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MatthewLundberg · (This post was last modified: 2017-10-30, 16:04 by MatthewLundberg.)

I just pulled master. It builds fine but when it runs, there is absolutely no text anywhere. I'm using Confluence. Is there something broken, or did I do something wrong? I've never seen anything like this with Kodi before.

MatthewLundberg · 2017-11-02, 06:34

Just to be sure, I cloned the repo anew, configured and built. Again, the code builds and runs, but I have no text anywhere. Only icons are visible. It is not usable in this state.

I'm using Fedora, pulling dependencies from rpmfusion. Is nobody else seeing this behavior?

**Rechi** · 2017-11-02, 11:21

Post a Debug log (wiki).

MatthewLundberg · (This post was last modified: 2017-11-05, 21:17 by MatthewLundberg.)

Of course, sorry about that. I am not sure that debug is enabled -- I can't see ANY text labels. If not, I will need to go back to a prior revision where text is visible and enable it, then run the latest code again.

Here's the output: https://pastebin.com/3kx77zsn

Debug log was not enabled. I built the code from August 30 and the text is present, making it much easier to enable debug logging. Here's the resulting log:

https://pastebin.com/7T67YhN5

MatthewLundberg · 2017-11-05, 21:32

I ran again with the August 30 code, so I could compare the output to the later master branch (pulled a few days ago). The same action was performed: Start Kodi, look for presence/absence of text labels on the main screen, and exit. I removed the timestamps from both files with 'cut' and ran a diff -u. Here is the diff output:

https://pastebin.com/eQGFr4xr

Nothing really stands out, other than the version of skin.estuary going from v2.0.4 to v2.0.6.

MatthewLundberg · 2017-11-12, 06:27

I was figuring that it was something with my setup that was doing this, because otherwise it would have been noticed by someone else (and fixed!). I configured another machine to build Kodi, and I do not see the problem.

The offending machine is a Dell D620 which uses Intel integrated graphics. "lspci" reports "945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML" as the display controller. I may try to do a binary search to see when the labels went away, if I get the time. Problem is, it takes an hour to build Kodi on this old machine. The newer machine builds from scratch in five minutes, but it needs a newer graphics card to actually run properly (it has an ancient GTS 250). That's coming in the mail.