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jackh

Hello, hope someone can help here. I've been happily running Kodi v19.5 on this Linux Mint 21.1 machine, always kept up-to-date just fine.
Recently upgraded to v20 and now Kodi crashes on start, crash log here: https://paste.kodi.tv/izujaqiqad.kodi

The worst part is that being careful I took a Timeshift snapshot before the upgrade, so when this was not working I restored the snapshot hoping it all would go back to the way it was. So while v19.5 was restored the Netflix addon now fails (it was working just fine before) saying InputStream Adaptive is incompatible with the running Kodi version. So now I'm stuck with either a v19.5 that half works (no Netflix) or v20 that won't start.

Tried a few different ways to rollback InputStream Adaptive alone but Kodi still complains of incompatibility. But I'd prefer to fall-forward and just get v20 to work.
It actually worked just fine for me on another similar Linux HTPC, Netflix addon included, happily running Kodi v20 there.
WAF is at risk! Tongue

Thank you!!

**basilgello** · 2023-02-01, 22:15

Is it team ppa release? You likely have GL broken. glxinfo?

jackh

(2023-02-01, 22:15)basilgello Wrote: Is it team ppa release? You likely have GL broken. glxinfo?

Yes, I am using team-xbmc ppa directly from the OS.
I don't know about the rest -please consider my linux and scripting skills are limited

Edit: is this what you are asking for? https://paste.kodi.tv/peduhiqace

jackh · 2023-02-04, 20:38

For the record, further googling and burning brain cells yielded some (discouraging) news: I found bug #22921 was recently filed which describes my issue perfectly, as I am running the exact same platform, hardware, drivers and get the same error.
Unfortunately, the last message there (as of this writing) says: "Anyone running into this that wants to downgrade to 19.5" and there are instructions on how to do that.

Additionally I tried a fresh OS + Kodi v20 install. As soon as I added the legacy proprietary nvidia drivers Kodi crashed on start again, same error in crashlog.

I have not had the time to test the downgrade to 19.5 yet, but at least I can confirm I'm not crazy.

yasij · 2023-02-05, 01:12

How did you install the Nvidia 340 driver? Nvidia dropped support for it at the end of 2019, and Ubuntu doesn't carry it in the jammy repository as a result.

Debian sid does have a patched version, but the current revision of it seems to have a broken patch: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepor...ug=1029681 .

jackh · 2023-02-05, 19:28

(2023-02-05, 01:12)yasij Wrote: How did you install the Nvidia 340 driver? Nvidia dropped support for it at the end of 2019, and Ubuntu doesn't carry it in the jammy repository as a result.

Debian sid does have a patched version, but the current revision of it seems to have a broken patch: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepor...ug=1029681 .

Ah yes, that was one of my early frustrations. Having a perfectly good piece of hardware but they dropped support. Luckily I found a repository that made the drivers available:
https://launchpad.net/~kelebek333/+archi...dia-legacy

Code:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kelebek333/nvidia-legacy

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt install nvidia-340 xorg-modulepath-fix 

...and then reboot.

But while this solves the ability to use that nice old GPU on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (or derivatives: in my case Linux Mint 21), it only works fine with Kodi v19.5. As soon as I upgraded to v20, Kodi crashes. Hence this thread Sad

I'll keep an eye on that bug I mentioned earlier, but I guess time will tell.