All,
[Up front: I have searched and searched the forums... read read and read for a solution... but can't find one.]
I am relatively new to XBMC, however, I am loving the program so far. There have been issues... and some are more anoying than others.
First, I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and the repository xbmc (Eden, 11.0). I am using the Xeebo skin and had recently fount the watchlist enabled home page for next episodes. I loved that. I was rocking along quite well with my system. Finally got the finicky remote reprogrammed to work with Ubuntu and XBMC. Then, the other day, I read a post about other XBMC repositories.... that is where the problems began.
I installed other repositories and several addons. Most were service oriented (ie: Hulu, Fox, etc...). During this process, I started to have error messages appear. Failure for certain scripts to run. Most obvious is the script.watchlist failure which always shows when I go to my main page of Xeebo. I thin disabled a lot of plugins. Nearly all of the new ones (except Free Cable, Hulu, etc...). That did not work. I also removed repositories that I had nothing installed from -- also to no solution. I also did some searches online to find solutions.
The searches did not yield a solution for me. I still received the error messages for script.watchlist and quite a few other plugins were failing for streaming services. It did show that others had issues similar to mine or exactly like mine and no one appeared to find a solution that I read.
Excerpt from xbmc.log:
Also, a lot of script.video plugins fail.
I have also "reinstalled" XBMC from repository. I have tried replacing the librtmp.so.0 with one I found posted online (swithced back to repository installed version when that didn't work). I have ensured that I do not have XBMC 12 version of script.
My bottom line questions:
a. How do I fix this issue? It doesn't look as if the source of the problem is just the script.watchlist addon because other things are broke and have same source (simplejson / json). It is possible that a plugin changed something fundamental that resulted in my ystem being broke... I do not know where to look at this point.
b. If I can't fix the issue, what happens if I delete the .xbmc folder (actually move to alternate name)? If I do that, can I move it back to original name to restore my current DB and settings? In linux, doing this is results in restoration to "first run" therefore I think this is a possibility of means to get back to default.
c. Is there some kind of repository versioning to ensure that one doesn't get files for other versions that won't work in my version of xbmc? How do I know which addons are for my version? Until it appeared like a plugin can fundamentally break my system, I figured it was "try and uninstall if doesn't work".
I greatly appreciate ideas and suggestions.
Respectfully,
ARMC
[Up front: I have searched and searched the forums... read read and read for a solution... but can't find one.]
I am relatively new to XBMC, however, I am loving the program so far. There have been issues... and some are more anoying than others.
First, I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and the repository xbmc (Eden, 11.0). I am using the Xeebo skin and had recently fount the watchlist enabled home page for next episodes. I loved that. I was rocking along quite well with my system. Finally got the finicky remote reprogrammed to work with Ubuntu and XBMC. Then, the other day, I read a post about other XBMC repositories.... that is where the problems began.
I installed other repositories and several addons. Most were service oriented (ie: Hulu, Fox, etc...). During this process, I started to have error messages appear. Failure for certain scripts to run. Most obvious is the script.watchlist failure which always shows when I go to my main page of Xeebo. I thin disabled a lot of plugins. Nearly all of the new ones (except Free Cable, Hulu, etc...). That did not work. I also removed repositories that I had nothing installed from -- also to no solution. I also did some searches online to find solutions.
The searches did not yield a solution for me. I still received the error messages for script.watchlist and quite a few other plugins were failing for streaming services. It did show that others had issues similar to mine or exactly like mine and no one appeared to find a solution that I read.
Excerpt from xbmc.log:
Code:
22:52:05 T:3014707904 NOTICE: Starting XBMC (11.0 Git:Unknown), Platform: Linux (Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS, 3.2.0-35-generic-pae i686). Built on Apr 24 2012Code:
22:52:14 T:3014707904 ERROR: XLCDproc::Connect - Unable to connect to host, LCDd not running?
22:52:14 T:3014707904 ERROR: XLCDproc::Initialize - Connect failed. Retry in 8 seconds.
22:52:15 T:2910845760 ERROR: Error Type: <type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>
22:52:15 T:2910845760 ERROR: Error Contents: 'module' object has no attribute 'loads'
22:52:15 T:2910845760 ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/arick/.xbmc/addons/script.tv.show.next.aired/default.py", line 452, in <module>
NextAired()
File "/home/arick/.xbmc/addons/script.tv.show.next.aired/default.py", line 98, in __init__
self.update_data()
File "/home/arick/.xbmc/addons/script.tv.show.next.aired/default.py", line 142, in update_data
self.scan_info()
File "/home/arick/.xbmc/addons/script.tv.show.next.aired/default.py", line 171, in scan_info
if not self.listing():
File "/home/arick/.xbmc/addons/script.tv.show.next.aired/default.py", line 206, in listing
json_response = simplejson.loads(json_query)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'loads'
22:52:17 T:2894060352 ERROR: Error Type: <type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>
22:52:17 T:2894060352 ERROR: Error Contents: 'module' object has no attribute 'loads'Code:
22:52:18 T:2894060352 ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/arick/.xbmc/addons/script.watchlist/default.py", line 592, in <module>
Main()
File "/home/arick/.xbmc/addons/script.watchlist/default.py", line 33, in __init__
self._fetch_info()
File "/home/arick/.xbmc/addons/script.watchlist/default.py", line 56, in _fetch_info
self._fetch_movies()
File "/home/arick/.xbmc/addons/script.watchlist/default.py", line 78, in _fetch_movies
json_response = simplejson.loads(json_query)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'loads'Also, a lot of script.video plugins fail.
I have also "reinstalled" XBMC from repository. I have tried replacing the librtmp.so.0 with one I found posted online (swithced back to repository installed version when that didn't work). I have ensured that I do not have XBMC 12 version of script.
My bottom line questions:
a. How do I fix this issue? It doesn't look as if the source of the problem is just the script.watchlist addon because other things are broke and have same source (simplejson / json). It is possible that a plugin changed something fundamental that resulted in my ystem being broke... I do not know where to look at this point.
b. If I can't fix the issue, what happens if I delete the .xbmc folder (actually move to alternate name)? If I do that, can I move it back to original name to restore my current DB and settings? In linux, doing this is results in restoration to "first run" therefore I think this is a possibility of means to get back to default.
c. Is there some kind of repository versioning to ensure that one doesn't get files for other versions that won't work in my version of xbmc? How do I know which addons are for my version? Until it appeared like a plugin can fundamentally break my system, I figured it was "try and uninstall if doesn't work".
I greatly appreciate ideas and suggestions.
Respectfully,
ARMC
