Kodi -> Gear menu -> System crashes

[Avamander]

I just wanted to check out what Kodi looks like but for some reason it crashes when I launch it, press the Gear icon and from there "System" option. If I should report this in Kodi repository then please do let me know and I'll do so.

The error that gets printed to terminal is:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'fmt::v5:format_error'
  what(): invalid type specifier
/usr/bin/kodi: line 219: 4064 Aborted ${KODI_BINARY} $SAVED_ARGS
Crash report available at /home/demouser/kodi_crashlog-[crash date and time].log

The crash log does not contain a stacktrace because gdb is not installed, if it's required I can do so.

[sakaki-]

I'm away from my workstation right now, so can't check this - could you try downgrading kodi and see if the error persists? These will be binary package installs so hopefully not time-consuming. Try:

demouser@pi64 ~ $ sudo emerge -av1 =media-tv/kodi-18.0_rc4

to drop back from rc5 to rc4, and if the problem is still there, then:

demouser@pi64 ~ $ sudo emerge -av1 =media-tv/kodi-17.4_rc1

to go back a major version. Once done,

demouser@pi64 ~ $ sudo emerge -av1u media-tv/kodi

will get you back up to date again.

BTW, you can see the available versions with:

demouser@pi64 ~ $ eix media-tv/kodi

although not all will have binary packages available. To see which do, look on the binhost (in this case, https://isshoni.org/pi64pie/media-tv/)

Can you play media files (movies, audio) from kodi OK?

Thanks!

[sakaki-]

Kodi has just been bumped to 18.0 (non-rc) and the "gear" -> "system" operation seems to be working now. Just run sudo genup to get it (or wait for the weekly autoupdate to do this for you).

Closing now (as a fixed upstream issue I think) but please re-open if still not functional once you get the upgraded version.

Thanks for reporting this!

Best, sakaki

[Avamander]

Thank you for testing this, I've been a bit busy and that's why I hadn't tested this myself. I'll try updating and check how it works.