Posts by paulus

Wondering whether the gods are against me and I should just throw in the towel? I am running up problems unseen by others with no apparent solution.

Firstly, using BH XBMC refuses to work, says it's out of memory - but WHAT memory. HD and flash are both fine! Problem posted but not resolved, see:-
http://linuxsat-support.com/showthread.php?t=97862

Secondly, now even the android player refuses to show anything on my Solo2. Again no apparent solution, see:
http://linuxsat-support.com/showthread.php?t=103232

I feel that one by one I am losing facility on the Solo2 and wondering whether I should just ditch it.

I have been using the player for a long time without issue, but now a problem! Openwebif works fine from my PC, I can open (on an android device) Vu+ Player HD, I can go into settings>EPG or Channel list etc. and everything works fine. However, once I go into View a channel I immediately get Channel list "Loading...." and a message of "Please Try again Later". I have power cycled my Solo2, I have deleted and reinstalled the Vu+ PlayerHD - but still the same (not very helpful) message. Any ideas?

I have been struggling for over a month with my solo2 and a couple of threads have not resulted in any progress. The problem is mainly XBMC with Genesis (the only addon of interest) which either freezes when trying to navigate a selection menu or returns "no stream available" or just returns back to the menu after no action. If I install Genesis from the Linuxsat Support Addon I get nothing found in most selections and selecting "Box office by year" the next menu gives me 1969 and earlier!! Trying to install from the Lamda repository I get "incompatible" - dependencies missing or file corrupted.

Having reflashed many times, including going back to BH2.1.6 the results (with XBMC) are always the same. Freezing requires a hard power cycle to recover. I have also tried flashing the official image first - no better. Assuming it must be hardware, in discussion with Vu+ UK, I have paid to have the motherboard replaced - but exactly the same!! Appearing not to be a hardware problem, nor an image problem, I am completely stumped and frustrated that everyone else reports "mine works fine". I have attached yesterday's log file, but have no experience in understanding it. Can anyone determine from it what might be going on?

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Just to add some more info; XBMC on BH2.1.6, 2.1.7, and 3.0.1 all freeze with exactly the same symptom. I only have one addon (Genesis), /.xbmc is on my HDD and there is a folder /usr/share/xbmc which has a number of folders of the same name to those in/.xbmc on the HDD. When I load a fresh image XBMC in menu/system/system information reports that "memory used" is ~25%. I have no idea what this is measuring. Within 24 hours (just configuring and loading epg in USB with picons) the "memory used" as XBMC sees it gradually climbs until it records 100% - but never goes down again. Henceforth any attempt to navigate menus in Genesis causes the screen to freeze, judder, no response to remote, and power cycle the only way out.

I believe it is the "memory used" at 100% that is causing my problem. However, flash remains constant ~70-80% depending on image, and swap file is never used.

Is my file structure the same as everyone else's?
What is XMBC measuring as "memory used"?
And how do I get mine to work like everyone else's?

Any answers and/or help would be most appreciated

Or until they go bust, cease trading, change their name, or any of the other ways out of a lifetime guarantee!

Do you use the method shown in http://linuxsat-support.com/showthread.php?t=79730&p=260730? I never get an "update all option" and when I "update from zip" the status msg at the bottom RH screen shows "Addon does not have the correct structure". Just trying to get Genesis to work in XBMC - when installed by MasterG's installer in the Linuxsatsupportaddon no links are ever shown (they used to be) and clicking on any movie/series/TV etc rather than give a list of sources I just get a "no available source" message in the bottom RH screen. Any ideas would help.

Has anyone managed to install any additional repositories in their XBMC system (Black Hole image)? Everyone I have tried XBMC reports "Addon does not have the correct structure".

Been using this backup very successfully, but now having problems with XBMC. Only using Genesis and Navi-X, but with both XBMC will get into a fit of guddering from which there is no escape other that hard power cycle. This usually happens while stepping through menus. Tried all the usual; reloaded image, deleted .xbmc folder from HDD and let XBMC reinstate it - all to no avail, gudders continue. Any ideas??

