Black Screen of death after SFTP copying Advancedsetting.xml

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First,
AWESOME JOB GUYS!!!
Much improvement from RaspBMC: Clean, faster and nit!

Second,

  1. I installed OSMC, everything is working great and fast.
  2. Used WinSCP to upload the advancedsettings.xml, passwords.xml, sources.xml to the .kodi/userdata from my old Raspbmc installation which I backed up.
  3. Black screen on boot.
  4. I renamed all the files and re-booted - everything works again.

Is it because Kodi cannot find the IP addresses listed in the xml files? (i’m doing it at work).

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What did you rename the files to/from ?

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just added few chars before the original name (2322advancedsettings.xml etc.) so it won’t be considered.

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My kodi will freeze and sometimes time out when the sql server info is wrong.

check the log files.

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In WinScp go to /home/osmc/.kodi/ then right click on .kodi>properties it should be group/owner osmc permissions 755 IMPORTANT PART: check set group/owner recursively then OK If you still have problems after reboot check /home/osmc/.kodi/temp/kodi.log and /home/osmc/.kodi/temp/kodi.old.log see what they say

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all is there, but setting this thing up at work so there is no connectivity to the IP’s listed in the files, maybe that’s the problem.

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nope, i’ve done the set group owner thing and renamed the advancedsettings.xml back to original - still black screen.
Deleted the file and it’s working again.

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Were you definitely on Helix on Raspbmc, string changes from XBMC to Kodi could have caused this issue

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what do you mean? what do i need to do to make this work…?
the advancedsettings.xml contains the SQL server ip

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for me this is the problem. If kodi don’t find the mysql server configured in advanced settings don’t start or appear after a lot of time, for me is not an osmc issue. I can reproduce the same issue both on ubuntu both on windows both on openelec if I shut down the mysql server during the boot up of kodi. But this is only my opinion

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Ok
So I got home, plugged the pi into the network and everything is working flawlessly.

I would suggest to fix the black screen, load up osmc and just give an error message that would indicate no SQL connectivity or something.

I restarted this thing so many times today because of the black screen that at the end it would burn something up…

Keep up the good work guys, the OSMC works 58744 times faster and much more clean than the raspbmc!
Love it!!!

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Hold on a sec, you were testing this in a location where you didn’t have access to the SQL server?

You could look in the logs…

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If you’d like to suggest that, I suggest that you suggest it on the Kodi forums where such suggestions can be seen by the developers of the software that doesn’t perform in a manner that you suggest that you expect. This is not an OSMC issue. Also, OSMC (or kodi for that matter) never suggested to configure a system in a location other than where it is intended to be used. Your use-case is outside of 99% use-cases.

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