[packman] Kodi 21 - crash

[Manfred Hollstein]

On Mon, 08 Apr 2024, 20:24:54 +0200, Eric Schirra wrote:
> Am 8. April 2024 19:36:01 MESZ schrieb Manfred Hollstein <manfred.h at gmx.net>:
> >> Okay.
> >> Now I have libass9 from packman.
> >> Kodi can now be started.
> >> 
> >> But that's it.
> >> No sound.
> >
> >What type of sound device are you using? 
> 
> Pulseaudio. No pipewire. Pipewire makes problems.
> 
> It works for me on an onboard
> >sound (Dell and Intel), and via HDMI. Are you sure it works in other
> >applications? Sound is not muted?
> 
> No. Amarok and other apps works well.
> 
> >> Addons no longer work. No ARD or ZDF mediathek.
> >
> >Works for me!
> >
> >> No Prime addon either.
> >
> >Sorry, that's not supported at all.
> 
> Work all under 21.

I thought you were saying it doesn't work?

> >> Would say that 21 is not yet "mature".
> >
> >Perhaps you should have joined the "Kodi: Want to test the upcoming
> >release Omega 21?" 
> 
> I do a normal update. And then Kodi will also update. 
> Normal.
> Should I now control all packages and block some? I don't think this is the right way.
> One possible could be to make an extra package for kodi20, kodi21 and so on.

Kodi 20 is no longer supported - not by us, nor by upstream. It's really
a rolling application, although it takes a long time to actually roll...

> . In addition you could enable debugging output in Kodi and have
> >a look at ~/.kodi/temp/kodi.log. When you find something in there,
> >please let us know.
> 
> Perhaps I will try.

I'm sure this will help! Again, it surely depends on your concrete
environment, but without any details...

> [...]
> I guess I have no choice but to switch back to Flatpack.
> But what I hate.
> 
> Or do you still have the old spec and other files, then I would build it myself again?

You can get that directly from PMBS: 

  https://pmbs.links2linux.org/package/revisions/Multimedia/kodi

> Regards
> Eric

Cheers.

l8er
manfred
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