No, that's just a list of installed plugins which are either enabled or disabled (presumably on power up to speed the process). I don't know where the system plugins are hiding now!?!

With you all the way . . until BH feeds plugins - on selecting that I get a list of plugins NOT "system plugins" and neither of my missing ones are in that list.

Since upgrading to BH 2.1.7.1, when I press menu/plugins I get a message that some plugins are not available; SystemPlugins/Blindscan and SystemPlugin/HDMICEC. I have noticed that I seem to green screen more than usual when using TSmedia and wonder whether this could be the problem. Are these important and if so how do I install them?

thanks mckee25 - that sorted it, moved the picon folder to USB and now flash down to 77%.

Regarding the flash problem - I too have flash running at 99%. Tried deleting LiveFootball (seemed to be the largest App) and made no difference to the flash at all. The other thing I was thinking is that in this image the picons are in flash. How do I move them to USB to see if that frees up some flash? I know I can drag the folder but do I need to do anything else to inform the system of where they are?

Thanks guys - know exactly what to do now - job for the morning. Thanks again!

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Sorry guys - back at square 1!!

Deleted the xbmc folder on the HDD, reflashed with mckee25's backup, only mounted the HDD and USB and set the network, and immediately XBMC failed to open. No new folder has been created on the HDD nor in flash (if I understand "flash" correctly - ie the folders I see when ftp'ing from VCC). Now at a loss - any idea??

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Having forced showing hidden files I find that the HDD has an xbmc folder AND a .xbmc folder. Deleting the .xbmc folder XBMC now loads fine and has recreated the .xbmc folder (on the HDD) - just need to reload all the add-ons.

Problem solved (I think). Thanks guys.

mckee25 - I have an XBMC folder in my HDD with 8 sub-folders. Should all be deleted? Secondly, the BH2.1.7 I have been using was (your) backup posted on this site. If I delete these folders can I install my own updated backup or do I need to revert to your backup? When you say I should backup folders - are you talking about the 8 sub-folders on the HDD? but surely one of them may contain the corrupt file?

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davvo - sorry I have no way of selecting the correct enigma2 crash log as explained. My XBMC folders are on the HDD and using VCC there is not an XBMC folder in the top level file structure (/autofs - /var) am I therefore correct in that it is not a flash but a n HDD problem?

I have no idea why I keep screwing up fixing an attachement

I keep getting fooled by log files not uploading. Sorry attached here.

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Or even here!!

davvo some of the enigma2 crash logs for some reason are dated 1970?? I have attached the highest number crash log hope its the correct one, but the XMBC crash log above is the correct one. I can also confirm that reinstalling a working BH2.1.5 backup also has XBMC failing now.

Re-flashed and XBMC works fine, unfortunately tailored the image (network, permenanttimeshift, cams etc) and XBMC has stopped working again!!! Nothing added that wasn't there before and it worked fine for a time. Any help?

Sorry log file missed on first post - hopefully attached here.

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Further info. I have discovered that XBMC fails AFTER I have mapped the HDD and USB stick. Prior to that XBMC opens but with no add-ons, once the HDD and USB are mapped then XBMC just fails. So I expect that some file or other on the HDD is probably corrupt and causing the problem. So going back to 2.1.5 (my last working backup) probably won't work either sonce it looks like a re-flash does not effect the HDD files??

Recently updated to BH2.1.7 - everything (seemingly) working well. Daughter was using XBMC and experienced a green screen. Since restart whenever you select XBMC it returns to the Addons Screen (green button). Have done the usual power on/off etc. but still the same. Any ideas - crash log attached.

Back to regular mediaplayer since mediaplayer2 did not provide a solution. Reference h t t p ://kodi.wiki/view/Aspect_Ratio it would appear that "stretch" is the default in Kodi - see "Aspect ratio is not kept - the image will be stretched so that it exactly fits the box. (default value)" this obviously is the issue, but in BH I have no idea how to set the alternative parameters ie keep looks the most relevant. Anyone know how to do this - these parameters are not available anywhere XBMC's system settings.