Switching back to OSMC after a year :(

General Discussion
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:frowning_face:

Originally I don’t even remember what were the issues which made me switch to LibreElec back then but my Libre was working flawlessly for the last year or so for playing movies, slideshowing pictures and listening music, all of this from NFS.

But then one day I thought I would need TFTP server for something else and I couldn’t add it to that stripped down linux so I have prepared the latest OSMC on an identical brand SDCard to give it a shot again on my Raspberry PI 3 :rofl:

Unfortunately after about half an hour I already made up my mind that this would be a significant step back rather than step forward.

The very first h264 movie I started crashed kodi and it was restarted, movies which played ok on Libre are sluggish, the default menu is completely sluggish and the feature I got used to from the Confluence skin that when you watch a movie you can already browsing your directories for another one while it is running in the background is gone. The structure of the default browsing itself is unusable compared to the long list format.

Then there is the issue with the NFS, when I started copying big files to my NFS server the movies just got aborted, when I started them they resumed from the position tho. This just never happened with Libre with the exact same hardware.

Also that small blue progress indicator looks very ugly compared to Libre’s confluence.

[ 1183.443543] VideoPlayer invoked oom-killer:
gfp_mask=0x14080c0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO), nodemask=(null),
order=0 , oom_score_adj=0
[ 1183.443558] VideoPlayer cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0
[ 1183.443576] CPU: 2 PID: 1356 Comm: VideoPlayer Tainted: G
C 4.14.34-1-osmc #1
[ 1183.443579] Hardware name: BCM2835
[ 1183.443601] [<80116fe0>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<80111410>]
(show_stack+0x20/0x24)
[ 1183.443612] [<80111410>] (show_stack) from [<80945b28>]
(dump_stack+0xc8/0x10c)
[ 1183.443623] [<80945b28>] (dump_stack) from [<80282f34>]
(dump_header+0xb0/0x224)
[ 1183.443633] [<80282f34>] (dump_header) from [<802824d8>]
(oom_kill_process+0x308/0x5b8)
[ 1183.443641] [<802824d8>] (oom_kill_process) from [<80282ae8>]
(out_of_memory+0x124/0x458)
[ 1183.443650] [<80282ae8>] (out_of_memory) from [<8028e2f0>]
(__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x12fc/0x1470)
[ 1183.443659] [<8028e2f0>] (__alloc_pages_nodemask) from [<802ca9c4>]
(__pte_alloc+0x38/0x180)
[ 1183.443670] [<802ca9c4>] (__pte_alloc) from [<802cf7ac>]
(handle_mm_fault+0xef8/0xf98)
[ 1183.443681] [<802cf7ac>] (handle_mm_fault) from [<8096960c>]
(do_page_fault+0x370/0x3fc)
[ 1183.443691] [<8096960c>] (do_page_fault) from [<809697a0>]
(do_translation_fault+0x108/0x124)
[ 1183.443700] [<809697a0>] (do_translation_fault) from [<8010123c>]
(do_DataAbort+0x4c/0xc8)
[ 1183.443708] [<8010123c>] (do_DataAbort) from [<80968d44>]
(__dabt_usr+0x44/0x60)
[ 1183.443712] Exception stack(0xade11fb0 to 0xade11ff8)
[ 1183.443718] 1fa0: 34500000
00021000 00000003 75a236e0
[ 1183.443724] 1fc0: 00021000 34500000 00000000 00000028 348fffd8
00000050 34800000 fff00000
[ 1183.443730] 1fe0: 000000c0 657f6448 75987d8f 75987d94 680f0030 ffffffff
[ 1183.443733] Mem-Info:
[ 1183.443745] active_anon:175712 inactive_anon:2411 isolated_anon:0
active_file:326 inactive_file:1286 isolated_file:0
unevictable:0 dirty:2 writeback:0 unstable:0
slab_reclaimable:1772 slab_unreclaimable:2232
mapped:339 shmem:2467 pagetables:608 bounce:0
free:4757 free_pcp:0 free_cma:1633
[ 1183.443754] Node 0 active_anon:702848kB inactive_anon:9644kB
active_file:1304kB inactive_file:5144kB
unevictable :0kB isolated(anon):0kB
isolated(file):0kB mapped:1356kB dirty:8kB writeback:0kB shmem:9868kB
writeback_tmp:0kB uns table:0kB
all_unreclaimable? yes
[ 1183.443766] Normal free:19028kB min:16384kB low:20480kB high:24576kB
active_anon:702848kB inactive_anon:9644kB a
ctive_file:1304kB inactive_file:4724kB unevictable:0kB writepending:8kB
present:786432kB managed:764748kB mlocked:0 kB
