Raspberry PI 4 Kodi - Error: Unable to create gui. exiting

[graysky]

Several options for cases with fans. Do you have a spare uSD card? What if you put the base image on it, install kodi-rbp4 and modify /boot/config.txt for kodi, enable kodi service and reboot. Does it work?

[Kallestofeles]

I ended up getting the armor case for pi4 to get the cooling done and it works wonders. Dropped the idle from 75-80 to around 45-50 which is pretty great.
Unfortunately I was hoping to make the full install onto the USB stick, but as pi4 doesn't support that yet due to the new architecture, then I had to split it up and make boot onto my last uSD card and root onto the USB device. I will get another uSD card at some point for another pi and I will try to remember to post the results (unless life happens and my next project would post-pone).
I did test with this same uSD card though, to have the full image running off the same card without any usb dongles attached, yet the result was the same. Maybe it's the specific pi unit, maybe it's the uSD card. When I get another card, I'll let you know if the results were any different. Plus my friend will get a pi4 soon as well and plans on making an arch arm server on it, so I will discuss this with him as well and if I find anything, I'll notify.
Thanks again!

[ivanjan]

I just run pacman update on my rbp4 and am getting this same issue.
It was working fine before that.
Anybody else experiencing this?

[ivanjan]

Solved the issue.
For some reason the new kernel update linux-raspberrypi4-4.19.80-1-armv7h was not working. My NFS server was also failing due to missing nfsd modules.

Solution is to temporarily downgrade the kernel:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/linux-raspberrypi4-4.19.79-1-armv7h.pkg.tar.xz')

[graysky]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ivanjan', 'S')olved the issue.
For some reason the new kernel update linux-raspberrypi4-4.19.80-1-armv7h was not working. My NFS server was also failing due to missing nfsd modules.

Solution is to temporarily downgrade the kernel:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/linux-raspberrypi4-4.19.79-1-armv7h.pkg.tar.xz')

[moonman]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ivanjan', 'S')olved the issue.
For some reason the new kernel update linux-raspberrypi4-4.19.80-1-armv7h was not working. My NFS server was also failing due to missing nfsd modules.

Solution is to temporarily downgrade the kernel:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/linux-raspberrypi4-4.19.79-1-armv7h.pkg.tar.xz')

[ivanjan]

Ugh, Boot was not mounted, thanks!

[Jpdur]

hello, I'm new to raspberry.
i tried to load kodi into manjaro and i had the same problems as you.
on the other hand when I try the solution I get back: impossible to read or find the package.
could you tell me what to do ?

[giga]

Same issue here. Kodi does not launch. Tried different things explained in this thread without success. Relevant lines from Kodi log:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '182 2019-12-23 22:52:17.302 T:2976088080 WARNING: CDRMUtils::FindPlane - could not find plane
183 2019-12-23 22:52:17.303 T:2976088080 WARNING: CDRMUtils::InitDrm - failed to set drm master, will try to authorize instead: Permission denied
184 2019-12-23 22:52:17.303 T:2976088080 NOTICE: CDRMUtils::InitDrm - successfully authorized drm magic
185 2019-12-23 22:52:17.844 T:2976088080 NOTICE: Found resolution 1280x720 with 1280x720 @ 59.940063 Hz
186 2019-12-23 22:52:17.844 T:2976088080 NOTICE: Found resolution 1024x768 with 1024x768 @ 60.000000 Hz
187 2019-12-23 22:52:17.844 T:2976088080 NOTICE: Found resolution 800x600 with 800x600 @ 60.000000 Hz
188 2019-12-23 22:52:17.844 T:2976088080 NOTICE: Found resolution 800x600 with 800x600 @ 56.000000 Hz
189 2019-12-23 22:52:17.844 T:2976088080 NOTICE: Found resolution 848x480 with 848x480 @ 60.000000 Hz
190 2019-12-23 22:52:17.844 T:2976088080 NOTICE: Found resolution 640x480 with 640x480 @ 60.000000 Hz
191 2019-12-23 22:52:17.844 T:2976088080 ERROR: failed to get EGL display (EGL_SUCCESS)
192 2019-12-23 22:52:17.844 T:2976088080 FATAL: CApplication::Create: Unable to init windowing system')

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[graysky]

@giga - post the output of:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'cat /etc/os-release
pacman -Qs linux-ra
pacman -Qs kodi')