UPnP / DLNA randomly stops working on Raspberry Pi 2

[farcus]

quick search of the forums shows this . . . . which seems to be the same issue.

UPnP/DLNA not working

Alright, so after full 2 days of screwing with this bug, trying every possible combination of options, rebooting my rpi 100+ times, restarting configs, etc etc… I can proudly say I finally made some progress, and figured out the cause of this problem. So, I noticed that if I rm -r .kodi and restart rpi, then go to settings and check “Allow remote control via UPnP” (because its disabled by default), everything mysteriously works correctly. So, then I copied back my old .kodi folder back and s…