kernel_stack:1136kB pagetables:2432kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:0kB
local_pcp:0kB free_cma:6532kB
[ 1183.443768] lowmem_reserve: 0 0
[ 1183.443776] Normal: 1014kB (UMEC) 1318kB (UMEC) 7616kB (UMEC)
4632kB (UMEC) 2364kB (UMEC) 8128kB (UME) 12
56kB © 1512kB (E) 11024kB (E) 12048kB © 2*4096kB (UC) = 18668kB
[ 1183.443826] 4092 total pagecache pages
[ 1183.443829] 0 pages in swap cache
[ 1183.443833] Swap cache stats: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0
[ 1183.443835] Free swap = 0kB
[ 1183.443838] Total swap = 0kB
[ 1183.443841] 196608 pages RAM
[ 1183.443843] 0 pages HighMem/MovableOnly
[ 1183.443845] 5421 pages reserved
[ 1183.443848] 2048 pages cma reserved
[ 1183.443851] [ pid ] uid tgid total_vm rss nr_ptes nr_pmds
swapents oom_score_adj name
[ 1183.443871] [ 166] 0 166 5858 261 9
0 0 0 systemd-journal
[ 1183.443878] [ 197] 0 197 3279 158 8
0 0 -1000 systemd-udevd
[ 1183.443885] [ 206] 0 206 1471 82 8
0 0 0 rpcbind
[ 1183.443891] [ 215] 0 215 1428 71 7
0 0 0 systemd-logind
[ 1183.443897] [ 217] 106 217 1399 101 7
0 0 -900 dbus-daemon
[ 1183.443903] [ 229] 0 229 858 42 5
0 0 0 irqbalance
[ 1183.443910] [ 248] 108 248 1353 116 6
0 0 0 avahi-daemon
[ 1183.443916] [ 250] 0 250 2255 167 9
0 0 0 connmand
[ 1183.443922] [ 252] 0 252 495 26 4
0 0 0 eventlircd
[ 1183.443928] [ 262] 108 262 1322 76 6
0 0 0 avahi-daemon
[ 1183.443934] [ 278] 110 278 495 17 5
0 0 0 vnstatd
[ 1183.443940] [ 292] 0 292 712 84 5
0 0 0 mediacenter
[ 1183.443948] [ 296] 1000 296 1929 124 7
0 0 0 udisks-glue
[ 1183.443954] [ 335] 0 335 6721 162 11
0 0 0 udisks-daemon
[ 1183.443960] [ 338] 0 338 2145 132 9
0 0 -1000 sshd
[ 1183.443968] [ 339] 0 339 2046 92 8
0 0 0 udisks-daemon
[ 1183.443974] [ 342] 0 342 9045 249 13
0 0 0 polkitd
[ 1183.443980] [ 356] 0 356 1433 114 7
0 0 0 sudo
[ 1183.443986] [ 357] 1000 357 290230 173312 437
0 0 0 kodi.bin
[ 1183.443992] [ 382] 0 382 1962 88 7
0 0 0 wpa_supplicant
[ 1183.443998] [ 420] 0 420 386 23 5
0 0 0 hciattach
[ 1183.444005] [ 425] 0 425 1424 52 6
0 0 0 bluetoothd
[ 1183.444012] [ 560] 105 560 1783 134 8
0 0 0 ntpd
[ 1183.444016] Out of memory: Kill process 357 (kodi.bin) score 908 or
sacrifice child
[ 1183.444137] Killed process 357 (kodi.bin) total-vm:1160920kB,
anon-rss:692996kB, file-rss:252kB, shmem-rss:0kB
[ 1183.529319] oom_reaper: reaped process 357 (kodi.bin), now
anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB
[ 1184.213209] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 170x48
[ 1199.122995] Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x30

After couple of more crashes, black screens and other bugs I said this project needs to be scrapped again :frowning:

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Hi @freebsduser,

if your thread has the only intention to get rid of some frustration but you do not expect/want to get help: Thx and good-by.

Otherwise, open a separate topic for each single issue you have in the Raspberry Pi group. We would like to see senseful information to understand your situation means logs are mandatory:

To get a better understanding of the problem you are experiencing we need more information from you. The best way to get this information is for you to upload logs that demonstrate your problem. You can learn more about how to submit a useful support request here.

So, in summary:

  • activate the logging
  • reboot the OSMC device
  • reproduce the issue
  • upload the log set either using the Log Uploader method within the My OSMC menu in the GUI or the ssh method invoking command grab-logs -A
  • publish the provided URL from the log set upload, here

We hope that we can help you get up and running again shortly.

Since this is not a helpful topic for anyone, I’m closing this. Feel free to open new ones for single problems in the right category group with required information. Thx for your understanding.

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It’s pretty clear that your device is running out of memory. A log would have told us why.

Anyway – if LE works for you, just use that. If you want OSMC to work, then provide a log in a new thread.