xbmc wont start

TheCrow33 · 01-11-2011, 02:37 PM

I'm running slack 64 13.1 and to this point I've been running the latest gnome slack build. I've been trying to install xbmc though, as this box is only going to act as a media center. I downloaded the slackbuild for xbmc and all the required and optional dependencies listed in the slackbuild. Installed all the slackbuilds for the dependencies (optional ones and required ones) with no problems, then installed the xbmc slackbuild with no problems.

First I tried to start xbmc from within gnome (This was my fault for not noticing it was a desktop manager in itself). This killed X which quickly restarted back to the gdm login window. So then I restarted without starting gdm on startup, and tried to run xbmc. Here I can see several errors, which i can't manage to log to a file I tried "xbmc > log", "`xbmc` > log" and even "echo `xbmc` > log" all to no avail, they print nothing in log. Checking the log file for xbmc shows no errors:

Code:

bash-4.1$ cat ~/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.log 
15:20:41 T:140147691894752 M:750964736  NOTICE: -----------------------------------------------------------------------
15:20:41 T:140147691894752 M:750948352  NOTICE: Starting XBMC, Platform: Linux (Slackware 13.1.0, 2.6.33.4 x86_64). Built on Jan 11 2011 (SVN:Unknown)
15:20:41 T:140147691894752 M:750948352  NOTICE: special://xbmc/ is mapped to: /usr/share/xbmc
15:20:41 T:140147691894752 M:750948352  NOTICE: special://xbmcbin/ is mapped to: /usr/lib64/xbmc
15:20:41 T:140147691894752 M:750948352  NOTICE: special://masterprofile/ is mapped to: /home/howard/.xbmc/userdata
15:20:41 T:140147691894752 M:750948352  NOTICE: special://home/ is mapped to: /home/howard/.xbmc
15:20:41 T:140147691894752 M:750948352  NOTICE: special://temp/ is mapped to: /home/howard/.xbmc/temp
15:20:41 T:140147691894752 M:750948352  NOTICE: The executable running is: /usr/lib64/xbmc/xbmc.bin
15:20:41 T:140147691894752 M:750948352  NOTICE: Log File is located: /home/howard/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.log
15:20:41 T:140147691894752 M:750948352  NOTICE: -----------------------------------------------------------------------
15:20:42 T:140147691894752 M:750874624  NOTICE: Setup SDL

So I tried to turn on debuggging via the advancedsettings.xml file:

Code:

bash-4.1$ cat ~/.xbmc/userdata/advancedsettings.xml 
<advancedsettings>
	<loglevel hide="false">2</loglevel>
</advancedsettings>

This doesn't change the log file at all. I also tried to change the session to xbmc from the gdm login manager (right before I enter my user data) Again this just restarts X back to the gdm login manager. Any ideas what's going wrong, or where I can find more info?

ponce · 01-11-2011, 02:43 PM

xbmc is not a desktop manager: I launched it inside lxde or kde sessions, it simply run full screen by default.

I guess the problem you got could be probably related to graphics drivers, as xbmc uses sdl/opengl.

TheCrow33 · 01-11-2011, 03:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ponce

xbmc is not a desktop manager: I launched it inside lxde or kde sessions, it simply run full screen by default.

The problem you got could be probably related to graphics drivers, as xbmc uses sdl/opengl.

Alright well thanks for the correction there. I'm using the free radeon driver, which does have DRI enabled. SDL is installed, and I even went the extra mile and installed the SDL_* packages on slackbuilds.org. Any thoughts?

ponce · 01-11-2011, 03:14 PM

try launching it in a terminal redirecting standard error too

Code:

xbmc > /tmp/xbmc.log 2>&1

so you should have a log after X crash (but have a look also at /var/log/Xorg.0.log after).

linuxs64 · 01-11-2011, 03:46 PM

Are you using compiz? I've compiled both xbmc-9.11 and -10.0 yesterday on slackware/gsb-current and launched without problems.

xbmc-9.11 slackbuild
- disable-external-ffmpeg
- disable-external-libraries

TheCrow33 · 01-11-2011, 04:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by linuxs64

Are you using compiz? I've compiled both xbmc-9.11 and -10.0 yesterday on slackware/gsb-current and launched without problems.

xbmc-9.11 slackbuild
- disable-external-ffmpeg
- disable-external-libraries

I just installed all the compiz packages from the gsb repos and restarted the comp, then used the compiz-Gnome session when gdm launched. Again tried to run xbmc and the same thing happened once again.

Also I tried "xbmc > /tmp/xbmc.log 2>&1" to find an empty /tmp/xbmc.log file once again.

linuxs64 · 01-11-2011, 04:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheCrow33

I just installed all the compiz packages from the gsb repos and restarted the comp, then used the compiz-Gnome session when gdm launched. Again tried to run xbmc and the same thing happened once again.

Also I tried "xbmc > /tmp/xbmc.log 2>&1" to find an empty /tmp/xbmc.log file once again.

Try to run xwmconfig and select 'xinitrc.gnome', which is without compiz.
rename ~/.xbmc and try again.

TheCrow33 · 01-11-2011, 05:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by linuxs64

Try to run xwmconfig and select 'xinitrc.gnome', which is without compiz.
rename ~/.xbmc and try again.

same old story, crashes x. This was the window manager I was originally running (before trying compiz gnome).

Don't know if I mentioned this, but Xorg.0.log doesn't give any helpful info about the crash