Sad Face - every boot

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Hmm, my Pi 2 has been sitting quietly for a week or so. Thought I would fire up the TV and check things out. Pi seemed to be running (based on LEDS) but the screen was black. I did a reboot.
The OSMC splash screen shows up, then I get the sad face screen. After 10-15 seconds, the screen blanks, then back with another sad face. This goes on for around 2-3 minutes.

I can ssh in just fine, did a sudo journalctl - saw some errors about not being able to start GUI. Everything else seemed fine.

So, I did an apt-get update; apt-get dist-uprade. The dist-upgrade loaded a newer version. Did the reboot - same sad face and cycle. I did a shutdown. Took the SD card and put it into a Linux server. Did an fsck -f on both boot and /root. No problems reported…

I also tried to rename /home/osmc/.kodi to /home/osmc/.kodi.old. Reboot. .kodi re-created - but still sad face.

Here is the grab-logs -A output:

http://paste.osmc.io/igewarezuw

I would really prefer not to reformat and reinstall. I have the plex media server and a custom button based shutdown script installed. I can re-install both - just a bit time consuming :wink:

Any recommendations would be appreciated.

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Don’t install Qt5 like that. OSMC offers its own QT5 BSP

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Your crash is being caused because you have indirectly installed the following generic OpenGLES libraries:

ii  libegl1-mesa:armhf                    10.3.2-1+deb8u1                   armhf        free implementation of the EGL API -- runtime
ii  libegl1-mesa-dev:armhf                10.3.2-1+deb8u1                   armhf        free implementation of the EGL API -- development files
ii  libegl1-mesa-drivers:armhf            10.3.2-1+deb8u1                   armhf        free implementation of the EGL API -- hardware drivers

According to your apt history.log these were installed as a dependency when you ran the following command:

apt-get install qt5-default qtmultimedia5-dev qtscript5-dev qt5-qmake libmediainfo-dev zlib1g-dev libzen-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libpulse-dev

I suspect that they are a dependency of qt5-default. You will need to purge these packages, for example:

sudo apt-get purge qt5-default libegl1-mesa libegl1-mesa-dev libegl1-mesa-drivers

I would do an autoremove afterwards for good measure:

sudo apt-get autoremove

You can’t have those mesa-gl libraries installed on the Pi as they are a software OpenGL ES implementation which is not compatible with Kodi and prevents Kodi making use of the Pi’s hardware acceleration.

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Ahh, Sam and Simon you guys are great! I did indeed play around with MediaElch. It didn’t have a Raspberry Pi version so I downloaded the development tools and did make.
It was the one that pulled in all the qt5 stuff.
I had not done a reboot for quite some time. So, it appeared to not effect OSMC.

I have done the apt-get purge and autoremove.
No more sad face!
Thanks again for the investigative work.