Kodi keeps on crashing after updating to Buster (Vero 4k)

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After updating and rebooting, all I see is the Sad Face for a couple of seconds. It then reloads and crashes again. I can’t actually get into the Kodi UI.

Note that I was previously testing a Wireguard enabled kernel – I don’t know if that matters.

root@osmc:/etc/apt# cat sources.list.d/backports.list
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main
root@osmc:/etc/apt# cat sources.list
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ buster/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://apt.osmc.tv buster main
deb http://apt.osmc.tv videoimprovevero main

root@osmc:/var/log# apt update && apt full-upgrade
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.debian.org buster/updates InRelease
Hit:3 http://ftp.debian.org/debian buster InRelease
Hit:4 http://ftp.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease
Hit:5 http://ftp.fau.de/osmc/osmc/apt buster InRelease
Hit:6 http://ftp.fau.de/osmc/osmc/apt videoimprovevero InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Kodi log: https://paste.osmc.tv/tidedagaki
all logs: https://paste.osmc.tv/ranadohuza

Any idea what’s going on here?

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Yes, you have RetrOSMC installed.

Give this a read:

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Also, update your /etc/apt/sources.list per the top of the testing 4.9 kernel thread.

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Thanks for the reply.

I don’t know what RetrOSMC is but…

root@osmc:/etc/apt# apt remove x11-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package 'x11-common' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

dpkg -l also does not show anything related to x11.

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My bad, you didn’t have it installed, I mis-read the log. @grahamh has the correct solution.

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Thanks.

Changed to

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ buster/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://apt.osmc.tv buster main
deb http://apt.osmc.tv videoimprovevero49 main

And ran the updater and rebooted. This fixed the problem and Kodi is running again.

Is there a way to get rid of the testing kernel stuff as I do not need it at this stage (was only needed for Wireguard stuff). Can I remove deb http://apt.osmc.tv videoimprovevero49 main and will that go back to stable (once stable version is higher than whatever testing version is installed)?

Thanks

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No, for now you have to leave the testing kernel as that’s what gives you the 4.9 kernel. If you remove that, you won’t get 4.9 updates. If you revert to the older kernel (and you really can’t do that) you’d lose Wireguard.

I’ve been using 4.9 for months, and it’s very stable for me. You shouldn’t worry about being on 4.9.

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