I’m not sure this applies to you, since “the same problem” could cover several possible cases, but there was a partial workaround provided a few days ago for devices that aren’t connected to HDMI: Headless Pi boot failure - #3 by fzinken
It’s partial in the sense that it only works for (no-HDMI) headless devices where the Kodi GUI isn’t required.
Not sure if this reply was intended for me, but my pi4 is connected by HDMI to a monitor and is intended to be used always connected to a screen/TV. I can ssh to it, so would be happy to access it and paste any logs that are necessary to identify the problem.
The generated log was about 37Mb because of a lot of repeated lines in the Kodi Old Log section. So I deleted about 30k repeating lines and uploaded it manually : https://paste.osmc.tv/asoviwazux
[ the following section was repeated and I deleted the lines between Aug 25 and Aug 26:
2021-08-25 13:33:28.334 T:482 INFO <general>: CActiveAESink::OpenSink - initialize sink
2021-08-25 13:33:28.334 T:482 ERROR <general>: CActiveAESink::OpenSink - no sink was returned
2021-08-25 13:33:28.334 T:481 ERROR <general>: ActiveAE::InitSink - returned error
2021-08-26 08:47:26.645 T:482 INFO <general>: CActiveAESink::OpenSink - initialize sink
2021-08-26 08:47:26.645 T:482 ERROR <general>: CActiveAESink::OpenSink - no sink was returned
2021-08-26 08:47:26.645 T:481 ERROR <general>: ActiveAE::InitSink - returned error
TBH, the log shows no EDID information, so it’s probably the same issue as others have been seeing, though the use of a monitor has confused the issue a bit.
Sam has produced a kernel fix that you might wish to try out.
I’d suggest you wait a bit until the gateway 502 problem has been fixed.
Still no hdmi output (I get a blue screen with the OSMC logo at boot and then everything goes blank. The monitor then complains of no signal on HDMI input).
Any update on this? My rpi4 is a spare one so I can test things out if needed. Would be happy to run test builds and so on - though at the moment I don’t have the setup to compile osmc myself.
I have Rpi3B+, new OSMC installation and try get it working with composite video. The blue OSMC logo displays fine as some startup texts, but then display turns black (if unplug AV-cable get ‘No signal’, so it’s actually sending black). On HDMI cable it works just fine. I did the buster-devel update instructed above, it installed 5.10.60-2-osmc. I can connect with SSH, tvservice reports PAL display which is correct. I can also connect with web-browser on HTTP-address. My logs at: https://paste.osmc.tv/nexahireco
What would you instruct me to look at?
tvservice -s
state 0x80001 [PAL 4:3], 720x576 @ 50.00Hz, interlaced
I burn older OSMC version “2020.11-1” to SD-card, and now composite video works fine (otherwise the same setup). Only had to set sdtv_mode=2 (European PAL).
Long time user/lurker of OSMC - thanks to Sam and the team for everything they do! Just tried to install the latest Pi4 image and I’m getting the blank screen/no HDMI output issue as other folks. Is there any update on this?
I have not been able to SSH onto my device, but I put the drive into another Linux machine I have and pulled off the kodi.log - hope it helps…
