested to restart app
    LOOP=1
  elif [ $(( ($RET >= 131 && $RET <= 136) || $RET == 139 )) = "1" ]
  then # Crashed with core dump
    print_crash_report
  fi

which outputs:
1
run

But since xbmc.bin doesn't crash it just hangs there, I can't even find the log file in /home/tc

I can spend some time to dig into the XBMC source, but I wonder if there's a way to do this without putting fprintf in the code and recompiling (since xbmc has a lot of dependencies, compiling it is a pain) to find the cupid?

xbmc.cpp

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int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
  int status = -1;
  //this can't be set from CAdvancedSettings::Initialize() because it will overwrite
  //the loglevel set with the --debug flag
#ifdef _DEBUG
  g_advancedSettings.m_logLevel     = LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG;
  g_advancedSettings.m_logLevelHint = LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG;
#else
  g_advancedSettings.m_logLevel     = LOG_LEVEL_NORMAL;
  g_advancedSettings.m_logLevelHint = LOG_LEVEL_NORMAL;
#endif
  CLog::SetLogLevel(g_advancedSettings.m_logLevel);

#ifdef _LINUX
#if defined(DEBUG)
  struct rlimit rlim;
  rlim.rlim_cur = rlim.rlim_max = RLIM_INFINITY;
  if (setrlimit(RLIMIT_CORE, &rlim) == -1)
    CLog::Log(LOGDEBUG, "Failed to set core size limit (%s)", strerror(errno));
#endif
  // Prevent child processes from becoming zombies on exit if not waited upon. See also Util::Command
  struct sigaction sa;
  memset(&sa, 0, sizeof(sa));

  sa.sa_flags = SA_NOCLDWAIT;
  sa.sa_handler = SIG_IGN;
  sigaction(SIGCHLD, &sa, NULL);
#endif
  setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "C");
  g_advancedSettings.Initialize();
 
#ifndef _WIN32
  CAppParamParser appParamParser;
  appParamParser.Parse((const char **)argv, argc);
#endif
  g_application.Preflight();
  if (!g_application.Create())
  {
    fprintf(stderr, "ERROR: Unable to create application. Exiting\n");
    return status;
  }

  try
  {
    status = g_application.Run();
  }
  catch(...)
  {
    fprintf(stderr, "ERROR: Exception caught on main loop. Exiting\n");
    status = -1;
  }

  return status;
}


Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: curaga on January 17, 2013, 06:22:45 AM

Usually you'd use strace to see how far it gets.

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: Rich on January 17, 2013, 08:40:42 AM

Hi whoisterence
I don't know if it's relevant, but:

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echo $LOOP $SAVED_ARGS

Quote

which outputs:
1
run

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"$LIBDIR/xbmc/xbmc.bin" $SAVED_ARGSYou are passing an empty string to  xmbc.bin.

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: whoisterence on January 17, 2013, 09:13:35 PM

Did the strace, attached.

Looks like xbmc scaned for hard drives and for some reason scan for an empty filename, and then it loops forever.

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stat64("/dev/sr14", 0xbfc3ced4)         = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/dev/sr15", 0xbfc3ced4)         = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/dev/sr16", 0xbfc3ced4)         = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/dev/sr17", 0xbfc3ced4)         = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/dev/sr18", 0xbfc3ced4)         = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/dev/sr19", 0xbfc3ced4)         = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/dev/sr20", 0xbfc3ced4)         = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/dev/sr21", 0xbfc3ced4)         = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/dev/sr22", 0xbfc3ced4)         = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/dev/sr23", 0xbfc3ced4)         = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/dev/sr24", 0xbfc3ced4)         = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/dev/sr25", 0xbfc3ced4)         = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/dev/sr26", 0xbfc3ced4)         = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/dev/sr27", 0xbfc3ced4)         = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64(" \t\n\r", 0xbfc3ced4)           = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64(" \t\n\r", 0xbfc3ced4)           = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64(" \t\n\r", 0xbfc3ced4)           = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64(" \t\n\r", 0xbfc3ced4)           = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64(" \t\n\r", 0xbfc3ced4)           = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64(" \t\n\r", 0xbfc3ced4)           = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64(" \t\n\r", 0xbfc3ced4)           = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64(" \t\n\r", 0xbfc3ced4)           = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64(" \t\n\r", 0xbfc3ced4)           = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64(" \t\n\r", 0xbfc3ced4)           = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64(" \t\n\r", 0xbfc3ced4)           = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64(" \t\n\r", 0xbfc3ced4)           = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

Attached ls /dev

Maybe this has something to do with all the loopbacks in /dev?

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: Arslan S. on January 18, 2013, 03:17:09 AM

xbmc is available in the repository
if you want to compile it see tc-ext-tools

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: whoisterence on January 18, 2013, 05:33:16 AM

I tried to run it from xbmc.tcz before and it hanged just like the problems mentioned in this thread, which I believe is the same issue here.

I am looking at xbmc source now.  Found for some reason I needed to copy these two files
/usr/local/share/xbmc/userdata/RssFeeds.xml > ~/.xbmc/userdata
/usr/local/share/xbmc/userdata/LCD.xml > ~/.xbmc/userdata

After copying I got further and now have a xbmc.log file, I am guessing that I got to the point where the log file can be flushed.

I believe the problem is xbmc not resolving some internal file paths properly due to /usr/share/xbmc is located in /usr/local/share.

But now it's looking for a guisettings.xml file that's probably dynamically generated....

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: coreplayer2 on January 18, 2013, 09:55:13 AM

I don't have any problems loading XBMC, but I do have issues running it in Xorg.  too much lag to be useable, mouse curser moves incredibly slowly and inputs from the keyboard also responds slowly if not frozen up.

just an FYI 

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: curaga on January 18, 2013, 03:13:25 PM

Seems XBMC has pretty bad code, using a lot of cpu to poll all devices:
https://lwn.net/Articles/532329/

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: coreplayer2 on January 18, 2013, 03:25:57 PM

It's a shame because it runs flawless in Windows and Mac's

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: curaga on January 18, 2013, 04:25:32 PM

Have you checked the cpu usage on those Windows and Macs? ;)

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: Arslan S. on January 18, 2013, 04:33:44 PM

If you load graphics drivers fps should be fine

Title: Re: XBMC won't load.
Post by: coreplayer2 on January 19, 2013, 01:03:12 AM

H'mmm  will investigate..  but iirc have tried already using the nvidia drivers with an nvidia graphics card, I probably didn't configure Xorg anyhow.

The Windows machine has two monitors, one a systems monitor and the other "the Big screen'  am not sure that cpu usage increased with XBMC,  can't be sure about the Mac though.   but will revisit both and report back