First time out here, been running Kodi on OpenElec for many months and had no issues, until the crashes started. Seemed like It would freeze at random times and only way to get out of this was to pull power. decided to move to OSMC and really like it but am running into the same issues. I get it all setup, libraries connected, shows and movies and music and weather add on…all works great. Then system freezes. Have rebuilt the SD card (and tried 2 different ones too) with same results.
After the crashes and reboots, i am in a constant blue screen sad face loop.
Today I had the system running great again, no freezing. i decided to see if i could power down gracefully and reboot and then i get the crashes again. So even with a nice shutdown I am hosed.
General setup info:
Raspberry Pi 2
8GB SD card (also working with a 64GB SD card with same issue)
WD MY Cloud NAS 6TB media storage - connects fine with Windows SMB
Updated to the latest OSMC before any extra configuration
Using the xPerience 1080 skin (Really love this skin, hoping it is not a skin issue)
Wireless connection (although wired possible…no difference if i use one or the other)
Been using Win32 Disk Imager to format the SD card and put on the disk image, i notice that that program only creates a 256MB boot partition and leaves the rest of the SD card open. not sure if files get dumped there in the background, but Windows cannot read them.
Creating a new SD card with the Windows tool on this site now so maybe that will have an impact.
Since the system is in a boot loop i cannot ssh into it to get log files. And I cannot see any logs on the disk when i remove it and put it in a Windows system.
Any ideas where i am going wrong here? Does anyone have a recommended skin that works well, maybe it is a skin issue, but not sure how to tell.
Well all what you say and the point that more than one OS is impacted points to either a not supported SD card (actually which brand are you using) or a issue with the power supply (is it strong enough and do you have good cable?)!
The boot partition is a FAT32 256M partition which is readable by windows. During the initial install (first time booting in RPi) the rest of the SD Card will be formated with EXT4. This partition will not be visible in windows (you would need to use a Live Linux to read it or other tools that allow EXT filesystem under Windows).
As written above first check power supply and SD Card. Allways if you have problems first switch back to either the default OSMC skin or Confluence and see if that solves the problems.
To see what is really going wrong enable debugging and provide logs after crash.
To get a better understanding of the problem you are experiencing we need more information, including logs from you. Please see How to submit a useful support request - General - OSMC for advice on how to help us.
Thanks for the info here. Using Samsung Evo SD card, has stock power supply that came with RPi2. Will look for logs if issue becomes unmanageable, but i did find a decent workaround. Realized SSH was still responsive, so every time i get a freeze, i simply login and reboot via SSH. No issues since i found that little tip. Much appreciated.
While this surely should not be your path forward as you should find the reason for the freeze you actually, if you can ssh in, don’t need to reboot but just can do
