Broken OSMC

Help and Support
1

Hello evrybody, Hello Sam!

I have been using OSMC for quite a long time and I am very happy. I have unfortunately done some manipulations including the installation of “deluge”. I ended up doing updates with the commands “sudo apt-get update”, “sudo apt-get upgrade” and “sudo apt-get dist-upgrade”. I then realized that OSMC was not starting anymore (as well as medusa -> fork of sickrage) --> “Process: 2023 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/medusa start (code=exited, status=2)” . I do not know if it has a link but I prefer to indicate it too.
Since then, I have access to raspberry via SSH but more on the screen (a sad smiley is displayed), without error messages …
Can you help me?

Thank you in advance!!!

2

If you have SSH access, please run grab-logs -A and let us know the URL it returns.

3

Hello dillthedog,

Thx for your help.
Voilà the result : https://paste.osmc.tv/otivuqoqer

4

It looks like your SD card might have become read-only.

To test if this is indeed the case, run:

touch ~/testzzz
ls -l ~/testzzz
reboot

Then logon again and see if the file is still there.

5

Hi,

It seems like your SD card may be problematic.

Some SD cards are not genuine or have a lower capacity than advertised. Some simply fail over time.

Symptoms of SD cards not working correctly are:

  • Read-only behaviour, or changes made not persisting
  • A filesystem corruption error

Symptoms of counterfeit SD cards are:

  • Writing works until a certain filesystem size is reached, thereafter, writes seem to cause issues where existing data is lost or newly written data is not preserved.
  • SD card fails after a short amount of time.

Counterfeit cards are usually found on Amazon and eBay.

SD cards have a limited lifespan. I recommend you change SD card and suspect that issues will no longer persist with a good card. If you would like to be a good quality SD card purpose manufactured for OSMC, then you can find one in the Store.

6

Hello !

After reboot : osmc@osmc:~$ sudo ls -l ~/testzz
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 4 08:02 /home/osmc/testzz
The file is still here but I used sudo to create it.

@Sam the sd card is good quality. Are you sure that is the problem ?

7

Either your SD Card is or you have other corruption

Jan 03 22:24:26 osmc mediacenter[433]: Could not init logging classes. Log folder error (/home/osmc/.kodi/temp/)
Jan 03 22:24:26 osmc mediacenter[433]: ERROR: Unable to create application. Exiting

What is ls --lah /home/osmc/.kodi/ giving you?

8

Hello!

The corruption arrived just the same moment than my update (“sudo apt-get update”, “sudo apt-get upgrade” and “sudo apt-get dist-upgrade”)? :open_mouth:

I got :

osmc@osmc:~$ ls --lah /home/osmc/.kodi/
ls: unrecognized option '--lah'
Try 'ls --help' for more information.
osmc@osmc:~$ sudo ls --lah /home/osmc/.kodi
ls: unrecognized option '--lah'
Try 'ls --help' for more information.

Can I fix it?

9

I reformatted output using the </> key. You can now see that you used a double-dash instead of a single dash with ls -lah.

10

The directory is empty. All directorys and files in /home/osmc :

osmc@osmc:~$ sudo ls -lah /home/osmc/.kodi
ls: cannot access /home/osmc/.kodi: No such file or directory

I don’t know why :confused:

11

What does ls -la /home/osmc show?