Yaourt update -> Kodi crashes at start

[iegubkin]

Has anyone else rebuilt kodi-rbp after the C++ ABI change and gotten a libcec error when starting kodi?

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '/usr/lib/kodi/kodi.bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libcec.so.3.0: undefined symbol: _ZN11StringUtils6FormatEPKcz')
Thinking this might also be the result of the C++ ABI change, I tried to rebuild libcec (libcec-rpi 3.0.1-2). This didn't work however. I received this error:
https://github.com/Pulse-Eight/libcec/issues/115
This fix was made just after the libcec 3.0.1 release

By the way, libtorrent was also bitten by this ABI change although it could be successfully rebuilt.

[moonman]

FYI: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=9600
Libcec is easy to rebuild, the main problem is the abi change in gcc 5.3 packages vs kodi will crash if built with gcc > 5.1.
For now downgrade tinyxml package from cache. Hopefully no other package you need depends on it.

[iegubkin]

Thanks moonman. I'm not sure I got the gist of the discussion you pointed to. To get a working kodi again one would need to go back to tinyxml-2.6.2-3 and freeze its updates?

EDIT (22:24) Downgraded, froze, rebooted and everything looks to be working. At least kodi is running now. Little hard to tell much more from 8500 km away at this time of day.

[ILMostro]

Grrr...Seems this occurred after a recent upgrade; unfortunately, Pacman has no "history" feature.

[iegubkin]

For those of you who don't have a copy of tinyxml-2.6.2-3 take a look at the new Archlinux ARM Rollback Machine:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'cd /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
pacman -U tinyxml-2.6.2-3-armv7h.pkg.tar.xz')

Archlinux ARM Rollback Machine:
http://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=9542

[hissingshark]

Hi, an -Syu this week killed kodi-rbp and my personal emulationstaion build.

I got the same errors for both regarding "Alignment trap". I did a clean install as I was going to anyway, but same trouble as obviously the updates are the same. I thought with the rolling release nature of arch that a pre-built package like kodi would be ok, but clearly I've misunderstood that.

I successfully recompliled kodi-rpb this morning but got the "symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libcec.so.3.0:" on execution.

@iegubkin thanks for the rollback supplies!!
As per the advice I've rolled back to tinyxml-2.6.2-3, but this did not fix it for me. Instead on execution kodi goes all core-dump on me. Odd I'm getting different behaviour than you. Do I need to recompile kodi-rbp again now that I've rolled back TinyXML or should the current package have worked?

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As per the advice I've rolled back to tinyxml-2.6.2-3, but this did not fix it for me. Instead on execution kodi goes all core-dump on me. Odd I'm getting different behaviour than you. Do I need to recompile kodi-rbp again now that I've rolled back TinyXML or should the current package have worked?

[hissingshark]

OK, well I've had time for a recompile and that's no better. In fact, it failed with references to TinyXML!

It looks like changes are beginning to be made in the repo anyway as installing kodi-rbp with pacman now yields when executed:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '/usr/bin/kodi: line 165: 13987 Bus error (core dumped) "$LIBDIR/${bin_name}/${bin_name}.bin" $SAVED_ARGS
Crash report available at /home/pi/kodi_crashlog-20151217_144307.log
/usr/bin/kodi: line 165: 14001 Bus error (core dumped) "$LIBDIR/${bin_name}/${bin_name}.bin" $SAVED_ARGS
Crash report available at /home/pi/kodi_crashlog-20151217_144308.log
/usr/bin/kodi: line 165: 14015 Bus error (core dumped) "$LIBDIR/${bin_name}/${bin_name}.bin" $SAVED_ARGS
Crash report available at /home/pi/kodi_crashlog-20151217_144308.log
/usr/bin/kodi --standalone has exited uncleanly 3 times in the last 3 seconds.
Something is probably wrong
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[iegubkin]

@hissingshark What is working for me is previous tinyxml (2.6.2-3) and the current kodi-rbp (15.2-1)

[iegubkin]

Rebuilding doesn't look promising. Yesterday the package maintainer, moonman, wrote on another thread:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')ell, looks like kodi is doomed for now. It has to be rebuilt for the new ABI with GCC 5.3, but it has problems accessing databases (crashes) if built with GCC >= 5.2