Three minute freeze when playing any video

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Hey everyone

Whenever I play a file in kodi, my Vero V freezes for about three minutes. Even the on screen logging informartion in the upper left corner is frozen. Doesn’t matter if it’s indexed library content, a video file selected through the file browser or a YouTube video – it’s always happening. In this log, I pressed play at around 20:23 and it actually started playing at around 20:26. Any idea why? I’m not that good at reading logs… but here it is:

https://paste.osmc.tv/zalecetibe

Thanks!

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Hi,

Let’s take a look.

I can see the delay for sure.

Embuary seems to be doing something in between this.

First easy things to check:

  1. Does temporarily changing skin (and rebooting help)?
  2. If you copy that Simpsons episode to local storage (the eMMC), does it resolve the issue? I ask because I did see an NFS timeout, but I’m not sure if that’s just Kodi recycling the connection after a long delay

Sam

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This is just a hunch, but if you ssh in and use the following does it clear the issue up?

rm -r ~/.kodi/temp
systemctl restart mediacenter
4

I tried both things but nothing changes. Deleting /temp did help however, see below!

5

Yes! It worked! Thanks so much!

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Hey everone, as I mentioned, deleting /temp/ solved the issue. However, the freezes/delays keep coming back (solved with another /temp/ delete). I noticed there’s ussually a bunch of OSMCBACKUP*.tar.gz files in /temp/ (deleting justs those solves the freezes too). I get a warning dialog that a backup failed from time to time but nowhere near often enough to explain the amount of abandonend (?) backup files in /temp/. The target for the OSMC tackups is on my NAS. The files copied in the last month or so all appear smaller than the files sitting in /temp/ (100-600 MB on NAS, 1.4 GB in /temp/).

On probably unrelated (?) note, my tv turns on sometimes spontaneously, could be because of a OSMC reboot/crash (?). I think I once witnessed an idling OSMC (nothing playing) with no user input at all throwing a sad face screen and rebooting, could be connected.

Anayway, are there any issues with OSMC Backup?

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Are the backups appearing on the NAS? Maybe something is disturbing that and the files get left over.

@anxdpanic can you check this?

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The files co appear but the file size doesn’t add up:

