Stuck in boot loop

[Marv_newPi]

Hi

Yesterday I added the openvpn addon and activated it, it never worked giving an error that something went wrong and to check logs. I left it as is and kids carried on watching a movie.

This morning when trying to access the system it gets to the home screen for a few seconds, “PVR manager starting” message comes up and then the system reboots (sad face comes up).

I managed to activate debugging in the few seconds before the system reboots: https://paste.osmc.tv/binaquzeci

Please can someone assist?

Marvyn

[Tom_Doyle]

Hi,

It sounds like the new openvpn addon may causing you and issue, to resolve without re-imaging you will need access to the command line:

Accessing the command line - General - OSMC

The easiest thing is to just reset the kodi config and then reinstall addons:

sudo systemctl stop mediacenter 

mv ~/.kodi ~/.kodi.bak

sudo systemctl start mediacenter

What openvpn addon were you trying to install?

Thanks Tom.

[Marv_newPi]

Thanks for the response Tom.

@Tom_Doyle

What openvpn addon were you trying to install?

PureVPN

[Marv_newPi]

So an update from my side… I just managed to deactivate the IPTV Simple Client addon as I suspected it may be this addon causing an issue. Now I am out of the boot loop but I’m quite confused as to why that addon would cause it because I changed nothing to do with it, and last night was watching via that just fine.

[Tom_Doyle]

Hi,

You IPTV provided may have increased the number of channels. I would uninstall the pureVPN addon for now and re-enable simple IPTV and if it crashes again; you will need to speak to your IPTV provider about a reduced channel set.

Thanks Tom.

P.S

You could enable vpn from the command line, this topic is a good overview:

Confusion over VPN client setup

I run most recent version of OSMC and had PIA VPN server set up as proxy though the GUI trusting that this meant OSMC has been connecting to internet via PIA servers and hiding my traffic. Now, thanks to a letter from my ISP, I am not so sure anymore as to what GUI proxy setting does and reading various guides and threads on the subject, mainly from couple of years ago, I got completely confused on the subject. Could someone please explain: has OSMC a build in module to set up a VPN client a…

Its for private internet access, but instructions for should work with purevpn; with little change. for example change:

sudo wget --no-check-certificate https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/openvpn/openvpn.zip

to

sudo wget --no-check-certificate https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/heartbleed/linux/linux-files.zip

These are the openvpn files provided by purevpn:

https://support.purevpn.com/openvpn-files

Thanks Tom.