-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 1235889264 Sep 10 12:16 OSMCBACKUP_2023_09_10_12_07_00.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 1236132917 Sep 11 12:20 OSMCBACKUP_2023_09_11_12_06_59.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 1236687846 Sep 12 12:16 OSMCBACKUP_2023_09_12_12_06_59.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 1242353477 Sep 13 12:17 OSMCBACKUP_2023_09_13_12_06_59.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 1242353505 Sep 14 12:17 OSMCBACKUP_2023_09_14_12_06_59.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 1242353490 Sep 15 12:17 OSMCBACKUP_2023_09_15_12_06_59.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 1242378875 Sep 15 21:41 OSMCBACKUP_2023_09_15_21_28_04.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 1243250099 Sep 17 17:57 OSMCBACKUP_2023_09_17_17_51_46.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 1243352091 Sep 18 17:57 OSMCBACKUP_2023_09_18_17_51_46.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 1244495149 Sep 20 13:49 OSMCBACKUP_2023_09_20_13_43_15.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 1253278164 Sep 21 13:49 OSMCBACKUP_2023_09_21_13_43_15.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 1253428505 Sep 22 13:49 OSMCBACKUP_2023_09_22_13_43_14.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 1255872204 Sep 23 13:48 OSMCBACKUP_2023_09_23_13_43_15.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 1256039228 Sep 24 07:01 OSMCBACKUP_2023_09_24_06_55_46.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 1258139986 Sep 27 04:17 OSMCBACKUP_2023_09_27_04_09_07.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 1258304947 Sep 28 04:17 OSMCBACKUP_2023_09_28_04_09_06.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 1256988871 Sep 29 11:05 OSMCBACKUP_2023_09_29_10_59_41.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 1263011184 Oct 2 09:02 OSMCBACKUP_2023_10_02_08_54_43.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 1271260645 Oct 3 15:56 OSMCBACKUP_2023_10_03_15_46_30.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 1271296395 Oct 5 18:15 OSMCBACKUP_2023_10_05_18_07_08.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 1271294875 Oct 6 18:14 OSMCBACKUP_2023_10_06_18_07_07.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 1272074439 Oct 7 21:54 OSMCBACKUP_2023_10_07_21_46_52.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 1285287771 Oct 15 04:02 OSMCBACKUP_2023_10_15_03_56_24.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 1285381359 Oct 16 04:02 OSMCBACKUP_2023_10_16_03_56_23.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 1285030335 Oct 17 04:02 OSMCBACKUP_2023_10_17_03_56_23.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 1285199779 Oct 18 04:02 OSMCBACKUP_2023_10_18_03_56_24.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 1296400864 Oct 21 04:02 OSMCBACKUP_2023_10_21_03_56_23.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 432799744 Oct 22 04:53 OSMCBACKUP_2023_10_22_04_47_53.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 489684992 Oct 23 05:31 OSMCBACKUP_2023_10_23_05_24_35.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 261619712 Oct 24 19:47 OSMCBACKUP_2023_10_24_19_41_10.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 892600320 Oct 25 09:24 OSMCBACKUP_2023_10_25_09_17_17.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 182321152 Oct 26 15:58 OSMCBACKUP_2023_10_26_15_52_23.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 617480192 Oct 28 19:02 OSMCBACKUP_2023_10_28_18_55_53.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 667549696 Oct 29 23:29 OSMCBACKUP_2023_10_29_23_22_00.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 485490688 Oct 31 00:48 OSMCBACKUP_2023_10_31_00_41_59.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 364118016 Nov 1 08:42 OSMCBACKUP_2023_11_01_08_36_01.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 711327744 Nov 2 16:39 OSMCBACKUP_2023_11_02_16_33_26.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 729022464 Nov 3 04:50 OSMCBACKUP_2023_11_03_04_44_29.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 33423360 Nov 4 03:24 OSMCBACKUP_2023_11_04_03_18_51.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 289013760 Nov 5 11:01 OSMCBACKUP_2023_11_05_10_55_28.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 566755328 Nov 6 07:24 OSMCBACKUP_2023_11_06_07_17_24.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 557580288 Nov 7 18:56 OSMCBACKUP_2023_11_07_18_49_14.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 473300992 Nov 8 21:02 OSMCBACKUP_2023_11_08_20_56_48.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 302907392 Nov 9 19:00 OSMCBACKUP_2023_11_09_18_54_27.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 194248704 Nov 10 18:53 OSMCBACKUP_2023_11_10_18_48_08.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 622329856 Nov 11 00:13 OSMCBACKUP_2023_11_11_00_06_42.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 550502400 Nov 13 08:37 OSMCBACKUP_2023_11_13_08_31_08.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 816185344 Nov 14 09:53 OSMCBACKUP_2023_11_14_09_46_41.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 570163200 Nov 15 00:57 OSMCBACKUP_2023_11_15_00_50_16.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 557973504 Nov 15 23:42 OSMCBACKUP_2023_11_15_23_34_58.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 359268352 Nov 16 13:42 OSMCBACKUP_2023_11_16_13_34_52.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 345636864 Nov 17 04:03 OSMCBACKUP_2023_11_17_03_56_46.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 452853760 Nov 17 22:03 OSMCBACKUP_2023_11_17_21_57_05.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 Adrian staff 264896512 Nov 18 12:03 OSMCBACKUP_2023_11_18_11_56_27.tar.gz

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Can you try a manual backup? Check if it’s correct and if not, post some logs here so we can look for clues as to what’s going on

Many thanks

Sam

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Thanks for checking in on my problem, Sam! I started a manual backup. This resulted in a sad face/automatic reboot during the transfer phase (resulting in a 1.4 GB file in /temp/ aand aa 250 MB file on my NAS). Log file here.

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(This turned into a scavenger hunt, sorry about that.)

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I would try making a system mount for your backup location using autofs, changing the backup location to this mount point, reboot, and then try to backup again. If it goes through without crashing then I’d guess that would solve your issue.

On a side note, daily backups seem a bit excessive.

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